The Lurgan Subdivision is a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U.S. states of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia.
[2][3] The line is named after its former northern end in Lurgan Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, where the WM once connected to the Reading Company along the Alphabet Route.
The WM leased a line from the Baltimore and Cumberland Valley Rail Road and the Baltimore & Cumberland Valley Rail Road Extension Company, which connected Edgemont, Maryland, to Shippensburg, Pennsylvania.
In 1886, the line was further connected in Shippensburg to the Harrisburg and Potomac Railroad, which later became part of the Reading system in 1891.
This new route, connecting Hagerstown and Quinsonia, Pennsylvania, served to reduce steep grades for heavy coal trains and shorten the overall distance on the branch line.