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The Nashua and Lowell Railroad (N&L) was a 14-mile-long (23 km) railroad built to connect Nashua, New Hampshire with the city of Lowell, Massachusetts. Chartered in June 1835, construction began in 1837 and the first train ran the next year. The Nashua and Lowell was the first railroad built in the state of New Hampshire.
At the time of the Nashua, Acton and Boston Railroad's construction, the only route between Nashua and Boston was via the Nashua and Lowell Railroad. [3] Construction of the 20-mile-long (32 km) line took place between 1872 and 1873. Spalding built the railroad "as straight as a gun barrel" after construction made it out of the Nashua city ...
The Worcester, Nashua and Rochester Railroad was a railroad line that was to link the city of Worcester, Massachusetts, to the city of Portland, Maine, via the New Hampshire cities of Nashua and Rochester, by merging several small shortline railroads (typical of the earliest North American railways) together.
Portsmouth, Great Falls and Conway Railroad: Groton and Nashua Railroad: B&M: 1844 1846 Worcester and Nashua Railroad: Lake Shore Railroad: B&M: 1883 1901 Concord and Montreal Railroad: Maine Central Railroad: MEC MEC 1888 2003 New Hampshire Central Railroad: Manchester and Keene Railroad: B&M: 1864 1881 Boston and Lowell Railroad/ Concord Railroad
In the 1860s and 1870s, the Northern was under the control of Onslow Stearns, who served as president of the railroad from 1852 until his death in 1878. [22] The Northern thrived under his leadership, and the yearly gross income of the road rose from nearly $364,000 in 1861 to $500,000 in 1881, while passenger-miles increased from 3.6m to 5.9m and revenue freight increased from 12.6m to 29.4m ...
The following is a list of historic Old Colony Railroad (OCRR) stations, at the time of the 1893 lease by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and shortly after. [1] City/town include current town name, some of which were incorporated after 1893. Stations currently used by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority or Amtrak are ...
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Nantucket Railroad: Nashua and Acton Railroad: B&M: 1907 1925 N/A Nashua, Acton and Boston Railroad: B&M: 1871 1906 Nashua and Acton Railroad: Nashua and Lowell Railroad: B&M: 1836 1944 Boston and Maine Railroad: New Bedford Railroad: NH: 1873 1876 Boston, Clinton, Fitchburg and New Bedford Railroad: New Bedford and Taunton Railroad: NH: 1839 ...