Concord and Claremont Railroad
The Concord and Claremont Railroad (C&C) is a former railroad company in New Hampshire ( United States ). It was founded on June 24, 1848 and intended to build a standard-gauge railway line from Concord , the capital of the state, to Claremont on the Connecticut River . Construction began on November 19, 1848, and in 1850 the temporary end point Bradford was reached. The route had a total length of 44 kilometers. No funds were available for further construction. On July 14, 1855, the Sugar River Railroad was established to build the remainder of the route, but again with no funding. The missing section to Claremont only went into operation in 1872.
With effect from May 1, 1853, the meanwhile C&C merged with the New Hampshire Central Railroad to form the Merrimac and Connecticut Rivers Railroad . This company was in turn leased by the Northern Railroad of New Hampshire , which also ran the business. However, the merger was dissolved again in 1859 and the newly founded Manchester and North Weare Railroad acquired the former New Hampshire Central. On October 31, 1873, the remaining Merrimac & Connecticut Rivers merged with the Sugar River Railroad and the Contoocook River Railroad to form a new Concord and Claremont Railroad , which now operated the entire route between Concord and Claremont and the branch from Contoocook to Hillsborough . The company was still under the control of the Northern Railroad , which had also taken over the interior of the vehicles.
On June 1, 1884, the Boston and Lowell Railroad leased Concord & Claremont for 99 years. This contract went on January 1, 1890 to the Boston and Maine Railroad , which had leased the Boston & Lowell in 1887. In 1945 the line was spun off together with the former Peterborough and Hillsborough Railroad as Saratoga and Schuylerville Railroad and sold to the Claremont and Concord Railway in 1954 . Today there are only short sections of the lines of the former C&C in the urban areas of Claremont and Concord, which serve as industrial connections. The section in Concord is used by Pan Am Railways , the section in Claremont is owned by the Claremont Concord Railroad .
literature
- 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 .