N&W in 1911--New schedule

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
June 9, 1911

NEW SCHEDULE SUNDAY
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Two Trains Will be Added Between Gary and Bluefield
    Sunday morning the new train schedule will go into effect on the Norfolk and Western.  Two new trains will be added between Gary and Bluefield and the Pullman cars which now run between Gary and Philadelphia will run between Gary and New York city's [sic] new terminal station.
     There is no change in the schedule of trains Nos. 18, 4, 10, 16, 9, 15, 7, 3, 5, 12 or 6.  Train No. 1, with Pullman and diner, arrives fifteen minutes earlier and leaves twenty minutes earlier than at present.  No. 2 will leave Gary at 11:50 a. m. with Pullman and dinning car attached and arrive in Bluefield at 2:20 p. m., leaving for the eastern connections and New York city at 2:30 p. m.; No. 18 will leave Williamson at 6 a. m., arriving in Bluefield at 11:59 a. m..  No. 11 will leave for the Clinch Valley five minutes earlier than at present; No. 17, a new train will leave Bluefield at 7:20 p. m. arriving at Welch at 9:35 p. m., where it will await the arrival of No. 2, and then  go to Gary, arriving there at 10:50 p. m.
    Trains No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 15 and 16 are fast trains, all of which carry Pullmans and dining cars, and will make a speed not in excess of forty miles an hour, which is ten miles an hour slower than was permitted in former schedules, although forty miles has been the recognized limit for some time.
    All trains will connect with Pocahontas branch trains and all trains except No. 7 connect with trains for the Tug Fork branch, two trains each day running between Gary and Leckie and return.  Trains No. 5, 1, 17, 16 and 3 connect with trains for Bramwell at Bluestone Junction, and trains No. 13, 8, 2 and 10 connect for Bramwell at Coopers.
    Coalfield people wishing to come to Bluefield to shop at noon and return on No. 1 should catch train No. 8, as No. 1 will have left Bluefield when No. 2 arrives.  No. 2 formerly arrived about noon but now arrives at 2:20 p. m.
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[Some numerals were indistinct on the microfilm, but the best interpretation is shown.]

Gordon Hamilton
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