The Duck River Valley Narrow Gauge Railway was a

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railway Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

that connected the cities of Columbia, Lewisburg, and

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along the Duck River. Chartered on November 4, 1870, construction began from Columbia southward, with the line to Lewisburg opening in 1877. The railway fell into financial difficulty, and was leased to the

Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway The Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway was a railway company that operated in the U.S. states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia. It began as the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad, chartered in Nashville on December 11, 1845, ...

in 1879. It assumed full control of the line in 1888, and converted it to standard gauge.

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in Columbia was built to serve the line. Both it and the Belfast Railroad Depot are on the

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. The line between Columbia and Lewisburg closed in 1945 and between Lewisburg and Petersburg in 1961. Only a spur serving factories in Lewisburg remains. Parts of the route were used to build

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in Maury and

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counties.

1903 Poor's Nashville, Chattanooga and St

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Photos of remaining infrastructure from the lineMap of the line at abandonedrails.com
Defunct Tennessee railroads Predecessors of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Railway companies established in 1870 1870 establishments in Tennessee American companies established in 1870 {{US-rail-transport-stub