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Brunswick and Birmingham Railroad
Overview
Brunswick headquarters in the early 1900s
Dates of operation	1902–1904
Successor	Atlantic and Birmingham Railway
Technical
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge

The Brunswick and Birmingham Railroad (B&B) was a railroad in southeastern United States. Its main route ran from Brunswick, Georgia to Sessoms (just east of Nicholls, Georgia).

History

The Brunswick and Birmingham Railroad was chartered on December 11, 1900. In 1902–03, it built a 49-mile (79 km) line from Brunswick, Georgia to Offerman, Georgia and a 19-mile (31 km) line from Bushnell, Georgia to Ocilla, Georgia. The B&B purchased the Offerman and Western Railroad on July 1, 1902,^[1] and the Ocilla and Irwinville Railroad on February 19, 1903. The railroad ran into financial troubles and was purchased by the Atlantic and Birmingham Railway in April 1904.

The Atlantic and Birmingham then became part of the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad (AB&A) when it took over the A&B network on April 12, 1906.^[2]^[3] The Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad was acquired by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in 1926. The Atlantic Coast Line operated the AB&A network as the Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad (AB&C) until 1946, when they fully merged the AB&C into the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad.^[4] This gave the Atlantic Coast Line a second line to Brunswick (their first route to Brunswick was the former Brunswick and Western Railroad).

The segment of the line built between Brunswick, Georgia and Alma, Georgia was abandoned by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in 1953. The remainder of the line survived the 1967 merger of the ACL and Seaboard Air Line Railroad (SAL) to form the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad, and the acquisition of the Family Lines (CRR, L&N, GA, AWP) into the Seaboard System Railroad in 1982. The remaining segment was known as the Alma Subdivision.^[5] After the Seaboard System became CSX Transportation, the line between Sessoms and Alma was abandoned in 1986.^[6]

Current conditions

The railroad's former headquarters are today the Ritz Theatre in the Brunswick Old Town Historic District.

A small segment of the line in Brunswick south of Southern Junction is still in service and is part of CSX's Brunswick Subdivision (which primarily uses the former Brunswick and Western Railroad north and west of Southern Junction).^[7]

Much of the railroad's former right of way parallels State Route 32 and much of it is now a power line corridor.^[6]

Historic stations

Milepost	City/Location	Station^[8]^[7]	Connections and notes
AOB 532.0	Brunswick	Brunswick
AOB 538.0	Brunswick	Brunswick Yard
AOB 541.0		Southern Junction	junction with: Macon and Brunswick Railroad (SOU) Brunswick and Western Railroad (SF&W/ACL)
AOB 543.0		Greenland
AOB 544.4		Brobston
AOB 545.9		Buffalo
AOB 547.8	Anguilla	Anguilla
AOB 549.0		Leicht
AOB 551.2		Blunt
AOB 553.0	Thalmann	Thalmann	junction with Seaboard Air Line Railroad Main Line
AOB 555.7		Lott
AOB 559.1		Browntown
AOB 560.4		Old Grade
AOB 563.0		Fendig
AOB 566.0		Needmore
AOB 570.0	Hortense	Hortense	junction with Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Main Line
AOB 574.0		Giles
AOB 575.8	Zirkle	Zirkle
AOB 581.0	Offerman	Offerman	junction with Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Jesup—Folkston Line
AOB 585.0		Aspinwall
AOB 587.6	Bristol	Bristol
AOB 591.4		Woods
AOB 592.4	Mershon	Mershon
AOB 592.7		Bynum
AOB 594.6	Coffee	Coffee
AOB 599.5		New Lacy
AOB 602.1	Rockingham	Rockingham
AOB 605.4	Alma	Alma
AOB 606.1		Southern Pines
AOB 609.2		Guysie
AOB 613.0		Sessoms	junction with Waycross Air Line Railroad (AB&C/ACL)

References

^ Offerman & Western Railroad (RailGA)
^ Storey, Steve (September 14, 2018). "Railroads - Postwar Expansion and Consolidation". New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved August 8, 2021.
^ "Atlanta, Birmingham & Coast Railroad (GEORGIA'S RAILROADS, 1833-2015: Historic Context and Statewide Survey)" (PDF). Georgia Department of Transportation. Retrieved August 8, 2023.
^ "Wesley Thomas Hargrett collection". sclfind.libs.uga.edu. Hargrett Manuscripts and Russell Library Finding Aids. Retrieved August 8, 2021. The collection consists of the papers of Wesley Thomas Hargrett from 1889-1919. The materials pertain to business operations of various Georgia railway companies
^ Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Florence and Atlanta Division Timetable (1982)
^ ^a ^b Brunswick to Nichols (Abandoned Rails)
^ ^a ^b CSX Jacksonville Division Timetable (2005)
^ "Georgia Railroads: Passenger Stations & Stops" (PDF). The Branch Line Society. Retrieved August 1, 2023.

External links

Brunswick & Birmingham Railroad, Steve Storey, Georgia's Railroad History & Heritage
Brunswick & Birmingham Railroad Office, Steve Storey, Georgia's Railroad History & Heritage

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