Railway connecting Baltimore MD and Sunbury PA, US
Not to be confused with North Central Railway zone in India.
Northern Central Railway
Calvert Street Station at North Calvert and Bath/East Franklin Streets, in downtown Baltimore, built 1849-1850, razed 1949; designed by James Crawford Neilson
Overview
Headquarters
Baltimore
Reporting mark
NCRY
Locale
Pennsylvania and Maryland
Dates of operation
1858–1976
Predecessor
Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad, York and Maryland Line Rail Road, Susquehanna Railroad
Successor
Conrail
Technical
Track gauge
4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Length
380 miles (610 km) (including leased lines)[1]
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Northern Central Railway
Legend
Sunbury
Selinsgrove Junction
Sunbury and Lewistown Railroad
to Lewistown
Trevorton Railroad
to Trevorton
Herndon
Trevorton Railroad
to Port Trevorton
Georgetown
Mahantango
Buchannan
Millersburg
Lykens Valley Railroad
to Lykens
Millersburg Junction
Halifax
Clark's Ferry
Dauphin
Dauphin and Susquehanna Railroad
to Pine Grove
Rockville Branch
to Rockville
Marysville Bridge
over Susquehanna River
Main Line
to Pittsburgh
Marysville
Fairview
Bridgeport
North Cumberland
Goldsboro
York Haven
Liverpool
Emigsville
York
Howard Tunnel
Glatfelters
Smysers
Hanover Junction
Hanover Branch Railroad
toHanover
Shrewsbury
New Freedom
Freelands
Parkton
Whitehall
Monkton
Sparks
Ashland
Cockeysville
Texas
Timonium
Lutherville
Ryders
Green Spring Branch
to Stevenson and Owings Mills
Relay
Mt. Washington
Woodberry
Charles St (added 1873)
Bolton
Calvert Street Station
The Northern Central Railway (NCRY) was a Class I Railroad in the United States connecting Baltimore, Maryland, with Sunbury, Pennsylvania, along the Susquehanna River. Completed in 1858, the line came under the control of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) in 1861, when the PRR acquired a controlling interest in the Northern Central's stock to compete with the rival Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O).
For eleven decades, the Northern Central operated as a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad until much of its Maryland trackage was washed out by Hurricane Agnes in 1972, after which the Penn Central declined to repair destroyed sections and the remainder fell into disuse. It is now a fallen flag railway, having come under the control of Conrail and then the Norfolk Southern Railway.
Trackage from Camden Station in Baltimore to Timonium, Maryland, remains in service as part of the Baltimore Light RailLink line, while much of the line in Pennsylvania is operated by the Norfolk Southern for freight service. The Northern Central Railway of York, a heritage railway, operates on former Northern Central track between New Freedom and Hanover Junction, Pennsylvania.
The route between York, Pennsylvania, and the Maryland-Pennsylvania line is now the York County Heritage Rail Trail, much of which is side-by-side with still-functioning track. Torrey C. Brown Rail Trail, a similar hike/bike trail in Northern Maryland, connects with the York County Heritage Rail Trail and continues down to Baltimore either on rural roads or the old railroad grade.
^Henry Varnum Poor (1900). Poor's Manual of the Railroads of the United States. Vol. 33. New York: H.V. & H.W. Poor. p. 703.
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