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    The Nashua and Lowell Railroad (N&L) was a 14-mile-long (23 km) railroad built to connect Nashua, New Hampshire with the city of Lowell, Massachusetts...
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    Boston and Lowell Railroad was a railroad that operated in Massachusetts in the United States. It was one of the first railroads in North America and the...
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    constructed a rail line between the Nashua and Lowell Railroad's main line at the village of North Chelmsford and the town of Ayer, Massachusetts (then...
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    president. The founders of the new railroad were upset with the management of the Nashua and Lowell Railroad, and it was later alleged by a local newspaper...
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  • The Worcester, Nashua and Rochester Railroad was a railroad line that was to link the city of Worcester, Massachusetts, to the city of Portland, Maine...
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    leaving Lowell–Boston and Woburn–Boston service. Concord service briefly resumed in 1980–81; Woburn service ended in 1981. The Boston and Lowell Railroad started...
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    The Boston and Lowell Railroad (B&L) opened to Lowell in 1835, with a station downtown near Merrimack Street. The Nashua and Lowell Railroad opened in...
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    the name Nashua. Six railroad lines crossed the mill town, namely the Nashua and Lowell, Worcester and Nashua, Nashua and Acton, Nashua and Wilton, Concord...
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  • freight and 92 million passenger-miles. The Andover and Wilmington Railroad was incorporated March 15, 1833, to build a branch from the Boston and Lowell Railroad...
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  • Light and Power Company Massachusetts Northeastern Street Railway Nashua Street Railway Portsmouth and Exeter Street Railway Rochester Street Railroad Seabrook...
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  • Railroad. The Worcester, Nashua and Portland Division was the former Worcester, Nashua and Rochester Railroad. These railroads were owned by or closely...
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    10, 1837. Railroads first came to New Hampshire via the Nashua and Lowell Railroad, chartered on June 23, 1835, by the state to connect Nashua to the Boston...
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  • 1867, the railroad was also renamed, as the Lexington and Arlington Railroad. The Boston and Lowell Railroad purchased the line in 1870 and built a new...
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    The Framingham and Lowell Railroad was a railroad in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. It was incorporated in 1870 to provide a rail connection between...
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    renamed itself "Nashua", in 1836. The creation of a new railroad line from Lowell, Massachusetts, that ran along the northern length of the Nashua River had...
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  • Association, Dispensary, Lowell Temperance Society, and Second Universalist Parish established. 1838 Nashua and Lowell Railroad begins operating. County...
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    was incorporated April 4, 1835, as a short branch from the Boston and Lowell Railroad near Lechemere Point in Cambridge, across the Miller's River to the...
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    following railroads operate in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Bay Colony Railroad (BCLR) Connecticut Southern Railroad (CSO) (Genesee and Wyoming) CSX...
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  • split off from the Middlesex Central Branch of the Boston and Lowell Railroad in North Cambridge and through which it had access to North Station in Boston...
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    major railroad interchange since the Fitchburg Railroad opened through South Groton in 1845, followed by the Stony Brook Railroad, Worcester and Nashua Railroad...
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    line was originally part of the Worcester & Nashua Railroad that connected Worcester, Massachusetts and Nashua, New Hampshire, which was opened on July 3...
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    Clinton, and Fitchburg Railroad signed a twenty-year lease of the nearby Framingham and Lowell Railroad, which connected with the Boston, Clinton, and Fitchburg...
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    Dover and Portsmouth, and the Nashua Manufacturing Company opened their own bank, called the Nashua Bank. The creation of a new railroad line to Nashua from...
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  • lines up the Merrimack to Nashua, downriver to Lawrence, and inland to Groton Junction, today known as Ayer (renamed after Lowell patent medicine tycoon...
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    compete with the combined Nashua and Lowell and Boston and Lowell Railroads. Within 1887, the contract was terminated, and the B&M gained control of the...
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    Reading Branch #55" (PDF). Peabody's Railroads from 1850-1958. Matthew D. Cosgro. "Boston and Maine Corporation". Nashua City Station. Retrieved August 25...
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  • Railroad, two other railroads bisected Acton: the Framingham and Lowell and the Nashua, Acton and Boston Railroad. The Framingham and Lowell was part of the...
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    trestle spanning the Nashua River on the Ayer/Groton border. Tracks are intact to Townsend, Massachusetts. Worcester and Nashua Railroad in 1848 (Southern...
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    1961. p. 1. "Providence, Worcester Co. Will Take Over its Railroad". The Telegraph. Nashua, New Hampshire. Associated Press. December 20, 1972. p. 14...
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    Gen. George Stark House (category Buildings and structures in Nashua, New Hampshire)
    across northern New England. He became superintendent of the Nashua and Lowell Railroad in 1857. Design inspiration for the house came from Andrew Jackson...
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