Manchester and Lawrence Railroad

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The Manchester and Lawrence Railroad (M&L) is a former railroad company in New Hampshire and Massachusetts ( United States ).

history

The company was founded on June 30, 1847 and intended to connect the two cities of Lawrence (Massachusetts) and Manchester (New Hampshire) with a railway line. At the end of 1849, the 44 km long Manchester – Lawrence line was opened. The Boston and Maine Railroad had built the Massachusetts section . When operations opened, M&L leased this section of the route.

The Concord Railroad , which joined at the other end of the line, in Manchester, in turn leased Manchester & Lawrence from November 1, 1850 to November 1, 1853 and again from December 1, 1856 to August 1, 1867. But also after the end of the lease the Concord Railroad ran the M&L. In the early 1860s, the two companies jointly built the Hooksett Branch Railroad between Hooksett and Suncook . In 1889 the M&L founded the Suncook Valley Extension Railroad together with the Concord and Montreal Railroad , the legal successor of the Concord Railroad , which extended the Suncook Valley Railroad a few kilometers further into the Suncook Valley.

On June 1, 1887, Boston & Maine leased the Manchester and Lawrence Railroad for 50 years and at the same time took over management. On December 1, 1919, the final merger of Manchester & Lawrence with the Boston and Maine Railroad took place, which took effect retrospectively on January 1 of that year. Today only the end section from Lawrence to Salem , which is used by Pan Am Railways , remains of the main M&L route.

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