Tag: Atlanta & West Point Railroad (A&WP)

Wikipedia says: The Atlanta and West Point Rail Road (reporting mark AWP) was a railroad in the U.S. state of Georgia, forming the east portion of the Atlanta-Selma West Point Route. The company was chartered in 1847 as the Atlanta and LaGrange Rail Road and renamed in 1857; construction of the 5 ft (1,524 mm) gauge[2] line was begun in 1849-50 and completed in May 1854. A large minority interest owned by the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company eventually passed under the control of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (ACL), which later acquired a majority of the stock.

These stations existed as of 1867.

Name: Miles/Kilometers – Notes

East Point: 7/11

Fairburn: 19/31

Palmetto: 25/40 – completed on March 17, 1851

Powells: 33/53

Newnan: 39/63 – completed on September 9, 1851

Grantville: 51/82 – completed on June 1, 1852

Hogansville: 58/93

LaGrange: 71/114 – completed in February, 1853

Long Cane: 80/130 – Off Long Cane Road

West Point: 86/138 – completed on May 15, 1854

Trains departed from Atlanta at 12:15PM and arrived there at 8:37AM. West Point was the connecting point further west via the Montgomery and West Point Railroad.