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The Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway Act 1853 (16 & 17 Vict. c. ccxxiii) obtained royal assent on 20 August 1853. [note 1] It would start from Boston South Junction (later Boston, Sleaford Junction) on the East Lincolnshire Railway (opened 1848, and leased to the Great Northern Railway
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)
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 ...
The emerging American financial system was based on railroad bonds. Boston was the first center, but New York by 1860 was the dominant financial market. The British invested heavily in railroads around the world, but nowhere more so than the United States; The total came to about $3 billion by 1914. [151]
The portion of the abandoned right-of-way from Peabody to Newburyport is being converted to rail trails, which are part of the Border to Boston Trail. $122,000 in state funds for design of the Boxford section was awarded in 2022. A 4.4-mile (7.1 km) Wakefield-Lynnfield Rail Trail is also planned. [2]
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]
January 17 – Riverview station, in Waltham, Massachusetts, on the Boston & Maine Railroad closes. The bold lines show what were thought in 1965 to be British Rail's only future trunk routes; many of the assumptions did not come to pass.
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.