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The Board of Directors of the Boston and Lowell Railroad, armed with a charter, now had the task of surveying and building the line. They brought in James Fowle Baldwin, son of Col. Loammi Baldwin, who had engineered the Middlesex Canal, to do the surveying, and charged him with finding a gently sloped path from Lowell to Boston, with few grade crossings and well away from town centers.
Appalachian Mountain Club headquartered in city. [81] Boston Merchants' Association [82] and MIT Woman's Laboratory established. 1877 April: A telephone line connects Boston and Somerville, Massachusetts. [83] Trinity Church built. Marcella-Street Home opens. [61] Women's Educational and Industrial Union and Footlight Club (theatre group) founded.
A History of the Great North of Scotland Railway ((reprint of 1950 edition published by Locomotive Publishing) ed.). Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-2592-4. H.A.Vallance (June 1996). History of the Railways of the Scottish Highlands: Highland Railway. House of Lochar. ISBN 1-899863-07-9. Thomas, John (November 1969). The North British Railway Vol 1 ...
A CSX train in Springfield, Massachusetts along the company's former Boston and Albany Railroad main line between Selkirk, New York and Boston. Railroads have played an important role in New England ever since the Granite Railway, America's first commercial railway, began operations in Massachusetts in 1826. As industrialization spread across ...
Chart of Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bay with Map of Adjacent Country. E. P. Dutton. 1867. Archived from the original on February 7, 2009. A good map of roads and rail lines in and around Boston. Downst, Henry P. (1916). Random Notes of Boston. Humphrey Publishing. Harris, Patricia & Lyon, David (1999). Boston. Oakland, California: Compass ...
The West End Street Railway was renamed the Boston Elevated Railway (BERy), and undertook several such projects. Boston's subway was the first in the United States and is often called "America's First Subway" by the MBTA and others. [8] In 1897 and 1898, the Tremont Street subway opened as the core of the precursor to the Green Line. [9]
1851 – Initiative taken for a railway system in British India, for setting up military routes and growing trade. 1851 – Moscow – Saint Petersburg Railway; 1852 – The first railway in Africa, in Alexandria, Egypt. 1853 – Railways introduced to India, train ran from Bombay (now Mumbai) to Thane.
British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. Originally a trading brand of the Railway Executive of the British Transport Commission, it became an independent statutory corporation in January 1963, when it was formally renamed the British Railways Board.