The Cheraw and Salisburg Railroad was a shortline railroad that ran between Cheraw, South Carolina, and Wadesboro, North Carolina. The Cheraw and Salisbury Company was originally incorporated by special charter in 1857 as the Cheraw and Coalfields Railroad.''Report of Cases Heard and Determined by the Supreme Court of the State of South Carolina'', 1870, Volume 2, page 25
/ref> At the company's 1869 annual meeting stockholders approved changing the name of the carrier to Cheraw and Salisbury. The carrier was originally charged with building a line between Cheraw and

Salisbury, North Carolina Salisbury is a city in the Piedmont region of North Carolina, United States; it has been the county seat of Rowan County since 1753 when its territory extended to the Mississippi River. Located northeast of Charlotte and within its metropolita ...

, a distance of approximately . The line began operation in 1868 and by the early 1870s, according to the 1873 American Railroad Manual for the United States and the Dominion, track had been laid between Cheraw and Wadesboro, a distance of . The Cheraw and Darlington Railroad acquired the Cheraw and Salisbury in 1892 for $90,000.''Cheraw and Darlington R.R. Company Proceedings, 1883-1897'', Cheraw and Darlington Railroad Company
/ref> The Cheraw and Darlington Railroad was acquired by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in 1898, which became part of their

Wadesboro—Florence Line The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad's Wadesboro—Florence Line (J Line) was one of the company's secondary main lines that ran from Florence, South Carolina north to Wadesboro, North Carolina. It was built in the late 1800s and large parts of it we ...

.Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Northern Division Timetable (1949)
/ref> The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad existed until 1967, when it merged with the Seaboard Air Line Railroad to form the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad. After several more mergers and consolidations, it is now part of

CSX Transportation CSX Transportation , known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Class I freight railroad operating in the Eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. The railroad operates approximately 21,000 route miles () of track. ...

. The line was abandoned in the 1970s.

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''Cheraw and Darlington R.R. Company Proceedings, 1883-1897'', Cheraw and Darlington Railroad Company
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cheraw and Salisbury Railroad Defunct South Carolina railroads Defunct North Carolina railroads Predecessors of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Railway companies established in 1868 Railway companies disestablished in 1892 1868 establishments in South Carolina 1868 establishments in North Carolina 1892 disestablishments in North Carolina 1892 disestablishments in South Carolina