Durham and Northern Railway

The line came under the ownership of the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad, which the Durham and Northern Railway connected with in Henderson.

[1] The Raleigh and Gaston Railroad was absorbed into the Seaboard Air Line Railway in 1900, and the Durham and Northern was fully merged into the company in 1901.

The Seaboard designated the line as their Durham Subdivision and in 1902, they built a short 4-mile branch from Dickerson to Oxford.

[2] In 1967, the SAL merged with its rival, the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (ACL).

The Seaboard Coast Line continued to operate the Durham Subdivision but it was subsequently abandoned by 1975.