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The newly formed and renamed Old Colony and Newport Railway Company completed the final section of the line from Fall River to Newport which finally opened for service on February 5, 1864. In 1865, the Old Colony and Newport Railway Company acquired the Dighton and Somerset Railroad. It completed a new, more direct route between Fall River and ...
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.
The service became known as the Fall River Line, which for many years was the preferred means of travel between Boston and New York City. [13] In 1854, the railroad merged with the Old Colony Railroad to become the Old Colony and Fall River Railroad. The combined company was renamed Old Colony and Newport Railway in 1863 and Old Colony Railway ...
4 Boston and New York Air-Line Railroad 1883. 5 Central New England Railway 1927. 6 Hartford and Connecticut Valley Railroad 1887. ... Old Colony and Newport Railroad ...
Newport County, Rhode Island, USA: Dates of operation: 1979 (Old Colony and Newport Scenic Railway) 1997 (Newport Dinner Train) 2014 (as Newport and Narragansett Bay Railroad)–present: Technical; Track gauge: 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge: Other; Website: trainsri.com
New York, Providence and Boston and Old Colony Railroad Terminal Company: NH: 1891 1904 Providence Terminal Company: Newport and Fall River Railroad: NH: 1846 1863 Old Colony and Newport Railway: Newport and Wickford Railroad and Steamboat Company: NH: 1870 1909 New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad: Old Colony Railroad: NH: 1872 1947
The Fall River Branch Railroad completed the line from Myricks south to Fall River in 1845. [5] The Old Colony and Newport Railway extended the line to Newport, Rhode Island, in 1864. [6] The line later became part of the NYNH&H until 1958. Penn Central then took over in 1968, followed by Conrail, who took over in 1976.
The two railroads merged in 1854; after several name changes, it again became the Old Colony Railroad in 1872. [1]: 376 The Old Colony subsidiary Old Colony and Newport Railway opened between Fall River and Newport in 1864, with an additional station at Ferry Street in Fall River. [4] [1]: 416 Newport was the terminal of the steamers until 1869 ...