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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 ...
Overview; Headquarters: North Kingstown, Rhode Island: Locale: 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
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 ...
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.
Dutchess and Columbia Railway 1877 New York, Boston and Montreal Railway 1874 Harlem Extension Railroad 1873 Lebanon Springs Railroad 1870; New York, Boston and Northern Railway 1873 Dutchess and Columbia Railroad 1872; Philadelphia, Reading and New England Railroad 1899 Central New England and Western Railroad 1892
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 Fall River Subdivision was assigned to CSX in 1999 after the breakup of Conrail.
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The Puritan. The Fall River Line was a combination steamboat and railroad connection between New York City and Boston that operated between 1847 and 1937. It consisted of a railroad journey between Boston and Fall River, Massachusetts, where passengers would then board steamboats for the journey through Narragansett Bay and Long Island Sound to the line's own Hudson River dock in Manhattan.