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Following the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861, during the opening months of the American Civil War, the Hanover Junction Railroad Station became a key transportation hub for the movement of Union Army soldiers from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to Maryland, Washington, D.C. and other areas in the southern United States where federal troops were stationed to protect cities, towns, and ...
The junction serves as a rest stop on the York County Heritage Rail Trail. The Hanover Junction Railroad Station, an historic transit building dating to the 1850s that is located in this community, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1]
Map from 1895, indicating control by Western Maryland Railway. The Hanover Junction, Hanover and Gettysburg Railroad was a railroad line in Pennsylvania in the 19th century. . The 38 mile (61 km) main line ran from Orrtanna to Hanover Junction, where it connected with the Northern Central Railway (a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroa
The Northern Central Railway of York (reporting mark NCRA) is a non-profit, Civil War themed heritage railroad based in New Freedom, Pennsylvania. A reproduction 4-4-0 steam locomotive hauls passengers over 10 miles of Northern Central Railway track between New Freedom and Hanover Junction, Pennsylvania . [ 1 ]
Hanover Junction station in 1863. The Hanover Branch Railroad Company was a railroad that operated in Pennsylvania in the mid-19th century. The company was incorporated on March 16, 1847, and began operating trains in 1852. It represents the oldest portion of the Western Maryland Railway.
On March 4, 1851, Robert McCurdy, Josiah Benner, and Henry Myers secured a charter for the Gettysburg Railroad Company. [1] The groundbreaking was on February 22, 1856; [1] the first mortgage was issued in 1857, [2] and the railroad opened between Hanover Junction [3] and New Oxford on January 6, 1858 [4] (the first passenger train had entered Adams County on September 14, 1857). [1]
The Northern Central Railway of York, a heritage railway, operates on former Northern Central track between New Freedom and Hanover Junction, Pennsylvania. The route between York, Pennsylvania , and the Maryland-Pennsylvania line is now the York County Heritage Rail Trail , much of which is side-by-side with still-functioning track.
Greenlick Railway: Hanover Branch Railroad: WM: 1849 1874 Hanover Junction, Hanover and Gettysburg Railroad: Hanover Junction, Hanover and Gettysburg Railroad: WM: 1874 1886 Baltimore and Harrisburg Railway: Hanover Junction and Susquehanna Railroad: RDG: 1876 1881 Reading, Marietta and Hanover Railroad: Hanover and Newport Railroad: DL&W: 1894 ...