Rural Retreat Depot

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I may have got some of this wrong ......... and no doubt many more intimate
and expert on and off this list will correct me (and Millie) :-)

Dominic
London



In fact the train station appears to have survived as a passenger station
almost to the Amtrak era which the Norfolk and Western Railway eschewed.

http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/lohmann-saving-the-old-train-station-in-rural-retreat/article_2a8647b8-e5bb-55f5-b789-4526159e8a82.html

Some pix athttp://spec.lib.vt.edu/imagebase/norfolksouthern/full/ns1183.jpeg

http://spec.lib.vt.edu/imagebase/norfolksouthern/full/ns1184.jpeg

<http://spec.lib.vt.edu/imagebase/norfolksouthern/full/ns1181.jpeg>
http://spec.lib.vt.edu/imagebase/norfolksouthern/full/ns1181.jpeg

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>  *From:* Dominic Pinto <zorro at btinternet.com>

> *To:* "mrothrock at wythenews.com" <mrothrock at wythenews.com>

> *Sent:* Friday, 27 September 2013, 23:21

> *Subject:* Rural Retreat Depot

>



> Dear Millie

>

> It's always a pleasure to read stories from SW Virginia and your piece on

> the RR station (note it was the Norfolk and Western Railway for most of

> it's life) is no exception.

>

> I rather fancy that it was in the 1860s not 1960s that Union troops burned

> down the old station:

>

> 'The railroad company was important to the South during The Civil War, so

> Union troops burned down the depot in 1964. Three years, later, it was

> rebuilt with Italianate style architecture.'

>

> And it was more the 1960s when the station closed as passenger service up

> and down the valley to/from Bristol survived just until Amtrak Day May 1st

> 1971. You may like to check with the Norfolk and Western History Society

> http://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/selectdocs.php?index=c&id=478 for the

> exact closure (to railway service) date.

>

> Best wishes

>

>

> Dominic

>

> Dominic Pinto

> London UK

> A member/supporter of both!

>

>

>

> http://www.tricities.com/swvatoday/news/wytheville/article_bec6e90c-27b4-11e3-9ff3-0019bb30f31a.html

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