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Connecticut Passenger Stations - Home Page
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on the letter links above for Passenger Stations.
Track 16 is a work in progress, a serious attempt to produce a complete, all-time, list of
passenger stations in Connecticut, to include the name(s) of each depot, the town in which it was built, the railroad
that built it, the date of opening and, if possible of closing and/or demise, with additional historical background, and a
photograph or two. We alternate the use of the terms 'depot' and 'station' with no difference in meaning intended.
We believe that this is something that has never been done before, though some may have attempted and given up on
this daunting task. It may well never be completed to anyone's full satisfaction in our lifetime, but we hope to make
progress based on the input of a number of individuals, but primarily that of Leroy Roberts whose knowledge of this
subject is encyclopedic. He compiled the initial list and he has provided most of the photographs at Connecticut
History Online [CHO] and the Railroad History Archive [RHA] at the Dodd Center at UConn. All photos not otherwise credited are from the Leroy Roberts collection. In the shots chosen, we look
for ones that best display the physical attributes of the structure, the signboard being one of the
most important criteria. In some cases there are several images of the same station which you can see when you search in CHO.
To find the station data, we are combing documents, local histories, periodicals, bird's-eye
maps, railroad commissioners' reports, timetables, and other materials. We are comparing images and scrutinizing
them in an attempt to find the many stations for whom no image has yet been identified. Hopefully, even as this evolves, it
will be a reference resource that will be of service to rail enthusiasts, local historians, and serious researchers in all
disciplines.
As with all TCS material, we encourage the personal and scholarly use of the
data but do not allow wholesale reproduction for any reason.
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[Codes used at TCS precede entries] PRIMARY SOURCES [All held at Connecticut State Library] Board of Railroad
Commissioners
[CRC] Annual Reports. See link on TCS home page [RRC] Records (Volumes) [RRD] Documents (Folders)
[RRL]
Correspondence [RRM] Maps
Other
Primary Sources [Ash]
Ashcroft's Railway Directory. 1864 click here [Poor] Manual of the Railroads
of the United States. Henry Varnum Poor.
1889 click here; 1894 here. [NHAR] New York, New Haven &
Hartford RR Annual Reports.
See link on TCS home page.
[RAM] State
Register and Manual. Conn. Secretary of the State. Town
statistics section listed stations and state map
in rear, ca. 1888-1932,
showed railroads and stations. RAM1907-1922 now online: click here.
Secondary Sources
[A]
Ashman, Robert and Charles Milmine. The Central New England Railroad. 1972. [B]
Blakeslee, Phillip C. Lines West: A Brief History, Camm Associates. 1974.
[C]
Turner, Gregg M. and Melancthon W. Jacobus. Connecticut Railroads. 1986.
[D]
Lord, Robert F. Country Depots in the Connecticut Hills. 1996. [E]
Springman, Mary Jane and Guinan, Betty. East Granby: The Evolution of a
Connecticut Town. 1983. [H] Hill, Everett Gleason. A Modern History of New Haven and Eastern New Haven
County. 1918. [K]
Karr, Ronald Dale. The Rail Lines of Southern New England.
1995. [N] Nimke, R.W. The
Central New England Railway Story. 3 vols. 1996. [NL] Newsletter.
Publication of the New Haven RR Historical and Technical Association. [P]
Cornwall, L. Peter. In the Shore Line's Shadow: The Six Lives of the Danbury &
Norwalk Railroad. 1987. [Q] Farnham, Elmer. The Quickest
Route: The History of the Norwich and Worcester
Railroad.
1973. [R] Roy, John H., Jr. A Field Guide
to Southern New England Railroad Depots and
Freight
Houses. 2007. [SL] Shoreliner. Publication of
the New Haven RR Historical and Technical Association. [S] Snow, Glover. "History of the
Meriden, Waterbury and Connecticut River RR.
Connecticut
Electric Railway Association, Transportation, (August, 1953) 7: 1-42.
[click here] [SAS] Lewis, Thomas R., Jr. Silk Along Steel: The Story of the South
Manchester RR. 1976. [W] Woodward, Charles G. The New
London, Willimantic & Palmer Railroad Co. 1941.
Timetables, Shipping Guides, City
Directories.
[GHD] Geer's Hartford Directory (1879-) has Connecticut
Geographical Directory
section with statewide list of railroad stations. Selected issues online via
Google Books. [GED] Geer's Express Directory and Railway Forwarder's Guide. [PTH: issue.date.page] Pathfinder Railway Guide; many issues online via Google Books:
click here; we use the old series issue number in our citations, unless otherwise noted.
[1851TT] American Railway Guide, 1851; online via Google Books
[1883TT] Price, Lee & Co., Railway Guide, vol. 4, no. 1, 1/1883
[1886TT] Rand McNally Official Railway Guide, September, 1886
[1890TT]
NYNH&H, Local, 5/11/1890, fragment at CHS; has Canal line, West Mass., others
[1892-1915TT]
[1893TT] NYNH&H
Form C, Lines West, 6/11/1893. At CHS
[1893TTT] Traveler's Official Railway Guide, June, 1893. At CHS
[1894TT] NYNH&H Form
C, Lines West, 11/18/1894. At CHS [1895TTE] NYNH&H Form
?, Lines East, 5/4/1895. At CHS
[1896TT] NYNH&H
Form C, Lines West, 8/2/1896.
At CHS [1898TT] NYNH&H, Western District, 7/1/1898. At CHS [1899TTE] NYNH&H, Eastern District, 6/11/1899.
At CHS
[1907TT]
NYNH&H Form C, Lines West, 7/8/1907 [1909TTW] NYNH&H, Western District, 10/3/1909. At CHS [1911TT] NYNH&H Form
ADV 220, Lines West, 6/4/1911
[1912TT]
NYNH&H Form 201, Lines East, 11/24/1912. At CHS
[1912TT] PTH871.7/1912 - 876.12/1912 [1913TTE] NYNH&H, Form 201, Lines East, 10/5/1913. At CHS
[1914TTE] NYNH&H, Form 201,
Lines East, 8/8/1914. At CHS
[1915TTE]
NYNH&H, Form 201, Lines East, 10/5/1915. At CHS
[1916TTE]
NYNH&H, Form 201, Lines East, 5/1/1916 .
At CHS
[1920TTE] NYNH&H, Form 201, Lines East, 10/22/1920.
At CHS [1921TTE] NYNH&H, Form 201, Lines East, 6/15/1921. At CHS
[1922TTE] NYNH&H, Form 201, Lines East, 8/7/1922.
At CHS
[1923TT] NYNH&H Form 220, Lines West, 12/2/1923 [1924TTE]
NYNH&H, Form 201, Lines East, 1/25/1924. At CHS
[1926TTE] NYNH&H, Form 201, Lines East, 9/26/1926.
At CHS
[1927TTE] NYNH&H, Form 201, Lines East, 5/23/1927.
At CHS
[1928TTE] NYNH&H,
Form 201, Lines East, 4/1/1928. At CHS [1937TT]
NYNH&H Form 200, 4/25/1937 [1947TT] NYNH&H Form 200, 6/8/1947
[1948TT] NYNH&H Form 200, 4/25/1948 [1956TT]
NYNH&H Form 200, 10/28/1956
[1969TT] Penn Central Form 200, 1/2/1969
MAPS
[BPL]
Boston Public Library, Norman B. Leventhal Map Center: click here
[LOC] Panoramic maps from the Library of Congress: click here. [RUM] David Rumsey Map Collection: click here
[1852NH] Smith's Map of New Haven County (Whiteford). County maps at UConn MAGIC: click
here. [1854NL]
Map of New London County (Baker)
[1854LC] Clark's Map of Litchfield County (Hopkins)
[1855HC]
Smith's Map of Hartford County (Woodford) [1856FC]
Clark's Map of Fairfield County (Chace)
[1856NH]
Smith's Map of New Haven County. At Orange Historical Society [OHS] [1856WC]
Map of Windham County (Woodford) [1857TC] Map of Tolland County (Eaton)
[1859MC] Map of Middlesex County (Walling) [1914CC]
Connecticut Company system map, c1914 [----RAM] Maps in Conn State
Register and Manual, c1888-1932
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