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On 10 May 1857, the Carlisle Citadel Station Agreement was drawn up and established under the Carlisle Citadel Station Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. clxvi) of 22 July 1861. The committee had eight directors, four each from the boards of the Caledonian and the London and North Western Railway (L&NWR) which had absorbed the Lancaster & Carlisle in 1859.
Destroyed in 1968 in the name of Rochester's urban renewal, this station served first the WNY&PRR and then the Pennsy. WNY&P System Map c. 1900. Incorporated in 1887 as the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad from the reorganization of the Buffalo, New York, and Philadelphia, [1] and reorganized in 1895 as the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railway, this American transportation ...
1868 – Pennsylvania & New York Railroad and Canal Company opens a line between Towanda, PA and Waverly, NY, which connects to their main line. 1900 – Flood severely damages the roadbed and bridges. 1902 – Susquehanna and New York Railroad formed; absorbs the Barclay Railroad and Gray's Run Railroad.
On October 5 of that year the new company issued a $30 million mortgage to pay off the outstanding mortgages on various companies included in the merger. The company went into the hands of a receiver, Robert B. Potter of New York, on April 1, 1867. Potter operated the railroad until December 1868 when it was leased for 12 years by the Erie ...
This is a route-map template for Pennsylvania Station, a New York City railway station.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
This is a route-map template for rail transport in Pennsylvania, a United States railway network. For a key to symbols, see {{ railway line legend }} . For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap .
Pennsylvania Station (often abbreviated to Penn Station) was a historic railroad station in New York City that was built for, named after, and originally occupied by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR). The station occupied an 8-acre (3.2 ha) plot bounded by Seventh and Eighth Avenues and 31st and 33rd Streets in Midtown Manhattan .
The issue of the L&CR station at Carlisle was not yet settled, so the first L&CR trains used the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway's London Road station, reached by a sharp south-to-east curve that had been authorised on 21 June 1845, and which (as for the M&CR trains) required a backshunt to enter the station. The train service was not intensive ...