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The Boston and Lowell Railroad was a railroad that operated in Massachusetts in the United States. It was one of the first railroads in North America and the first major one in the state. The line later operated as part of the Boston and Maine Railroad's Southern Division. Late 19th century map of the Boston & Lowell Railroad (drawn in red)
Planned West End Street Railway system, 1885; consolidation of these lines was complete by 1887. See also Boston horse railroads map.jpg 1880 horse railway map. The Cambridge Railroad was the first streetcar company in Massachusetts.
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 ...
This map shows Eastern's tracks from Lynn into East Boston, as well as the Grand Junction tracks from East Boston to downtown Boston and the Chelsea cut-off between the two routes. 1849 railroad map, with Eastern Railroad main line highlighted in yellow. The Eastern Railroad Company of Massachusetts was first chartered on April 14, 1836.
Boston and Lowell Railroad: Boston and Albany Railroad: B&A NYC: 1867 1961 New York Central Railroad: Boston, Barre and Gardner Railroad: B&M: 1849 1885 Fitchburg Railroad: Boston, Clinton and Fitchburg Railroad: NH: 1867 1876 Boston, Clinton, Fitchburg and New Bedford Railroad: Boston, Clinton, Fitchburg and New Bedford Railroad: NH: 1873 1883 ...
The Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway opened between Grantham and Boston through Sleaford, in two stages, in 1857 and 1859. Coupled with the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston and Eastern Junction Railway which had opened in 1850 and connected Nottingham to Grantham, the line provided an important west to east route, connecting the East ...
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 ...
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.