Most folks are familiar with the Bristol, Virginia Train Station, located at the corner of Martin Luther King Blvd and State Street. That station has been the source of much of Bristol’s history, ever since it was built by the N & W Railway in 1902.
Most folks, though, aren’t aware of the other train station in Bristol, located a few blocks away and designed to serve a railroad that ran to Big Stone Gap, Virginia, which brought passengers and coal from Southwest Virginia to Bristol.
Today we tell the story of Bristol’s other train station and that railroad, the South Atlantic & Ohio Railroad Company, which later formed a part of the Southern Railroad, now Norfolk & Southern, and the rail-trail that now runs along part of its route.
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