1862 Train Schedule for Valdosta, GA

June 20, 2020 at 12:09 am (Atlantic & Gulf Railroad, Railroads, Savannah, Albany & Gulf Railroad)
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See Also: Neigh of the Iron Horse 

When the very first train rolled into the newly platted town of Valdosta, GA, the state newspapers reported the “neigh of the Iron Horse” was heard.  Valdosta was Station No. 15 on the Atlantic & Gulf Railroad and the first train, arriving on July 25, 1860, was pulled by the locomotive “Satilla.” Levi J. Knight, original settler at Ray City, GA, was instrumental in bringing the railroad to Lowndes County.

The Atlantic & Gulf, like railroads all over the south, was being built largely by the labor of enslaved African-Americans. The construction had commenced in 1859 at Tebeauville, GA. Three thousand people were at Valdosta for the Railroad Jubilee held there July 31, 1860, celebrating the arrival of the railroad.

By 1862, the regularly scheduled trains of the merged Atlantic & Gulf Railroad and the Savannah, Albany & Gulf railroad passed through Valdosta, GA daily. Valdosta saw four trains a day: eastbound passenger, eastbound freight, westbound passenger and westbound freight.

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CONFEDERATE STATES RAIL-ROAD & STEAM-BOAT GUIDE

CONTAINING THE

Time- Tables, Fares, Connections and Distances on all the
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1862 Train Schedule for the Savannah, Albany & Gulf "Main Trunk" Railroad serving Valdosta, GA

1862 Train Schedule for the Savannah, Albany & Gulf “Main Trunk” Railroad serving Valdosta, GA

SAVANNAH, ALBANY & GULF ROAD. 
Maj John Scriven, Pres't, . 
G. J. Fulton, Superintendent, Savannah Ga   

Savannah to Thomasville.       Ο{ October— }Ο    Thomasville to Savannah 
Pass   | Fr't.| Fare | Mls.|                   |Miles|Fare |  Frt |Pass
 a. m. | a.m. |      |     | Leave      Arrive |     |     | a. m.| p. m. 
 7 00  | 6 00 |      |     |......Savannah.....| 200 | 9 00| 5 05 |  6 00 
 7 44  |      |   50 |   9 |......Miller's.....| 191 | 8 60|      |  5 20
 8 25  |      | 1 00 |  16 |.......Way's.......| 184 | 8 10|      |  4 43 
 8 55  |      | 1 25 |  24 |......Flemming*....| 176 | 7 85|      |  4 16
 9 25  |      | 1 50 |  32 |......McIntosh.....| 168 | 7 60|      |  3 49
 9 55  |      | 2 00 |  40 |...Walthourville...| 160 | 7 10|      |  3 22
10 20  |      | 2 30 |  46 |......Johnson†.....| 154 | 6 80|      |  3 01
11 05  |      | 2 50 |  53 |.....Doctortown....| 147 | 6 50|      |  2 28
11 30  |      | 2 85 |  58 |.......Drady's.....| 142 | 6 15|      |  2 09
12 20  |      | 3 25 |  68 |.......Satilla.....| 132 | 5 75|      |  1 33
 1 00  |      | 3 65 |  77 |......Patterson....| 123 | 5 33|      |  1 02
 1 28  |      | 4 00 |  86 |.....Blackshear....| 114 | 5 00|      | 12 28
 2 30  |      | 4 50 |  96 |....*Tebeauville†..| 104 | 4 50|      | 11 50
 3 11  |      | 5 00 | 108 |......Glenmore.....|  92 | 4 00|      | 10 45
 4 03  |      | 5 75 | 122 |.....Homerville†...|  78 | 3 25|      |  9 54
 4 35  |      | 6 25 | 131 |.......Lawton......|  69 | 2 75|      |  9 22
 5 03  |      | 6 75 | 139 |......Stockton.....|  61 | 2 25|      |  8 54
 5 22  |      | 7 00 | 144 |.......Naylor......|  56 | 2 00|      |  8 35
 6 06  |      | 7 50 | 157 |......Valdosta.....|  43 | 1 50|      |  7 52
 7 30  |      | 8 00 | 174 |.......Quitman.....|  26 | 1 00|      |  6 52
 7 56  |      | 8 25 | 181 |.......Groover.....|  19 |   75|      |  6 04
 8 25  |      | 8 50 | 189 |.......Boston......|  11 |   50|      |  5 30
 9 00  |      | 9 00 | 200 |....Thomasville....|     |     |      |  5 00
 p. m  |      |      |     |Arrive        Leave|     |     | a. m.| p. m.

Connections. — At Savannah with Georgia Central (p56), and Charleston & Savannah Rail-Roads (p60).
At Thomasville with stages for Bainbridge, Chattahoochee and Tallahassee, Florida. The eventual terminus of this road is designed to be at some point on the Chattahoochee River. Bainbridge is on its route. Stations indicated by an asterisk (*) is where the train stops for Breakfast. Those by a dagger (†) for Dinner.
WARTHOURVILLE [Walthourville], a post-town in Liberty county, Georgia, forty miles South-west of Savannah, is the largest place in the county. It contains two flourishing academies, and about 400 inhabitants.
BOSTON, a post-town in Thomas county, Georgia, eleven miles south-east of Thomasville.
THOMASVILLE, a post-town, and capital of Thomas county, Georgia, two hundred miles from Savannah, and at present the terminus of the Savannah, Albany & Gulf rail-road. It contains a court-house which is creditable to the county, and a school called the Fletcher Institute, under the direction of the Methodists. Population about 600.

October 1862 Hill & Swayze Confederate States Railroad & Steamboat Guide - Comparative Time Table.

October 1862 Hill & Swayze Confederate States Railroad & Steamboat Guide – Comparative Time Table.

COMPARATIVE TIME-TABLE, Showing the Time at the Principal Cities of the Confederate States, compared with Noon at Richmond, Va. There is no “Standard Rail-Road time” in the Confederate States, but each rail-road company adopts independently the time of its own locality, or of that place at which its principal office is situated. The inconvenience of such a system, if system it can be called, must be apparent to all, but is most annoying to persons strangers to the fact. From this cause, many miscalculations and misconnections have arisen; which not unfrequently have been of serious consequence to individuals, and have, as a matter of course, brought into disrepute all Rail-road Guides, which of necessity give the local times. In order to relieve, in some degree, this anomaly in American rail-roading, we present the following table of local time, compared with that of Richmond, Va:

Atlanta, Ga..........................................11 30 A.M. 
Augusta, Ga..........................................11 43  " 
Beaufort, S. C.......................................11 49  " 
Charleston, S. C.....................................11 51  " 
Columbia, S. C.......................................11 44  " 
Fredericksburg, Va............,,,,,,.................12 00  " 
Galveston, Texas.....................................10 01  "  
Griffin, Ga..........................................11 29  "  
Huntsville, Ala......................................11 23  "  
Jackson, Miss........................................11 10  "
Jefferson, Mo........................................11 02  " 
Knoxville, Tenn......................................11 30  " 
Little Rock, Ark.....................................11 02  "  
Lynchburg, VA........................................11 53  "  
Milledgeville, GA....................................11 37  "  
Mobile, Ala..........................................11 18  " 
Nashville, Tenn......................................11 23  "  
Natchez, Miss........................................11 05  "  
New Orleans, La......................................11 10  "  
Norfolk, Va..........................................12 05 P.M.
Pensacola, Fla.......................................11 22 A.M.
Petersburg, Va.......................................11 52  "
Raleigh, N. C........................................11 55  " 
Savannah, Ga.........................................11 45  "
Tallahassee, Fla.....................................11 32  "
Tuscaloosa, Ala......................................11 20  "
Wilmington, N C......................................11 58  "
 

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