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An MBTA demonstration train at Concord, New Hampshire, in 1979 For a time in 1980-81, some MBTA Commuter Rail trains routed on the New Hampshire Main ran as far up as Concord. MBTA Commuter Rail service connecting Concord, Manchester and Nashua from the Lowell Line used to exist in New Hampshire until subsidies were ceased in 1967. [10]
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.
Extension of the Lowell Line to Manchester and Nashua, New Hampshire has been proposed since the 1980–81 pilot service. [141] The extension has been a politically contentious issue at the state level in New Hampshire, with Democratic politicians supporting the service and Republican politicians opposing it. [142]
The Lowell and Nashua Railroad was chartered in 1836 as an extension of the B&L from Lowell north to the New Hampshire state line. The Nashua and Lowell Railroad, chartered in 1835, would continue the line in New Hampshire to Nashua. The two companies merged in 1838 to form a new Nashua and Lowell Railroad, and the road opened later that year ...
The Nashua, Acton and Boston Railroad (NA&B) was a railroad formed in 1871 to build a line between Nashua, New Hampshire, and Acton, Massachusetts. After opening in 1873, the railroad expanded to Concord, Massachusetts, and offered a commuter connection to Boston.
Railroads first came to New Hampshire via the Nashua and Lowell Railroad, chartered on June 23, 1835, by the state to connect Nashua to the Boston and Lowell. [11] The final New England state without a railroad, Vermont, gained its first when the Vermont Central Railroad was chartered in 1843. [12]
Oct. 30—The U.S. Department of Energy on Monday gave a boost to a proposed high-voltage transmission line that would run through New Hampshire and bring hydropower to New England. The feds ...
Nashua and Lowell Railroad: B&M: 1835 1944 Boston and Maine Railroad: Nashua and Rochester Railroad: B&M: 1868 1883 Worcester, Nashua and Rochester Railroad: New Boston Railroad: B&M: 1891 1934 N/A New Hampshire Central Railroad: B&M: 1848 1853 Merrimack and Connecticut River Railroad: New Hampshire and Vermont Railroad: NHVT 1989 2000 New ...