The West End Street Railway was a streetcar company that operated in Boston, Massachusetts and several surrounding communities in the late nineteenth...
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surrounding communities. Founded in 1894, it eventually acquired the West End Street Railway via lease and merger to become the city's primary mass transit...
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Cambridge Railroad (redirect from Cambridge Street Railway)
first street railway in the Boston, Massachusetts area, linking Harvard Square in Cambridge to Cambridge Street and Grove Street in Boston's West End, via...
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Boston-area streetcar lines (redirect from Boston street railway)
Boston Railroad) were all consolidated into the West End Street Railway. In 1889 the West End Street Railway experimented with electric power for its streetcars;...
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Dorchester Railroad (category Railway companies established in 1854)
terminus at State Street, with no connections to any other lines. The railroad later became a surface trolley line of the West End Street Railway and then the...
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Babcock Street and Pleasant Street. Streetcar service on Commonwealth Avenue began in 1896 under the West End Street Railway. The line passed through several...
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The Middlesex and Boston Street Railway (M&B) was a streetcar and later bus company in the area west of Boston. Streetcars last ran in 1930, and in 1972...
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the Charlestown Bridge. As the West End Street Railway electrified its lines in the late 19th century, Tremont Street was the first north-south arterial...
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January 25, 1923) was an American industrialist, the founder of the West End Street Railway Company of Boston, Massachusetts, and later the Dominion Coal Company...
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Birmingham New Street, also known as New Street station, is the largest and busiest of the three main railway stations in Birmingham city centre, England...
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Davis station (MBTA) (redirect from Elm Street station (Massachusetts))
located on Dover Street just west of Elm Street. A second route to Lechmere Square was opened in 1888 by successor West End Street Railway and electrified...
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Flinders Street railway station is a major railway station located on the corner of Flinders and Swanston streets in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It...
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original owner of the Tremont Street subway was the private West End Street Railway, later the Boston Elevated Railway. Public ownership began in 1947...
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The Worcester Consolidated Street Railway (WCSR) was a streetcar and later bus system in Worcester, Massachusetts, and surrounding areas of Central Massachusetts...
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neighbourhood" of the West End, according to the city, is the area west of Burrard Street, east of Lost Lagoon, and south of West Georgia Street. Historically...
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names: within the West Midlands region as West Midlands Railway (WMR) and outside the region as London Northwestern Railway (LNR). West Midlands Trains...
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Cleveland Circle station (category Railway stations in Boston)
Circle; it was heavily damaged by fire on December 10, 1897, and the West End Street Railway allowed the property to revert to the owner. In 1915, the route...
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Birmingham Moor Street, also known as Moor Street station, is one of three main railway stations in the city centre of Birmingham, England, along with...
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electric streetcars, elevated railways, and subways. Many streetcar lines were consolidated into the West End Street Railway in 1887. This was merged into...
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converted to bus service in 1930. In 1900, the West End Street Railway, renamed the Boston Elevated Railway, laid tracks along Commonwealth Avenue from Chestnut...
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Worcester, Massachusetts. The main line, built by the Boston and Worcester Street Railway, was an interurban streetcar line partly on the old Boston and Worcester...
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late May the 86th Street Line was placed in operation, using the West End trackage from Bath Beach to Coney Island. Some West End cars were extended...
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The Springfield and Eastern Street Railway, originally the Palmer and Monson Street Railway, was a streetcar company in the towns east of Springfield...
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Green Line E branch (category Railway lines opened in 1941)
the Metropolitan was merged into the West End Street Railway as it consolidated the various Boston street railways into a unified system. After the successful...
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Cannon Street station, also known as London Cannon Street, is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in Travelcard...
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Ponders End railway station is on the West Anglia Main Line, serving the district of Ponders End in the London Borough of Enfield, north London. It is...
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West Coast Main Line from London Euston terminates at the station, as does the original Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Journeys from Lime Street cover...
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Harvard station (redirect from Bennett Street Carhouse)
area.: 6 Following the opening of its Beacon Street line earlier that year, the West End Street Railway began electric streetcar service on the North...
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The 79th Street station is a local station on the BMT West End Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of 79th Street and New Utrecht...
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Eleventh Avenue (Manhattan) (redirect from West End Avenue)
between 22nd and Gansevoort Streets. Between 59th and 107th Streets, the avenue is known as West End Avenue. Both West End Avenue and Eleventh Avenue are...
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