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    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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    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 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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    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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    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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    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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