Talk:Connecticut Company

List of routes

Much of this information is from [1] and [2].

• Stamford-Norwalk Line: Stamford - Darien - Norwalk
  • Old Greenwich - Stamford? (Greenwich Tramway)
• Norwalk-Bridgeport Line: Norwalk - Westport - Fairfield - Bridgeport
• Bridgeport-New Haven Line: Bridgeport - Stratford - Milford - West Haven - New Haven
  • Bridgeport-Derby Line/Stratford-Derby Line: Stratford - Shelton - Derby
    • East Derby - Derby - Ansonia

• New Haven-Derby Line/New Haven-Derby-Waterbury Line: New Haven - Orange - East Derby - Ansonia - Seymour - Beacon Falls - Naugatuck - Waterbury: cut November 1935 [3]; Waterbury service ended May 23, 1937 [4]

Naugatuck Valley service ended June 20, 1937 [5]

• New Haven-Waterbury Line: New Haven - Hamden - Cheshire - Waterbury: cut August 1934 [6]
  • Cheshire-Milldale Shuttle: Cheshire - Milldale

• Milldale - Meriden: combined with Milldale-Plainville [7]

• Milldale - Southington - Plainville
  • Southington - Lake Compounce
• Plainville - New Britain
• Hartford-New Britain Line: New Britain - Newington - Hartford: last ran April 25, 1937 [8]
  • Berlin - New Britain

• Waterbury-Woodbury Line: Woodbury - Middlebury - Waterbury: ended September 28, 1930 [9]
• Waterbury - Milldale (Waterbury and Milldale Tramway)
• Waterbury - Thomaston
• Waterbury - Watertown

• New Haven-Wallingford Line: New Haven - East Haven - North Haven - Wallingford (New Haven and North Haven Street Railroad?)
• Wallingford - Meriden

• Torrington - Winsted

• Middlefield - Middletown
• Middletown - Portland - Gildersleeve (Portland Street Railway)

• Hartford-Middletown Line: (Middletown along NYNH&H) - Cromwell - Rocky Hill - Griswoldville - Hartford

• Hartford - East Hartford
• Wethersfield - Hartford (Hartford and Wethersfield Horse Railroad)
• Glastonbury - East Hartford (East Hartford and Glastonbury Street Railway)
• East Hartford - Manchester - Vernon - Rockville(Hartford, Manchester and Rockville Tramway)
  • Rockville-Stafford Springs Line: Rockville - Tolland - Stafford Springs (Stafford Springs Street Railway)
• South Manchester - Manchester (South Manchester Light Power and Tramway Company)
• Unionville - Farmington - West Hartford - Hartford (Farmington Street Railway)
• Hartford - Windsor (Suffield Street Railway?)
  • Windsor - Rainbow
• Hartford - Bloomfield
• East Hartford - South Windsor

• New Haven - East Haven - Branford - Stony Creek - Guilford??: abandoned Branford to Stony Creek March 1, 1937 [10]

New London-Norwich area (leased to Shore Line Electric Railway 1913-1920 [11])

• Norwich-New London Line: New London - Montville - Norwich
• Norwich - Yantic
• Norwich-Willimantic Line: Norwich - Baltic - Franklin - South Windham - Willimantic: operated until December 1, 1936 [12]
• Willimantic-Coventry Line: Willimantic - Mansfield - South Coventry: abandoned November 21, 1926 [13]
• [Norwich along NYNH&H] - Central Village - Wauregan - Killingly - Danielson - Elmville - Putnam - Thompson - Worcester, MA (Peoples Tramway, Central Village to Wauregan)
  • Central Village - Moosup

Over NYNH&H trackage

• Middletown - Cromwell - Berlin - New Britain
• East Hartford - Manchester - Vernon - Rockville
• Norwich - Lisbon - Jewett City - Plainfield - Central Village
• Meriden - Middletown

Bristol and Plainville Tramway

• Terryville - Bristol - Plainville
• Lake Compounce - Bristol

Danbury and Bethel Street Railway

• Dodgingtown - Bethel - Danbury

Hartford and Springfield Street Railway

• South Windsor - East Windsor - Enfield - MA (Enfield and Longmeadow Electric Railway?)
  • East Windsor - Melrose - Ellington - Tolland
  • Enfield - Somers
• Windsor - Windsor Locks - Suffield - MA

New York and Stamford Railway

• New Rochelle - Greenwich - Stamford

Providence and Danielson Railway

• Elmville - RI

Shore Line Electric Railway

• New Haven? - Foxon - North Branford - Guilford - Madison - Clinton - Westbrook - Old Saybrook - Old Lyme - East Lyme - Waterford - New London
  • Old Saybrook - Essex - Deep River - Chester
• New London - Groton ?
• Groton - Stonington - RI (Groton and Stonington Street Railway)
• Norwich - Preston - Ledyard - North Stonington - Stonington (Norwich and Westerly Railway)

Other minor companies

• Danbury and Harlem Traction Company (very short-lived)
• Berkshire Street Railway (NYNH&H-controlled) - ran north from Canaan

--NE2 04:15, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

It appears that the last southwest Connecticut-Hartford line was via Cheshire, Milldale, and New Britain. New Haven-Cheshire-Milldale survived to 1936, and New Britain-Hartford to 1937. Plainville-New Britain was gone by 1936, but I don't have a lower bound, or details for Milldale-Plainville. --NE2 22:17, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Did it enter Massachusetts?

I can't figure out if the company operated from Thompson north to Webster, Massachusetts, or if that was a different company. North of Webster was the Worcester and Webster Street Railway, and the Webster and Dudley Street Railway also operated in the Webster area. [14] does not show the line, which used School Street south from downtown Webster.[15] --NE2 08:25, 2 January 2007 (UTC)