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The station opened as Farnworth for Widnes on 1 August 1873 when the Cheshire Lines Committee opened the line between Glazebrook and Cressington & Grassendale to passengers. [a] [3] [4] Farnworth being at the time a village over 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Widnes, but has since been absorbed to become a northern suburb of the town.
The main line of the Cheshire Lines Committee (CLC), between Manchester Central and Liverpool Brunswick, opened in 1873. [3] This passed to the north of the growing town of Widnes, so in 1873 the Widnes Railway was projected to link that town to the CLC, at a triangular junction to the west of Sankey.
New York, Brooklyn and Manhattan Beach Railway: New York and Boston Railroad: NYC: 1869 1872 New York, Boston and Northern Railway: New York, Boston and Montreal Railway: NH, NYC, RUT: 1873 1876 Bennington and Rutland Railway, New York, Rutland and Montreal Railroad, New York, Westchester and Putnam Railway, Newburgh, Dutchess and Connecticut ...
A New York City map that displays the terminus of various railroads, including the NYS&W at Edgewater, circa 1900. In 1880, investors from the original NJM regrouped and reorganized the company as the Midland Railroad of New Jersey, with Hobart serving as their president, and the company regained their finances by serving New Jersey industrial firms. [2]
Blairstown Railway bought; the companies reorganize as second corporate incarnation of the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad [65] [66] 1884 The Panic of 1884; 1885 July 13: Passaic and New York Railroad (branch) chartered; begins operating in 1886 [67] [68] 1887 The railroad is double-tracked from Paterson to Jersey City [69] [70] 1891
The WNY&P operates a system centered on Olean, New York, where it operates the ex-Erie yard just west of the crossing of its two main lines. The Southern Tier Extension heads east to the Norfolk Southern Railway's (NS's) Southern Tier Line at Hornell and west to NS at Meadville, with a branch continuing to the Oil City area.
The New York, Ontario and Western Railway, commonly known as the O&W or NYO&W, was a regional railroad founded in 1868. The last train ran from Norwich, New York, to Middletown, New York, in 1957, after which it was ordered liquidated by a U.S. bankruptcy judge. It was the first Class I U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety. [11]
The Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company (reporting mark MNCW), [8] also branded as MTA Metro-North Railroad and commonly called simply Metro-North, is a suburban commuter rail service operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), a public authority of the U.S. state of New York.