Candia – Manchester railway line

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Candia NH – Manchester NH,
as of 1999
Society: last ST
Route length: 18.23 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend
   
 from Portsmouth
   
 0.00 Candia NH
   
 after Concord (closed in 1862)
   
 6.05 Auburn NH
   
 8.53 Severance NH
   
 10.15 Massabesic NH
   
 14.98 East Manchester NH (formerly Hallsville)
   
 from Lawrence
   
 from Nashua
Station without passenger traffic
 18.23 Manchester NH
Route - straight ahead
 after Concord

The Candia – Manchester line was a 18-kilometer railway in New Hampshire ( United States ). The route is closed.

history

The Portsmouth and Concord Railroad already planned to build a branch line to Manchester from their main line , which was completed in 1852 . After the Concord Railroad leased the train, the money was finally there to build the line, which was completed in 1862. At the same time, however, at the urging of the Concord Railroad, the section of the main line from Candia to Concord was shut down and dismantled.

From 1889 the Concord and Montreal Railroad operated the railway line, followed by the Boston and Maine Railroad in 1895 . It was not until 1944 that the line became the property of Boston & Maine. Regular passenger traffic was discontinued in 1954, but until the early 1960s there were still mixed trains running on an irregular schedule.

In 1981 the Boston & Maine stopped the freight traffic between Candia and East Manchester, the official shutdown took place in the following year. In 1983, the management of the remaining short section in Manchester was transferred to Guilford Transportation . However, traffic on this section was stopped soon afterwards and the tracks were dismantled.

Route description

The line begins in Candia , where it branches off the older Portsmouth – Bow Junction railway line. It curves in a south-westerly direction and touches Massabesic Lake on its way towards Manchester . In the south of the city the route joins that of the Manchester – Lawrence railway line .

Sources and further information

Individual evidence
  1. ↑ Mike Walker: Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America. New England & Maritime Canada. SPV-Verlag, Dunkirk (GB), 1999.
  2. ↑ Distance kilometers from www.trainweb.org
literature
  • Robert M. Lindsell: The Rail Lines of Northern New England. Branch Line Press, Pepperell, MA 2000, ISBN 0-942147-06-5 .
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