N&W in 1907 -- Psgr. Service

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Train Service Subject of Discussion in Field
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    The passenger service afforded to the traveling public by the Norfolk and Western railway, was a topic much discussed in the coal fields yesterday.  This was occasioned by the annulment of train No. 8 Wednesday evening.  It is said that fully thirty passengers from the Crane Creek and Widemouth branches at Cooper, together with a large number from Pocahontas, wanted to get to Bluefield, but the railway officials would not send a train in because there was a wreck at Sands, about ninety miles away.  People all along the line from Northfork to Falls Mills wanted to come to Bluefield to attend the theatre and the railroad company was asked to run one of its short line trains in, but did not, although it continued to forward coal trains, and passengers were left to secure the best accommodations possible at the overcrowded hotels in the field.
    Such occurrences are very unfair to the traveling public.

Bluefield Daily Telegraph
January 18, 1907

[Regarding the wreck at Sands, the 1908 Annual Report mentions the 2.07 mile Popular Creek branch put into operation from a point one mile east of Sands, WV.to the Majestic Collieries Co.  A 1965 Coal and Coke Manual map shows a branch line from Cedar, WV up Popular Creek to Majestic, so it appears that Sands was a mile west of Cedar.]

Gordon Hamilton
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