Bath (Maine) Tram
The city of Bath in the US state of Maine had a tram service from 1893 to 1937 .
City line
First, the Bath Street Railway was built in 1893 . This inner-city electric tram line ran through the city from north to south. The northern terminus was on Washington Street about level with Winship Street. The route ran through Washington Street, Linden Street, Front Street, Center Street and again Washington Street to the level of Lamont Street, where it turned onto a separate railway body in a south-westerly direction. Webber Avenue now runs on this former track. It then ran to High Street and along it to the southern terminus at the old Winnegance Bridge, which no longer exists today. There were several industrial connections along the route, especially in the south of the city. The total length of the single-track line was just under seven kilometers. The depot of the railway was at the intersection of Washington Street and Spring Street in the south of the center.
Line of Lewiston
The Lewiston, Brunswick and Bath Street Railway (LB&B) took an overland tram service from Lewiston via Brunswick to Bath on July 28, 1898 . This route came into the city of Bath via Old Brunswick Road and ran through North Street, Middle Street, Oak Street and Front Street to the intersection of Lambard Street, where a rail triangle was built in 1907. The city line was now also led through Oak Street and the existing route through Linden Street was dismantled. The company also bought the city line and added it to their network. In the east extension of Oak Street and in the course of Commercial Street to the south, a freight line was built in 1916, which in the south of the center also had a siding to the Portland – Rockland railway line . Another freight line was built in the same year in the northern extension of Commercial Street, through northern Front Street and Bowery Street to the Kelly Spear Company premises on the riverside. This route initially belonged to the City of Bath but was sold to the tram in 1923. The depot of the overland line in Bath was built in North Street, the depot of the city line could therefore be closed.
In 1907, the Lewiston, Augusta and Waterville Street Railway took over LB&B. It was reorganized in 1919 into Androscoggin and Kennebec Railway . The city line was shut down on August 1, 1932 and subsequently dismantled. The same fate befell the overland line on May 15, 1937.
literature
- First Annual Report, Public Utilities Commission, State of Maine. Sentinel Publishing Co., Waterville ME, 1915. Pages 182-4.