Hawkinsville & Florida Southern Railway The H&FS was chartered in 1889. Over the next 12 years the company built a 43-mile line running south from Hawkinsville to the new Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad at Worth, a point three miles north of Ashburn. A 15-mile branch line from Davisville to Fitzgerald was also constructed. The railroad was leased to Gulf Line Railway (Ashburn-to-Bridgeboro) in 1907. In 1909, the H&FS and the Gulf Line Railway merged, although both companies kept their own names. After a reorganization in 1913, the H&FS emerged as the operator of a line from Hawkinsville to Camilla, having absorbed the Gulf Line Railway (which had extended the line to Camilla). In 1922 the H&FS entered receivership and was ordered to be sold. The southern end of the line from Camilla to Ashburn was purchased by the new Georgia, Ashburn, Sylvester, and Camilla Railway, but because no buyers had been found for the tracks between Hawkinsville and Worth, these were abandoned in 1923. The branch line to Fitzgerald had been abandoned some time earlier. 1895 map (29K) 1898 map (44K) 1904 map (52K) 1906 timetable (45K) 1910 map (36K) 1918 timetable (107K) For more info see Georgia Southern & Florida Historical Society   Georgia's Railroad History & Heritage. Copyright, Steve Storey. Railroad History | The Depot List | Locomotives On Display | Odds & Ends | Sources & References | Home