Station Number: 172
Code Number: 0290

I’ve long suspected that Rugby was the estate of a wealthy individual. I recently discovered that there was an estate called Rugby on what were then the outskirts of Charlottesville. In 1883, Rugby was purchased as a summer home by Thomas Lafayette Rosser, a Civil War veteran and chief engineer of the Northern Pacific Railroad. The unfortunate thing is that the Rugby estate was miles and miles from this station. I’m still not sure where the name came from, but McChord (1979) reports that the stop was once known as Trice’s.

The C&O had a passenger shelter along the tracks here in the late 1940’s, but it was gone by 1963. In late 1956, the C&O requested permission to discontinue Rugby for freight purposes.

This map was prepared from C&O track charts dated 1963 and U.S.G.S. maps of the area. I have to admit that there is a degree of uncertainty in the accuracy of this map. Most mapping sources show Rugby about ½ mile from where I put it. My old map of Rugby agreed because the site was between two stream crossings and the track charts showed that Rugby was between two bridges. The track charts also, however, showed a public grade crossing and there was no road into the area. What led me to locate Rugby as I did on the current map was the C&O’s Chesapeake Region Bridge Book. It says that Bridge 1722 crosses “Jack’s Creek”. The U.S.G.S. maps do show a Jack’s Branch just about .2 miles from Route 648. The only problem is that Bridge 1717 is supposed to be a three span bridge over an unnamed creek and there is no such waterway on the maps.

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