Patten Junction – Patten railway line
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| Society: | lastly BAR | |||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 9.1 km | |||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks: | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||
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The railway Patten Junction Patten is a former railway line in Maine ( United States ). It was around nine kilometers long and tied the small town of Patten to the Brownville – Saint-Leonard railway . The standard gauge line has been closed since around 2000.
history
The main line of the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad (BAR), which had opened in 1893, ran south past Patten, which, however, would have liked to have a rail connection due to its industry. Because of this, local businessmen formed the Patten and Sherman Railroad to build a branch line. The 9.1 km long standard-gauge line branched off from the main line in Patten Junction, where a settlement later developed, and was opened on September 1, 1896.
From July 1, 1901, the line was owned by the BAR, which the local railway company had bought. The passenger trains always ended in Sherman and ran after the trains on the main line. Passenger traffic on the route ended around 1938; thanks to the local industry, goods traffic continued until the end of the 1990s. At the turn of the millennium, the line was finally shut down.
Route description
The line branches off from the main line in Patten Junction and ran almost in a straight line east of State Road 11. The station in Patten was on the southern outskirts. There were no intermediate stations or engineering structures.
passenger traffic
Initially, three pairs of trains ran between Sherman and Patten every weekday. The travel time in 1913 was about 20 minutes. From around 1930 the offer was thinned to two pairs of trains. Around 1938 buses took over the transport tasks.
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credentials
- ^ Mike Walker: SPV's comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America. New England & Maritime Canada. Steam Powered Publishing, Faversham 1999, ISBN 1-874745-12-9 .
- ↑ Official Guide of the Railways and Steam Navigation Lines of the United States, Porto Rico, Canada, Mexico and Cuba. Issued November 1913. Bangor & Aroostook RR. Page 149.
- ^ BAR timetables from 1906 to 1939.
literature
- Jerry Angier, Herb Cleaves: Bangor & Aroostook . Flying Yankee Enterprises, Littleton MA 1986, ISBN 0-96155-743-5 .
- George H. Drury: The Historical Guide to North American Railroads. 2nd edition. Kalmbach Publishing Co., Waukesha WI 2000, ISBN 0-89024-356-5
- Robert M. Lindsell: The Rail Lines of Northern New England. Branch Line Press, Pepperell MA 2000, ISBN 0-942147-06-5 .