The Woburn Branch, 2 miles long, belongs to the Lowell road; the Medford Branch, 2 miles, the Methuen Branch, 3 miles, and the Great Falls Branch (in New Hampshire), 3 miles, to the Maine; the West Roxbury and Dedham Branch, 5.35 miles, and the Pawtucket Branch, 4.2 miles, to the Providence; the Brookline Branch, 1.6 miles, the Newton Lower Falls Branch, 2.5 miles, the Saxonville Branch, 4 miles, the Millbury Branch, 3.2 miles, and the Milford Branch, 12 miles, to the Worcester; the Marblehead Branch, 3 miles, the Gloucester Branch, 13.5 miles, and the Salisbury Branch, 3.4 miles, to the Eastern; the Fresh Pond and Watertown Branch, 6.75 miles, and the Lancaster and Sterling Branch, 9 miles of which are completed, to the Fitchburg. The Worcester Branch road is half a mile in length, the Bridgewater Branch, 6.5 miles, the Chicopee Branch, 3 miles, the Charles River Branch, 8.10 miles, and the Granite (in Quincy) road, 3 miles. Including these, the total length of what may be called the Massachusetts roads, is 1,260.22 miles. Besides these, there are roads in process of construction, leading from the main lines in Massachusetts into other States. During the session of 1846, the Massachusetts legislature chartered eighteen roads and branches, with an aggregate capital of $5,795,000; during the session of 1847, sixteen, with an aggregate capital of $4,822,000; during the session of 1848, nineteen, with an aggregate capital of $7,105,000, and the capital stock of the railroads already in operation was increased $3,945,000; during the session of 1849, fourteen, with an aggregate capital of $2,470,000, and the capital stock of the railroads in operation was increased $1,150,000; during the session of 1850, three roads or branches, with an aggregate capital of $740,000, and the capital stock of the roads in operation was increased $925,000; during the session of 1851, eleven roads or branches, with a capital stock of $3,320,000, and the capital stock of the roads in operation was increased $1,515,000; and during the session of 1852, eleven roads or branches, with a capital stock of $2,145,000, and the capital stock of the roads in operation, or chartered, was increased $2,240,000. By the returns on the Massachusetts roads, it appears that there were during the year, 68 casualties, by which persons were killed, or injured so that they died therefrom, and 32 casualties which did not prove fatal. Of the 68 persons killed, 24 were employees of the road. 43 were persons walking or sleeping on the track, or attempting to cross it while the trains were approaching. One person was killed in attempting to get on the cars, after they were in motion. Of the 32 not fatal casualties, 6 befell employees of the roads; 19, persons carelessly on or about the track; and 7, passengers. These seven passengers were injured in attempting to jump from the cars while in motion, except one, a lady, who was injured by the breaking of a seat in a car caused by some accident. More than 9,000,000 passengers were carried over the roads during that period. 2. Other Completed Railroads in New England, September, 1852. Sullivan (B Falls to Windsor, Vt.), 25.50 15.00 120.00 24.00 1,000,000 43.00 Wilton (Nashville to Wilton), Providence and Stonington, New Haven and New York (to in- 61.00 53.00 1,100,000 32.00 50.00 1,508,000 214,976 176,995 26.00 36.00 62.50 4,200,000 740,181 433,270 50.00 66.00 1,450,000 168,400 86,200 10.00 110.00 2,500,000 329,041 160,139 23.00 1,393.55 3. Principal Lines of Railroad in Process of Construction in New England, on the 1st of September, 1852. Name. Atlantic and St. Lawrence, From Portland to the Canada line, which it strikes at the town of Canaan, Vt., where it connects with the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad, which is open from Montreal to Richmond, 71 miles. Whole length, 156 miles. Open to Northumberland, N. H., 122 miles. Branch from Mechanics' Falls to Buckfield; length, 13 miles. The whole of the road to the State line is under contract. York and Cumberland, From Great Falls, N. H., to Portland. Length, about 50 miles. Boston, Concord, and Montreal, From Concord, N. H., via Haverhill, to a point of intersection with some one of the Montreal roads. Length, about 109 miles. Open to Warren, 71 miles. Concord and Claremont, From Concord, N. H., to Claremont, where it intersects the Sullivan road. Length, 50 miles. Open to Bradford, 25 miles. *Worked by Concord road. Contoocook Valley, Open from Contoocookville, on the Concord and Claremont road, to Hillsboro' Bridge, 14 miles. New Hampshire Central, From Manchester to its junction with the Concord and Clare mont road in Bradford. Open to Henniker, 26 miles. Cocheco, From Dover, N. H., to Haverhill. Open to Alton Bay, 28 miles. Great Falls and Conway, From Great Falls, N. H., via Rochester, to Conway. Open to Milton, 12.5 miles. Troy and Greenfield, Peterboro' and Shirley, From Greenfield, Mass., to Troy, N. Y. From Groton, Mass., where it leaves the Fitchburg road, to Peterboro', N. H. Length, 30 miles. Open to Mason Village, nearly 23 miles. The road is worked by the Fitchburg Railroad. Connecticut and Passumpsic River, From the mouth of White River, at Hartford, Vt., up Canal, Naugatuck, the west bank of the Connecticut to the State line at Canaan, where it will connect with the St. Lawrence and Atlantic road. Length, 114 miles. Open to St. Johnsbury, Vt., 61 miles. From New Haven to Springfield. Open to Traiffville, 45 miles. There is a branch now open, from Farmington to Collinsville, 7.50 miles in length. Open from Bridgeport, Conn., to Winsted, 62 miles. Providence, Hartford, and Fishkill, Open from Bristol, Conn., to Willimantic, 50 miles. 4. New York Railroads in Operation throughout their entire Length, 30th September, 1851. *Albany & Schenectady, Hudson and Berkshire, Total, 17.00 1,740,450 100,835 35.00 617,313 62,560 20,698 55,122 34,007 31.50 823,331 60,000 19,194 37,055 30,403 464.00 24,028,858 1,459,200 1,163,536 1,108,138 1,073,118 346,859 133,006 354,276 174,930 207,608 126,532 35,705 45,163 12,250 79,884 39,300 13.50 737,840 411,217 595,501 78.00 3 971.156 56,512 379,703 1,513.75 65,472,032 281,303 112,400 * Double track. These roads, with the Buffalo and Rochester, form the line between Al bany and Buffalo. † Estimated. Partly in Vermont (to Castleton). Most of the following railroads in New York are completed. The portions of the incomplete roads that have been opened are given. Franklin (Chambersburg to Hagerstown), Hazleton and Lehigh, Cumberland Vall. (Chambers'g to Harrisb'g), Strasburg (Cumb. Vall. R. to Strasburg), Little Schuylkill (Port Clinton to Tamaqua), Little Schuylkill and Susquehannah, op.20 m. Ohio and Pa. (Pittsburg to Wooster), Schuylkill Valley and Branches, Minehill (Schuylkill Haven to Tremont), Nesquehoning (to Lehigh River), . 56 1,187,749 92,755 22 13 200,000 |