Manhattan Railway
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The Manhattan Railway was an elevated railway company in Manhattan and the Bronx, New York City, United States. It operated four lines - the Second Avenue Line, Third Avenue Line, Sixth Avenue Line, and Ninth Avenue Line.
[edit] History
By the late 1870s, the elevated railways in Manhattan were operated by two companies - the Metropolitan Elevated Railway (Sixth Avenue) and New York Elevated Railroad (Third and Ninth Avenues). The Metropolitan also began constructing a line in Second Avenue.[1] The Manhattan Railway was chartered on on December 29, 1875, and leased both companies on May 20, 1879. The Suburban Rapid Transit Company, operating the Third Avenue Line in the Bronx, was leased on June 4, 1891; all three companies were eventually merged into the Manhattan Railway.[2] The Interborough Rapid Transit Company, incorporated in April 1902 as the operating company for the first subway, leased the Manhattan Railway on April 1, 1903, over a year before the subway opened.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Consolidating Rapid Transit in New York, May 23, 1879, page 2
- ^ McGraw Electric Railway Manual: The Red Book of American Street Railways Investments, 1902, p. 186
- ^ James Blaine Walker, Fifty Years of Rapid Transit, 1864-1917, published 1918, pp. 182-186
