Franklin – Bristol railway line

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Franklin NH – Bristol NH,
as of 1999
Society: last BM
Route length: 20.65 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Tracks: 1
Legend
   
 by Concord
   
 0.00 Franklin NH
   
 to White River Junction
   
 4.0 Franklin Falls Dam
   
 7.69 Oakdale Park NH (formerly Franklin Falls)
   
 11.52 Hill NH
   
 17.27 Blake's NH
   
 Smiths River
   
 approx. 19 Profile If NH
   
 20.65 Bristol NH

The Franklin – Bristol line is a former rail link in New Hampshire ( United States ). It is around 21 kilometers long and connects the towns of Franklin and Bristol . The line is completely shut down and dismantled.

history

The Franklin and Bristol Railroad built the branch line when the subsequent main line in Franklin to Concord was also under construction. The standard gauge line was opened at the end of 1847. As early as April 1848, the Northern Railroad of New Hampshire , which also owned the main line to Concord, took over operations on the route to Bristol. In 1884 this was transferred to the Boston and Lowell Railroad and in 1887 to the Boston and Maine Railroad , which had each bought their predecessor.

From September 27, 1927, Boston & Maine switched almost all travel traffic to buses, only one weekday train pair, which ran as a mixed train , remained on the route. After a flood washed away parts of the route on March 17, 1936, all traffic was initially stopped. The Interstate Commerce Commission did not initially approve the shutdown . Only after plans were made to build a dam at Franklin, the reservoir of which would flood the route, was the section from the dam construction site to Bristol closed on September 24, 1937. By the time the dam was completed in 1940, the remaining four-kilometer section was reactivated and the building materials were transported over the route. In 1940 Boston & Maine closed this section as well.

Route description

The line branches off at the northern end of Franklin station from the route of the Concord – White River Junction railway line and heads north. It ran along the entire length of the west bank of the Pemigewasset River and accordingly had hardly any steep inclines to overcome. The only intermediate station with the possibility of crossing was in Hill . The terminus in Bristol was off the center at the confluence of the Newfound River in the Pemigewasset.

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 http://www.trainweb.org/nhrra/Mileage-Charts/BM-RR/Bristol.htm
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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