Nashua – Greenfield railway line

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Nashua NH – Greenfield NH, as of 1999
Society: PAR , MBRX
Route length: 41.90 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Tracks: 1
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 from Lowell
   
 0.00 Nashua NH City Station (formerly Nashua)
   
 5.99 Blood NH
   
 8.80 South Merrimack NH
   
 13.37 Amherst NH (formerly Ponemah, Danforths Corners)
   
 from Grasmere Junction
   
 15.90 East Milford NH
Station without passenger traffic
 17.72 Milford NH
   
 according to Ayer
   
 20.86 Richardson NH
   
 23.58 Pine Valley NH
   
 Souhegan River
Station without passenger traffic
 24.78 Wilton NH
   
 Souhegan River
   
 Souhegan River
   
 Connection gravel pit
   
 30.90 South Lyndeboro NH
   
 37.94 Russell NH
Station without passenger traffic
 41.90 Greenfield NH
Route - straight ahead
 after Keene

The railway Nashua Greenfield is a railway line in New Hampshire ( United States ). It is 42 kilometers long and connects the cities of Nashua , Milford , Wilton and Greenfield . The route from Nashua to Wilton is owned by Pan Am Railways , the rest is operated by the Milford-Bennington Railroad . However, the section from South Lyndeboro to Greenfield has no scheduled traffic.

history

The Wilton Railroad , founded in 1844, intended to extend the Lowell – Nashua mainline of the Nashua and Lowell Railroad to the west. Construction began in 1847 and the line opened to Danforths Corners (now Amherst) on November 1, 1848 , to Milford in 1850, and to Wilton on June 10, 1851. The further construction initially stalled here. With the opening of the line to Wilton, Nashua & Lowell took over management.

The Peterborough Railroad , founded in 1866, carried out the construction to Greenfield and was leased by Nashua & Lowell before the opening, together with the line to Wilton in 1873. On January 1, 1874, the extension to Greenfield went into operation. In 1880 the Boston and Lowell Railroad took over the management, from 1887 the Boston and Maine Railroad , which bought both parts of the line in the following years.

On September 30, 1935, passenger traffic was initially set on the entire route, but from November 5, 1936 to around 1949, a mixed train ran between Nashua and Wilton once a day except on Sundays . Until 1956, Boston & Maine operated a rail replacement service with buses along the route.

1983 took over the Guilford Transportation , from 2006 under the name Pan Am Railways , the operation and shortly thereafter stopped all traffic west of the gravel pit in Lyndeboro . She requested the closure of this section, but this was rejected. The state of New Hampshire bought the line from Wilton to Greenfield and leased it to the Milford-Bennington Railroad in 1992 , which transports gravel from the gravel pit at Lyndeboro to Milford. Between Wilton and Milford this company has a right of use for the Pan-Am route. Traffic continues to stand still between the gravel pit and the greenfield.

Route description

The line is the western continuation of the Lowell – Nashua railway line and begins at the Nashua city station. It initially leads out of the city in a relatively straight line in a north-west direction, passes the city's airport and reaches the Souhegan River at Milford . This is followed by the route westwards to Wilton, where it continues northwest along the Stony Brook . After a few kilometers past the gravel pit near Lyndeboro and the west bank of Zephyr Lake , the route reaches the end point Greenfield, where it meets the railway line coming from Keene .

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/Keene.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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