Norfolk Terminal Station

Norfolk Terminal Station
Photo of the station c. 1914
General information
Coordinates	36°50′37″N 76°16′34″W / 36.843475°N 76.276117°W / 36.843475; -76.276117
Line(s)	Norfolk and Western Railway, Norfolk Southern Railway, Virginian Railway
History
Opened	1912
Closed	1962
Key dates
1963	demolished
Former services
Preceding station Norfolk and Western Railway Following station Suffolk toward Cincinnati Main Line Terminus Preceding station Virginian Railway Following station Sunray toward Deepwater Main Line Terminus

Norfolk Terminal Station was a railroad union station located in Norfolk, Virginia, which served passenger trains and provided offices for the Norfolk and Western Railway, the original Norfolk Southern Railway (a regional carrier in Virginia and North Carolina which became part of and later lent its name to the much larger company known as Norfolk Southern in the 1980s) and the Virginian Railway. The N&W, Norfolk Southern, and Virginian's Norfolk terminal location stood in contrast to competitor railroads, such as the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, Southern Railway, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad and Seaboard Air Line Railroad which operated out of Cape Charles (Virginia), Newport News and Portsmouth, terminals outside of Norfolk.^[1] Customers took ferries or, later in the 20th century, buses from Norfolk to reach those other terminals.^[2] The terminal was located at 1200 East Main Street in Norfolk,^[3] near today's Harbor Park baseball stadium.