Hooksett – Suncook railway line
| Hooksett NH – Suncook NH, as of 1999 |
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| Society: | last BM | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 4.07 km | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks: | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Hooksett – Suncook railway is an approximately four kilometer long disused railway line in New Hampshire ( United States ).
history
The Portsmouth and Concord Railroad had built a railway line between their namesake cities in the 1850s. After the Concord Railroad leased this railroad and shut down the section west of Candia in 1862 to avoid competition with their main line, they built the Hooksett Branch Railroad , a rail link from Hooksett over the Merrimack River to Suncook , with the help of the Montreal and Lawrence Railroad , to be able to continue to connect the place. It was operated as a branch line of the Concord main line. From 1889, the Concord and Montreal Railroad ran the business, which was followed by the Boston and Maine Railroad in 1895 .
At the end of 1934, Boston & Maine stopped passenger traffic between Hooksett and Suncook, and freight traffic also ended in 1935 because the bridge over the Merrimack had become dilapidated. Although it was considered to repair the bridge, a flood in March and April 1936 washed away the bridge and in 1943 the line was finally closed and dismantled.
Route description
The line goes north of Hooksett station from the main Nashua – Concord line and runs diagonally northeast over the Merrimack River. Of the bridge, which actually consists of two parts, as the railway line crosses a river island, only the basic pillars remain. The railway line then runs northwards parallel to the river and joins the Portsmouth – Bow Junction railway line shortly before the bridge over the Suncook River .
Sources and further information
- Individual evidence
- ↑ Mike Walker: Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America. New England & Maritime Canada. SPV-Verlag, Dunkirk (GB), 1999.
- ↑ 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 .
- Web links
- Boston & Maine Historical Society (English)
- Page of the current operating company (English)