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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 ...
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.
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 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.
Old Colony Railroad: NH: 1872 1947 New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad: Old Colony Railroad: NH: 1844 1854 Old Colony and Fall River Railroad: Old Colony Railroad: NH: 1838 1839 New Bedford and Taunton Railroad: Old Colony and Fall River Railroad: NH: 1854 1863 Old Colony and Newport Railway: Old Colony and Newport Railway: NH: 1863 1872 ...
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
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The Province of New-York greatly improved the old Indian trails that had served the colony's earlier masters. Country roads suitable for wagons included the King's Highway in Kings County, two Jamaica Roads through Jamaica Pass, and Boston Post Road. [citation needed]