Bramwell Pioneers

News about the Bramwell area pioneers from the 1928 Norfolk and Western Magazine

The article below is text from the N & W January 1928 magazine that featured Clift Yard, located near Bramwell,WV. These pioneer southern WV men were all residents of the Bramwell and surrounding area. W. L. Cole is the father of Ward Cole, BHS Class '51.

Cliff Yard is between Simmons and Duhring . It was a small marshalling yard where coal loads from the various spurs and branches were assembled. Clift Yard functioned much like Flat Top Yard, located on the Pocahontas District mainline between Falls Mills and Bluestone, does in modern times. From Clift, the loaded coal trains were dispatched to Bluefield. For many years this was done under the power of the N&W's electric locomotives since the Bluestone Branch was electrified as far west at Clift Yard.