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| EXISTING STATIONS | ||||||||
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| Station Name |
Original Railroad |
Current Location |
Type | Current Use |
Date Built |
Track Status |
Building Material |
More Info |
| Florence Switch |  |
SR 142 East end of London | P | Museum | ???? | None | Wood |
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| London | |
Between South Walnut and South Main Streets (GPS: 39.946895,-83.269329) |
P | Business | 1896 | In Use | Brick | |
| London | |
East Center Street (GPS: 39.883717, -83.444131) |
F | Business | 1890 | None | Wood |
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| London |  |
Off South Main, across from PRR station (GPS: 39.884524,-83.445202) |
F | Storage | ???? | Gone | Wood | |
| Mt. Sterling |
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Church Street near Market Street | C | Railroad | ???? | In Use | Wood | |
| Midway (Sedalia) |
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South Main Street at Community Park (GPS: 39.729851, -83.476833) |
C | Storage | 1875 | Gone | Wood |
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| STATIONS OF THE PAST | ||||||||
| Station Name |
Original Railroad |
Notes | ||||||
| Glade Run | |
There was a tower here that served as a flag stop station that was torn down before 1933. It was listed on the USGS Spirit Leveling book from 1898 to 1916. | ||||||
| Kileville |
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The spirit leveling book lists the station as to where the survey marker was located, lists it as follows: Kileville, road crossing at station; top of rail, The T&OC station was located at the Dublin Plain City Road crossing. That was in 1901/02. The town is located in Franklin, Madison and Union Counties. The station stood on the Madison County side of town in the NW quadreant of the crossing at GPS: 40.105125, -83.211633. |
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| Lilly Chapel | |
Was previously North of tracks in trees on private property near grain elevator. Supposedly torn down after being in bad shape. | ||||||
| London |
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This is an illustration of the first wood frame station in London from 1854. This original Little Miami, Columbus & Xenia station was on the east side of South Main Street on the north side of the tracks, just west of where the existing brick PRR station is. | ||||||
| London |
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The freight station was across the tracks from the original passenger station. It was on the SE side of the tracks on the east side of Main Street. | ||||||
| London |
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Prior to the Big 4 stations, the IB&W had frame passenger and freight stations in the same general vicinity (east of South Main Street) as the later Big 4 stations. | ||||||
| London | |
Big 4 station is on left, PRR station is on right in photo. Both the CCC&ST.L and PRR had freight stations across the tracks from their respective stations. These stations were between Union and Main Streets. | ||||||
| Myers | |
A combination flag stop station/interlocking tower and 80 car siding was located at the Coover family farm on Davis Road at approximately GPS: 39.890260, -83.528973. The station served until 1915 for mainly cattle and feed similar to Brooks (in Clark Co.). The property was owned by the county as a experimental farm from 1915 until 1957 and was served by the NYC for loading feed into cars until the siding and the depot were removed sometime after 1955. The station also had a telegraph office that only operated during the day. | ||||||
| Plain
City (Pleasant Valley) |
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This station was on the east side of Maple Street (formerly Railroad Street) just north of Maple Court. The station was next to the creek and there is now (2009) a commercial building there. Behind that building still exists a small trestle for the tracks and bridges that held the platforms to the station. The early station here was known as Pleasant Valley until 1883 when it was changed to Plain City. | ||||||
| South Solon |
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| West Jefferson |
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The original Little Miami, Columbus & Xenia RR station was on the east side of Walnut on the south side of the tracks (GPS:39.946879,-83.268873). The freight house was attached to the NE side of the building. | ||||||
| West Jefferson |
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This station was on the west side of North Walnut Street just south of the underpass for the tracks at GPS: 39.94657,-83.269136. It was torn down in December 2023 to make way for a new building at the site. When the PRR elevated the grade sometime between 1910 and 1926, the original Little Miami RR stations on the east side of Walnut were replaced with a this passenger depot on the west side of Walnut and a small freight depot (now gone) up at track level. Essentially the RR depots and the John Murray Lumber Company swapped sides of the street during this period. After passenger service ended, the passenger station served as an express office. Although it is at an odd angle to the tracks, according to old maps it is still in its original location and orientation. --Note about station history by Donald Burden | ||||||
| 1898 MADISON COUNTY RAILROAD MAP | ||||||||
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| Notes About Existing
Stations... Florence Switch (PCC&St.L) - This station is now at the Madison County Historical Museum. This building was the Florence Switch flag stop. According to my 1970 Penn Central timetable, Florence was located at MP 31.2, halfway between London (MP 25.0) and South Charleston (MP 36.3) on the C&X Branch (now lifted). This very neat little building was apparently used for both passengers and local freight. It's very nicely restored and is full of some neat photos and other railroad displays. --Tom Swisher London (PCC&St.L Freight) - This building matches the building shown as the freight station on the Sanborn map and jives with what the county auditor has on file. The county at least has evidence that the building was built in 1920 at least according to their documents. Both show the building wall’s being 14-ft high and the design looks the same. I have a photo taken in this same spot in 1938 and the wood building is clearly not there and we can be sure it existed when the 1938 photo was taken by the evidence shown. I believe the Dwyer Bros hardware store bought this building off the railroad sometime in or before the 1950s. They are the current owners and on Vintage Aerial there’s a old satellite image of the building in 1957 it in its current spot. My guess is that Dwyer Brothers had to move it off railroad property after they purchased it from the railroad. --Tyler Dixon Midway (DT&I) - This combination station was built by the Waynesville, Port William & Jeffersonville Railroad in 1875. The RR was taken over by the DT&I in 1901. This depot and the branch line closed in 1941 and the Line was torn up. --Tyler Dixon |
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