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

Timeline

June 21, 1898
Benton and Fairfield Railway Company incorporates in the State of Maine.
Source
O. R. Cummings, Transportation Bulletin, April-December 1965 (National Railway Historical Society, Connecticut Valley Chapter Inc., 1965).
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.
Source
O. R. Cummings, Transportation Bulletin, April-December 1965 (National Railway Historical Society, Connecticut Valley Chapter Inc., 1965).
January 19, 1899
Benton and Fairfield Railway Company opens a 700-foot extension from West Benton to the east shore of the Kennebec River.
Source
O. R. Cummings, Transportation Bulletin, April-December 1965 (National Railway Historical Society, Connecticut Valley Chapter Inc., 1965).
July 20, 1899
Benton and Fairfield Railway Company opens an extension from the east shore of the Kennebec River to Fairfield.
Source
O. R. Cummings, Transportation Bulletin, April-December 1965 (National Railway Historical Society, Connecticut Valley Chapter Inc., 1965).
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.
Source
O. R. Cummings, Transportation Bulletin, April-December 1965 (National Railway Historical Society, Connecticut Valley Chapter Inc., 1965).
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.
Source
O. R. Cummings, Transportation Bulletin, April-December 1965 (National Railway Historical Society, Connecticut Valley Chapter Inc., 1965).
1930
Benton and Fairfield Railway Company operations cease after declining revenues of both freight and passenger traffic.
Source
O. R. Cummings, Transportation Bulletin, April-December 1965 (National Railway Historical Society, Connecticut Valley Chapter Inc., 1965).
1936
Benton and Fairfield Railway Company tracks removed.
Source
O. R. Cummings, Transportation Bulletin, April-December 1965 (National Railway Historical Society, Connecticut Valley Chapter Inc., 1965).

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Centre of Rapid Transit, Fairfield, Maine

Centre of Rapid Transit, Fairfield, Maine

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