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Belton, Williamston and Easley Railroad

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Dates of operation
  
1878–1879

Track gauge
  
4 ft 8 ⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge

Successor
  
Atlantic and French Broad Valley Railroad

The Belton, Williamston and Easley Railroad was a Carolinian railroad company, chartered shortly after the end of the Reconstruction Era of the United States.

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Creation

The Belton, Williamston and Easley Railroad was created by an act of the South Carolina General Assembly in 1878.

Name change

The following year (1879) its name was changed to the Atlantic and French Broad Valley Railroad Company of South Carolina.

References

Belton, Williamston and Easley Railroad Wikipedia