The Norfolk, Franklin and Danville Railway (reporting mark NFD), which operated as the Atlantic & Danville Railway prior to 1962, at one time operated 250 miles of track between Portsmouth (on the harbor of Hampton Roads adjacent to Norfolk) and Danville, Virginia. Part of the line passed through North Carolina. Between 1899 and 1949 the A&D was leased to the Southern Railway. After Southern discontinued the lease, the A&D operated as an independent railroad for 10 years before becoming bankrupt. It was acquired by the Norfolk and Western Railway in 1962 and renamed the NF&D. In March 1982 upon the merger of the N&W and the Southern into the new Norfolk Southern, the NF&D became largely redundant. All that remains of the NF&D is the eastern segment between Lawrenceville and Suffolk and terminal trackage in Portsmouth and Danville.
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