Newport and Richford Railroad

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The Newport and Richford Railroad (N & R) is a former railway company in Vermont ( United States ). It existed as an independent company from 1872 to 1881.

history

The company was founded on November 11, 1869 as Missisquoi and Clyde Rivers Railroad (M & CRR). They intended to build a standard gauge railway line that would connect to the Connecticut and Passumpsic Rivers Railroad (C & PRR) route in Newport and lead northwest towards Montreal . The South-Eastern Railway was founded there for the sections located in Canada . The Newport – Farnham railway line , about 35 kilometers of which belonged to the M & CRR, went into operation in 1873. In Farnham there was a siding to the Grand Trunk Railway .

In February 1875, the C & PRR leased the M & CRR together with the BCM for one year. This lease expired and the M & CRR got increasingly into financial problems. In 1880 they filed for bankruptcy and the company was taken over by the Newport and Richford Railroad , which was founded on December 9, 1880 . On June 1, 1881, the Montreal & Atlantic Railway, the legal successor of South-Eastern, leased the railway company. Later both railways went on in the Canadian Pacific Railway .

The railway is still in operation, but has since been sold to local companies. The section Newport – Richford – state line initially belonged to the Northern Vermont Railroad , which is part of the Quebec Southern Railway in Canada . Both operations were subsidiaries of Iron Road Railways . After the bankruptcy of the parent company at the end of 2002, the entire route was sold to the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway on January 9, 2003 .

Sources and further information

literature
  • George H. Drury: The Historical Guide to North American Railroads 2nd Ed. Kalmbach Publishing Co., Waukesha, WI 2000, ISBN 0-89024-356-5
  • Robert C. Jones: Railroads of Vermont, Volume II. New England Press Inc., 1993. ISBN 978-1881535027
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