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The first expansion of Downeaster service came that month, when the improvements made it possible to increase from four to five daily round trips from Portland to Boston. [6] Amtrak plans to eventually add one or two round trips between Portland and Boston, bringing the daily total to six or seven. [8]
The railroad opened in 1840 to Exeter, New Hampshire, and on January 1, 1842, the two companies merged with the Boston and Portland to form a new Boston and Maine Railroad. Woodburytype of 0-4-0 Achilles , Baldwin Locomotive Works , 1871 1898 map Locomotive emerging from Salem station on the Eastern line, c. 1910 } Boston and Maine depot in ...
The Eastern Railroad was a railroad connecting Boston, Massachusetts to Portland, Maine.Throughout its history, it competed with the Boston and Maine Railroad for service between the two cities, until the Boston & Maine put an end to the competition by leasing the Eastern in December 1884.
The Boston and Portland Railroad opened to Bradford, across the Merrimack River from Haverhill, on October 26, 1837. [4]: 5 A bridge across the river was built in 1839, with service extended to East Kingston, New Hampshire via Haverhill on January 1, 1840. The railroad was renamed as the Boston and Maine Railroad (B&M) in 1843.
Portland Transportation Center is a bus and train station in Portland, Maine, United States, served and run primarily by Concord Coach Lines (18 round-trips a day) [2] and Amtrak Downeaster passenger trains (five round-trips a day). [3]
Downeaster, an Amtrak passenger train from Boston, Massachusetts, to Brunswick, Maine Down Easter group of trains, a passenger train of the United States , 1927–1942 and 1949–1950 a person from Down East , parts of eastern coastal New England and Canada
This was the Boston and Maine Railroad. This railroad ran down from Portland, Maine, through a bit of southern New Hampshire, to Haverhill in northeastern Massachusetts, connected to the Boston and Lowell in Wilmington, and then used Boston and Lowell track to Boston. This route was conceptualized in 1834, but took a long time to be built ...
Freeport station is a passenger rail station in Freeport, Maine, which is located on Amtrak's Downeaster line. The Downeaster operates from North Station in Boston to Brunswick Maine Street Station in Brunswick, Maine, via the Portland Transportation Center in Portland, Maine. Freeport was part of a $38.3 million project to rehabilitate 30 ...