# Westham station
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{{about|the Virginia rail station|other uses|West Ham (disambiguation)}}
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{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}
{{Coord|37|34|26.3|N|77|27|46.3|W|display=title}}
[[File:Westham Station.jpg|thumb|This is Westham station that was moved to a city park. The park is the Parker Field Annex in [Richmond, Virginia](/source/Richmond%2C_Virginia).[{{cite news |last=Williams |first=Michael|date=2013-12-27|title=Williams: Building’s neglect reflects on us |url=http://www.richmond.com/news/local/michael-paul-williams/article_ac2d64e9-9f0d-51a7-8a0d-dabb38d422d4.html |newspaper=Richmond Times Dispatch |location=[Richmond, Virginia](/source/Richmond%2C_Virginia) |access-date=2016-02-03}}]]]
'''Westham Station''' in [Henrico County, Virginia](/source/Henrico_County%2C_Virginia), USA, was originally located at [Westham](/source/Westham%2C_Virginia) on the [Richmond and Allegheny Railroad](/source/Richmond_and_Allegheny_Railroad) (R&A), which was laid along the [towpath](/source/towpath) of the [James River and Kanawha Canal](/source/James_River_and_Kanawha_Canal) in the 1880s.[{{cite book|author=James Macfarlane|title=An American Geological Railway Guide, Giving the Geological Formation at Every Railway Station, with Altitudes Above Mean Tide-water, Notes on Interesting Places on the Routes, and a Description of Each of the Formations|url=https://archive.org/details/anamericangeoog00macfgoog|year=1890|publisher=D. Appleton|pages=[https://archive.org/details/anamericangeoog00macfgoog/page/n366 359]–}}] The R&A railroad was acquired by the [Chesapeake and Ohio Railway](/source/Chesapeake_and_Ohio_Railway) (C&O) in the 1890s.[{{cite web |url=http://www.cohs.org/history/ |title=History of the C&O Railway: |last1=|first1= |last2= |first2= |date= |website=COHS|publisher=C&O Historical Society|access-date=2016-02-11 |quote=In 1889 the Richmond & Alleghany Railroad, which had been built along the tow-path of the defunct James River & Kanawha Canal, was merged into the C&O, giving it a down grade "water level" line from Clifton Forge to Richmond, avoiding the heavy grades of North Mountain and the Blue Ridge on the original Virginia Central route. This "James River Line" remains the principal artery of coal transportation to the present day.}}] Westham station was built in 1911, near the [Westham Bridge](/source/Westham_Bridge), which spans the [James River](/source/James_River_(Virginia)). The station was heated by a coal stove and had a telegraph for communication through the 1950s.