State Route 145 (SR 145) is a primary
state highway
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in the U.S. state of
Virginia
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. The state highway runs from
SR 10 in
Chesterfield east to
U.S. Route 1
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and
US 301 in
Bellwood in eastern
Chesterfield County.
Route description
SR 145 begins at an intersection with SR 10 (Iron Bridge Road) in Chesterfield. The state highway heads east as two-lane undivided Centralia Road toward the hamlet of
Centralia, where the highway has a grade crossing of
CSX
CSX Transportation , known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Railroad classes, Class I freight railroad company operating in the Eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Operating about 21,000 route miles () of trac ...
's
North End Subdivision. Just east of the railroad crossing, SR 145 meets the northern end of
SR 144 (Chester Road). SR 145 turns north onto Chester Road, which is a four-lane
divided highway from just south of the SR 144–SR 145 intersection to north of the state highway's
diamond interchange
A diamond interchange is a common type of road junction, used where a controlled-access highway crosses a minor road.
Design
The freeway itself is grade separation, grade-separated from the minor road, one crossing the other over a bridge. ...
with the
SR 288 freeway. North of the freeway, SR 145 closely parallels CSX's
Bellwood Subdivision
The Bellwood Subdivision is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation in Virginia, United States. The line runs along CSX's S Line from Richmond, Virginia, to Bellwood, Virginia, for a total of . At its north end the line continues south from ...
rail line northeast to Bellwood. There, the highway veers east and makes a 90-degree turn north at Perrymont Road. SR 145 veers east again and reaches its northern terminus at US 1 and US 301 (Jefferson Davis Highway).
History
SR 145 was added to the state highway system in 1924
as State Route 313, a spur of
State Route 31 (now US 1/301). It became State Route 410 in the
1928 renumbering and State Route 145 in the
1933 renumbering.
Major intersections
References
External links
Virginia Highways Project: VA 145
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