Great Falls and South Berwick Branch Railroad
The Great Falls and South Berwick Branch Railroad was a railway company based in Maine and New Hampshire ( United States ).
It was founded on July 3, 1841 as Great Falls and South Berwick Railroad and renamed Great Falls and South Berwick Branch Railroad on June 8, 1848 . They built a 9.56 kilometer branch line from South Berwick ME (now Jewett) on the Portland, Saco and Portsmouth Railroad to Great Falls NH (now Somersworth), which opened in 1855 and which was part of the Jewett – Intervale Junction railway .
The operation of the line was in serious deficit, so that traffic was stopped again in 1858. In 1861 operations were resumed. On December 30, 1848, the railway signed a consolidation agreement with the Great Falls and Conway Railroad . On June 30, 1865, the small railroad company was finally acquired by the Portsmouth, Great Falls and Conway Railroad . The railway was leased in 1870 by the Eastern Railroad , which in turn was under the control of the Boston and Maine Railroad from 1883 . The line was closed in 1941.