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Town Fork Creek Southern Railway Bridge (Germanton)
Photos
Southern most pier. Pier 1.
Photo taken by Royce and Bobette Haley in January 2016
BH Photo #348625
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Bridge over Town Fork Creek on Southern Railway
- Location
- Germanton, Stokes County, North Carolina
- Status
- Removed but not replaced
- Railroads
- - Atlantic and Yadkin Railway
- Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Railway
- Southern Railway (SOU)
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 40.0 ft.
Total length: 200.0 ft.
Deck width: 20.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +36.26855, -80.21693 (decimal degrees)
36°16'07" N, 80°13'01" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/570336/4014019 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Walnut Cove
- Inventory number
- BH 70715 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Comments
Town Fork Creek Norfolk and Western Railway Bridge (Germanton)
This Bridge was part of the Cape fear & Yadkin Valley Railroad Build in 1887. It later became the Atlantic & Yadkin and later the Southern Railway.
It was never part of the Norfolk & Western.
Ex Yadkin Valley Railroad Engineer
Town Fork Creek RR bridge
Need help here from the RR gurus. Feel free to add the RR name to bridge name as well.
Thank You Royce
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Ronald Bauguess,
Thank You for the information. I think I have made the appropriate changes. If you have the time look and see if it looks correct and definitely check out other bridges in the area for mistakes. Please feel free to correct anything you know to be wrong.
Royce