Last passenger train at Radford

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I believe the last regular passenger trains were 17 and 18 between Bristol
and Roanoke-Lynchburg and on to Washington, DC and beyond on 30 April 1971.
AMTRAK took over the next day, and the Bristol to Roanoke as well as the
Pocahontas Norfolk to Cincinnati trains were not included.  There were a lot
of newspaper accounts of the last trains on the N&W in the Bristol
Herald-Courier and Roanoke Times newspapers.  A Bristol newspaper account I
have in a photo album is a story by a reporter who rode on the last
eastbound that left Bristol that morning at 7 a.m.

Mike Jackson

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:15 AM, NW Mailing List
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>  Does anyone on the list have any information on the last scheduled

> passenger train through Radford?   How about any excursion trains through

> there in the 1969-1974 time frame?

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> The N&WHS has an inquiry for this information for a regional historical

> article.

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> Gary Rolih

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