Defunct railroad in Massachusetts and New Hampshire
Nashua and Lowell Railroad
A stock certificate of the Nashua and Lowell Railroad.
Overview
Current operator
Pan Am Railways
Stations called at
8
Dates of operation
1838–1880 (independent operations) 1880–1944 (as a corporate entity)
Successor
Boston and Lowell Railroad
Technical
Track gauge
4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Length
14 miles (23 km)
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. Chartered in June 1835, construction began in 1837 and the first train ran the next year. The Nashua and Lowell was the first railroad built in the state of New Hampshire.
The company was quickly successful, with large volumes of freight and passengers traveling its line; as a result, the route was double tracked in 1848. Operations were run jointly with the Boston and Lowell Railroad (B&L) from 1857 to 1878 as a railroad pool. Following the dissolution of this agreement, the N&L returned to independent operations until 1880, when the Boston and Lowell Railroad leased the entire line. The Boston and Lowell was in turn leased by the Boston and Maine Railroad (B&M) in 1887; the Nashua and Lowell continued to exist on paper until it was formally purchased by the B&M in 1944. Though the company no longer exists, its line is part of B&M successor Pan Am Railways as of 2021.
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