The South Carolina Railroad was the direct successor of the South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company, which had operated its 136-mile line from Charleston, South Carolina, to Hamburg, South Carolina, since 1833. In 1843, the SCC&RR and the abortive Louisville, Cincinnati and Charleston Railroad reconsolidated to become the South Carolina Railroad.
In 1881, it was reorganized as the South Carolina Railway. After entering receivership in 1889, it was reorganized greatly once again five years later as the South Carolina and Georgia Railroad, ending the SCRR's identity as a home-grown intrastate line.
Southern Railway (now Norfolk Southern Railway) gained control of the line in 1899 and consolidated it into the Southern Railway – Carolina Division in 1902.
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