Norton & Taunton Street Railway
1897 – 1917
- State of Incorporation
- Massachusetts
- Business Purpose
- Street Railway
- Rail Operations
- 1898-1917
- Operations In
- United States: Massachusetts
Predecessor Companies by Name Change, Reorganization or Merger
- Norton and Attleborough Street Railway Company
- to Present, Acquired
- Mansfield & Norton
- to Present, Acquired
- Mansfield & Easton
- to Present, Acquired
Timeline
- 1897
- Norton & Taunton Street Railway is chartered in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Source
Stephen P. Carlson with Thomas W. Harding, “Across the Commonwealth - The Smaller Trolley Systems,” in From Boston to the Berkshires, 123-145 (Boston Street Railway Association, Inc., 1990). - August 27, 1898
- Norton & Taunton Street Railway begins operations.
Source
Stephen P. Carlson with Thomas W. Harding, “Across the Commonwealth - The Smaller Trolley Systems,” in From Boston to the Berkshires, 123-145 (Boston Street Railway Association, Inc., 1990). - 1899
- Norton and Attleborough Street Railway Company, Mansfield & Norton and Mansfield & Easton are acquired by Norton & Taunton Street Railway.
Source
Stephen P. Carlson with Thomas W. Harding, “Across the Commonwealth - The Smaller Trolley Systems,” in From Boston to the Berkshires, 123-145 (Boston Street Railway Association, Inc., 1990). - July 1915
- Norton & Taunton Street Railway goes into bankruptcy.
Source
Stephen P. Carlson with Thomas W. Harding, “Across the Commonwealth - The Smaller Trolley Systems,” in From Boston to the Berkshires, 123-145 (Boston Street Railway Association, Inc., 1990). - 1917
- Norton & Taunton Street Railway reorganizes as Norton, Taunton & Attleborough Street Railway Company.
Source
Stephen P. Carlson with Thomas W. Harding, “Across the Commonwealth - The Smaller Trolley Systems,” in From Boston to the Berkshires, 123-145 (Boston Street Railway Association, Inc., 1990).
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Norton & Taunton Street Railway at Norton, Massachusetts
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Norton Centre, Norton, Massachusetts
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