Benton and Fairfield Railway Company

1898 – Unknown

Business Type
Corporation

State of Incorporation
Maine

Business Purpose
Street Railway

Rail Operations
1898-1930

Operations In
United States: Maine

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June 21, 1898: Benton and Fairfield Railway Company incorporates in the State of Maine.
December 6, 1898: Benton and Fairfield Railway Company begins operation of a three-mile electric street railway between the Maine Central Railroad's Benton station in West Benton to the Sebasticook River at Benton Falls.
January 19, 1899: Benton and Fairfield Railway Company opens a 700-foot extension from West Benton to the east shore of the Kennebec River.
July 20, 1899: Benton and Fairfield Railway Company opens an extension from the east shore of the Kennebec River to Fairfield.
May 11, 1900: Benton and Fairfield Railway Company receives certificate of safety to begin operations on an extension from Bridge Street to a connection with the Maine Central Railroad's Skowhegan Branch.
November 13, 1900: Benton and Fairfield Railway Company receives certificate of safety to begin operations on a 0.13-mile extension across the Sebasticook River at Benton Falls to the Somerset and Kennebec paper mills.
1930: Benton and Fairfield Railway Company operations cease after declining revenues of both freight and passenger traffic.
1936: Benton and Fairfield Railway Company tracks removed.

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