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EAGLEVILLE1
EAGLEVILLE1. This stop was established in 1850 when the NLW&P opened through the town of Mansfield. There may
have been an earlier station than this. [REFS: CRC48.1900.27: being renovated (or new?)]
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EAGLEVILLE2
EAGLEVILLE2. [REFS:
HC/02/08/1916/04 or new MANSFIELD?]
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EAST BERLIN
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| Dave Peters Collection |
EAST BERLIN. Station established by the Middletown & Berlin RR in 1850. [REFS: R48]
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EAST BRIDGEPORT
EAST BRIDGEPORT. The railroad commissioners said that a station had been established 1,800 feet east
of the Pequonnock River drawbridge [RRC5.301 (3/2/1868)] but we have never seen it on a timetable. This 1868 Beers map [right]
shows it at Pembroke St. and Crescent Ave., about the correct distance from the river. By 1875, the bird's-eye map [left]
shows only a triangular park here under the word 'Crescent.' While flag stops were often not on timetables, the size
of the footprint on the 1868 map makes it look like a fairly substantial structure. The large factory
complex to the north is the Wheeler and Wilson Manufacturing Co., which produced sewing machines and was one of Bridgeport's
largest employers. Their band was a staple at festivals, patriotic celebrations, and special occasions like the gold and silver
spike ceremony at Zoar Bridge (Monroe) in 1888 that heralded the opening of the Extension: see Track 6, MP 6.5.2 and elsewhere.
The various factories here on this side of town were probably the reason for the original establishment of an EAST BRIDGEPORT
stop, whatever its fate might have been
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EAST CANAAN
EAST
CANAAN. This stop in the town of North Canaan debuted with the CW in 1871. The image at top right looks to be from the 1920s
with some activity at the station and the one on the left, a Benton and Drake, is reportedly from 1928. The image on the middle
left is from our CTRRMAP [see link on home page] and we have put red arrows on the 1874
map on the right to highlight the corresponding points of interest. An opening-day article in the Courant lists this station as a flag stop. According to Roy and Nimke, this structure was built in 1873 and the CWN corroborates that by
saying in October, 1872 "the
depot for the East Canaan station is being raised this week." It is interesting to see the word 'station' being
used in its technical sense as the place where the train stops and the word 'depot' used for the actual structure.
The coming of the depot was not awaited patiently here, with the locals said humorously to be considering at one point to
move their village to the line of the HRR, which provided good station facilities for their towns. The CWN wrote in May,
1872 that "the good people
plead in the tearful eloquence of injured innocence, for a depot. If nothing better can be afforded for a station that sells
so many passenger tickets, won't the company coax a friendly barn up by the side of the track, to be used for depot? If
occasionally an old brown clapboard flaps about to the tune of Old Boreas, not a word of complaint will be lisped from the
lips of an East Canaanite." Finally completed in January, 1873, what the community got may not have been all that first-class.
We recently found a important document in the Turner Collection at the Connecticut Historical Society wherein the NY&NE,
who apparently was thinking of leasing the CW, did an appraisal of all the structures along the line. EAST CANAAN was said
to be in fair condition, needing $125 in repairs, and worth $600 at the time. Interestingly, passenger stations at LAKEVILLE
and NORFOLK were valued at $1500 and $1700 respectively, leading us to wonder if the station pictured here was the second
rather than the first and built after 1880. The depot location was in the southwest quadrant of the diagonal grade crossing at Rte. 44. This stop would be a lucrative one for the railroad over the
years, with the nearby Barnum Richardson operations and the marble quarries on the Erastus P. Allyn farm along the line about
a mile to the northeast. The whitened excavations are still in starkly evident today on our CTRRMAP [link on home page] snippet at lower left, where once special diamond and spindle drills were
used to cut stone blocks that were finished at the steam-powered saw mill. Some of the fine quality stone would be used for
the building of the present state capitol. Taking advantage of this local association, the CNE would choose ALLYNDALE in 1916
as the final station name for more clarity in train orders. The depot would be moved a half mile west in April, 1938 where it still serves as a residence today in 2011. [REFS: HDC/12/21/1871/02; CWN/02/23/1872/02; CWN/03/08/1872/02;
CWN/04/19/1872/02; CWN/05/24/1872/02; CWN/10/18/1872/02; CWN/11/01/1872/02; CWN/01/03/1873/02; CWN/10/31/1873/02; HDC/05/30/1874/02;
CWN/11/13/1874/02; CW/NYNE1880; D37; N3.63; R49]
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EAST DANBURY
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| Max Miller Collection |
EAST DANBURY. An newspaper article late in 1887 said
that all HRR D&N division trains, except New York expresses, would begin stopping on flag signal at this station "at
the crossing just south of Green's new hat shop" as of October 3. Tickets were to be sold from both Danbury and Bethel
at five cents each, ten cents if purchased on the train. The John W. Green Hat Shop on Shelter Rock Rd. burned on 12/7/1898
and was rebuilt, as seen in the photograph. We do not know if there was any structure here initially but there was only
a platform in later days. This location is reportedly synonymous with Cannon's Crossing, as identified in old photographs.
The different captioning at the bottom seems to suggest that the PUC itself made
more than one copy of this official inspection photograph of 11/20/1924. [REFS: DEN/10/01/1887/03]
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EAST DERBY
[> DERBY1]
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EAST FARMS
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| Dave Peters Collection |
EAST FARMS. This stop was established by
the M&W when it linked its namesake municipalities of Meriden and Waterbury in 1888. The val photo at upper left is dated
8/30/1916 and the 1915 val map at lower left shows the arrangement at
that time. Situated on the north side of the track was a platform and the home just up the hill that was bought by the railroad
and used as a depot. It is interesting that the railroad went to the trouble and expense of doing that here when most all
the other stations along this line were small enclosed shelters like EAST SUMMIT and SOUTHINGTON ROAD. The real estate card
indicates that the station and the property was sold prior to the 1925 abandonment of the line from here to West Main St.,
Meriden. Passenger service ended in 1917. As best we can figure, this location is the intersection of Pierpont Rd. and
Captain Neville Drive today, with the actual station site as well as the ROW in this area obliterated by I-84. This is seen on at lower right
on the snippet from our CTRRMAP, the link to which is found on the TCS home page. The east-west highway north
of the station on the val map is the old Plank Road built between Cheshire and Waterbury in 1852 [click here]. The M&W and the Cheshire Street Rwy interurban trolley line that opened in 1905 would parallel each other and
criss-cross this vital artery several times from The Notch
at WEST CHESHIRE all the way to the Brass City. Many segments of Plank Road are still in use and still so-named
today. [rev, adds1/1]
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EAST GRANBY
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| Dave Peters Collection |
EAST GRANBY. Note the milepost for Agawam Jct. in the photo
on the right. A newspaper article from August, 1902 said no station had been built here yet and the railroad commissioners
put this station in with the events in their 1903 annual report. An article in the Winsted Evening Citizen corroborates that "the Central
New England railroad have laid the foundations for a new depot building in East Granby at the junction of the Springfield
line with the proposed branch to Windsor Locks. It is interesting to see the reference to the WLRR; see TARIFFVILLE2 for more
comments. Nimke's textbox says 1905 for this station,
which again is in error. One of his valuable photos does show EAST GRANBY still standing in 1936. [REFS: CRC51.1903.22; WEC/06/23/1903/08;
HC/11/14/1903/05; D52; E253; N3.15]
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EAST HADDAM
AND MOODUS [> GOODSPEEDS]
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EAST HAMPTON1
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| Leroy Roberts Collection |
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EAST HAMPTON2
EAST HAMPTON2 is to
the left, north of the track, and EAST HAMPTON1, now being used as the freight depot, is on the right on the card that
is postmarked December 5, 1916. The view is reversed in the photo. The new station was completed between 1910 and 1911, according to the annual report for the
latter year. The lower left photo is the Rapallo Viaduct in East Hampton, about two miles east of the station. At 1,300 feet
in length and 60 feet in height, it was not as impressive as the Lyman Viaduct, at 1,100 feet long and 137 feet high,
a mile farther on. It was another significant engineering accomplishment, nonetheless, and made the Air Line even more celebrated
for the twin viaducts. The structure was named for Charles A. Rapallo, a NHM&W director. [REFS: NHAR37.1908.8; CRC57.1909.45; HC/10/02/1909/15; NHAR40.1911.11; R49]
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EAST HANOVER
[> HANOVER]
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EAST HARTFORD1
EAST
HARTFORD1, as seen on the 1855HC map. This stop was established by the HP&F when it opened in 1849. [REFS:
HDC/06/21/1881/02: new depot coming?]
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EAST HARTFORD2
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| Dave Peters Collection |
|
| Leroy Roberts Collection |
EAST HARTFORD2. The Courant describes the new HP&F stations built in 1850 as "neat Gothic erections"
and, while we don't know exactly what the paper meant by that style, we think this station was built in the 1880s, being
virtually identical to FORESTVILLE2 built in 1881. In spite of the fact that the newspaper said that the NY&NE had put
money aside in 1881 for a new station here, the railroad commissioners did not report until 1888 that a new depot
had been built. This station stood until at least 1929. [REFS:
HDC/11/13/1849/02; HDC/06/21/1881/02; CRC29.1882.34; CRC36.1888.16; NYNEAR 13.1888.23; SL31.3.12]
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EAST
HAVEN1
EAST HAVEN1, location seen on the 1856NH map [right]
and 1868 Beers New Haven County atlas [left]. In the latter it is marked as
a flag station, which apparently it was for the first two decades of railroad service. The stop was established in 1852
by the NH&NL.
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EAST HAVEN2
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| Leroy Roberts Collection |
EAST HAVEN2 is the 1874 station that was built on the slightly
relocated line. The older station is also shown in the panoramic photo to the right. A more significant relocation and double-tracking
of the Shore Line Division here would come in the early 1890s. The 1893 map at lower left shows this depot as well as LAKE SALTONSTALL, just to the east. [REFS: CRC21.1874.19]
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EAST HAVEN3
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| Leroy Roberts Collection |
EAST HAVEN3. [REFS:
r.e. recs: 1898, removed 11/1938]
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EAST LITCHFIELD
[> LITCHFIELD3]
******************** EAST LYME1
EAST LYME1. This station was established in the town of the same name by the
NH&N. Loocated in the village of Niantic, it is sometimes referred to as such.
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EAST LYME2
|
| Edward J. Ozog Collection |
|
| Dave Peters Collection |
EAST LYME2. This station in later days was seen on timetables as EAST LYME AND NIANTIC.
The photo at lower left shows the depot still standing amidst the wreckage
of the 1938 hurricane. [REFS: HC/03/27/1973/13:
PC to raze shelters and abandon service]
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EAST MERIDEN1
EAST MERIDEN1. This location came about when the M&W opened in 1888 but did not
become a station stop until between the 1900 timetable in Snow [p14], which does not list it, and the 1904 timetable at upper
right. This
was the point in Meriden where the 1888 M&W line branched off the old M&C and headed to Waterbury. The photo looks west, the track to the left going to the M&C's
original Center St. terminus in Meriden and the track to the right heading to West Main St. and Waterbury. There reportedly was never
a station of any kind here, only a platform, and that probably is indicated by our red arrow on the 1915 val map at lower
left. Financial
difficulties would see the MW&CR, the entity that resulted from the merger of the two companies, cease operations on 5/30/1896 and reappear as the
Middletown,
Meriden
and Waterbury
RR. Operations resumed
on 12/5/1898
as the NYNH&H Hartford Division's Meriden Branch, with trains running first between Waterbury and Meriden and, as of 1/2/1899,
to the more populous and profitable Middletown. The new owner abandoned the track from Westfield to Cromwell, much to the displeasure of that town and
Snow says it was torn out in 1903. Further economies and enthusiasm for electric power led to this point being the eastern terminus for steam service
in 1906 when, with the third-rail system just outlawed by the legislature, trolley wires were strung along the old M&C
to hook into the ones at Westfield on the Berlin branch which was also being electrified. The 1907 timetable at lower right now shows EAST MERIDEN
JUNCTION as two minutes east of EAST MERIDEN but with no difference in mileage, which seems to mean that the latter time was
for transfer to the Connecticut Co. By 1908, steam service was cut back further to West Main St. when wires were strung the rest of the
way to Broad St. on the M&C and a connection was made with city streetcar tracks. Riders were thereafter taken to the downtown railroad station
and could change cars to reach West Main St. and continue the trip by steam train to Waterbury. With the changes, the 1888 M&W trackage between these points was effectively used only for
non-passenger operations. [REFS: HC/01/01/1898/13; HC/11/07/1898/08; HC/12/08/1898/11; HC/12/31/1898/04; HC/01/18/1899/11;
HC/01/20/1899/10; HC/04/17/1901/03; NDN/02/21/1913/02; S14,20,24,25,27,29][rev1/5]
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EAST MERIDEN
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| Max Miller Collection |
|
| Max Miller Collection |
EAST MERIDEN2. Also known as Bee Street, this station is in the gray-area
category of being on a steam line but only established after service had been converted to trolley between MERIDEN and MIDDLETOWN
via WESTFIELD. Snow says says this operation by high-speed electric cars began in 1906 and lasted until 1932 when all Meriden
trolley service was replaced by buses, one of which operated along Rte. 6A, today's Rte. 66, to connect the two population
centers. [rev1/5]
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EAST NEW LONDON
EAST NEW LONDON. At least one CVT timetable [6/24/1900] we have seen mentions a stop here one mile above Union Station.
The arrows on the 1911 aero view map on the right show the likely structure and the current day map on the left shows the
plausible location. The NLN historically had extensive facilities here and just below along Winthrop Cove, even more so by
this time and was a major employer in this part of the city.
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EAST NORWALK1 [EB]
|
| Library of Congress |
|
| Dave Peters Collection |
EAST NORWALK1. The snip is from the
Landis and Hughes 1899 aerial map of the Norwalks. Click here for the LOC panoramic map collection. This station was built in 1885, as
reported by the railroad commissioners and also by the Register, which said
that construction was under way in June. The railroad's annual report said
that the station here cost $4,000 and that this stop was established for the convenience of residents in the rapidly
growing area east of the river. You have to look closely to see that the bird's-eye
artist did capture the peaks and flared eaves of this attractive and uniquely designed station. It stayed looking quite the same as seen in the murky 1939 newspaper photo. The accompanying article tells how John
Malone, "last of the old time lamp lighters," was still making his rounds in the evenings while 11,000 volts of
electricity passed by the station's front door. The aerial photo
is of the Hat Corporation of America building, with the iconic water tower on the roof that dominated the scene for years.
Also in a 1939
publication, the shot shows the station located on the eastbound side of the tracks, west of the crossing of Norwalk's
East Ave. [REFS: CRC33.1886.17; NHER/06/03/1885/01; NHAR14.1886.11;
BEP/03/19/1939; R50]
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EAST NORWALK2 [WB]
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| Dave Peters Collection |
EAST NORWALK2. The land that we know was acquired here on
11/2/1891 was for this station that was built as part of the four-tracking improvement program completed by 1897. This
station on the westbound
side is seen here in 1916, north of the mainline and east of East Ave., as shown on the map above. [REFS: RRC NYNH docs]
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EAST NORWALK3 [WB]
|
| Connecticut Historical Society |
|
| Connecticut Historical Society |
EAST
NORWALK3. The top left photo looks east at this new station that replaced EAST NORWALK2. The top right photo looks toward
the west with the Hat Corporation building in the background. The lower left is a Charles Gunn photo, taken on 6/3/1955. It looks east across the tracks
at the westbound side with the bridge over East Ave. seen just ahead of the station.
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EAST NORWALK4 [EB]
|
| Connecticut Historical Society |
EAST NORWALK4. At some point after the 1939 photo of EAST NORWALK2 was taken, the station was removed
and replaced by the small shelter seen in the distance on the east bound side of the tracks. Older folks will remember the
Factory Store in Norwalk with its signature water tower visible in the background. As one of the early discount retailers,
the Hat Corporation of America's outlet store here offered 50% off its popular headgear products in the days when everyone
still wore hats. Broader ranges of merchandise followed and the tradition continues today with the Factory Outlets at Norwalk
on the same property. The photo at right looks eastward.
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EAST NORWALK5 [WB]
EAST
NORWALK5. This 1980s westbound structure stands where its EAST NORWALK3 predecessor stood. Renovations and cosmetic improvements, including the five-sided eave windows, were completed on 5/24/2005.
[REFS: R50]
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EAST NORWALK6 [EB]
EAST
NORWALK6 is the platform and enclosure seen to the far left on the eastbound side.
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EAST RIVER
EAST RIVER. Stop
in the town of Madison established by the NH&NL in 1852.
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EAST SUMMIT
EAST SUMMIT.
The arrows on the 1893 topo map at left show the locations of the WEST
CHESHIRE (red), PROSPECT (blue) and SUMMIT (green) stations. The location for PROSPECT is
incorrect: see P stations. The style of this shelter seems to duplicate the ones at CHESHIRE STREET, SOUTHINGTON
ROAD, and WEST CHESHIRE [see C,S,W stations]. The renaming of this stop as EAST SUMMIT from the original SUMMIT, possibly
due to the ICC order of 1915, is reflected in the signboard. The photo at lower left shows
an MW&CR consist by the water tank at this station.
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EAST THOMPSON1
EAST THOMPSON1. Depot location in the town of Thompson as seen on the
1856WC map. The stop was established by the Boston & New York Central in 1863.
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EAST THOMPSON2
EAST THOMPSON2. If this is the second station here in the center, the smaller structure in the foreground may be the first.
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EAST WALLINGFORD1
This stop was established when the NHM&W opened in 1870. [REFS: HDC/10/28/1870/01:
nearly complete, plus side track for turnout; burned?; R50 thinks this is EW2]
EAST WALLINGFORD1. This was established as the NHM&W's WALLINGFORD
stop when the road opened in 1870. Track was constructed to this point in February, 1870. The Courant
said that the first station, plus a side track for the turnout, was nearly complete in October, 1870. [REFS: CR/02/05/1870/03;
HDC/10/28/1870/01; LR thinks there was an EW2]
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EAST WALLINGFORD2
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| Leroy Roberts Collection |
|
| Courtesy of The Williams Family |
EAST WALLINGFORD2.
The maps date to 1870 and 1915 [left, right]. The station is extant today, perched on a new first-story foundation as
a private home on East Center St. in the 1958 photo at lower left. The lower right photo was taken on 8/2/2010, thanks to
the hospitality of Warren Williams, who says there is one daily P&W train each way, the morning run around 9:00am. We
hope to get that shot in the near future!
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EAST
WATERVILLE [> WATERVILLE2]
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EAST WINDSOR1
EAST WINDSOR1. This stop was first seen on timetables as OSBORN. It was an
original stop on the Connecticut Central RR which began operations in 1876 as an adjunct to the CV and
thus provided service from Springfield through to Fenwick via Hartford Union Station. The photos we had here previously have
been moved to the next entry because we now think they show the second station, not the first. Reports vary on whether EAST
WINDSOR1, for which we now have no photograph, was open for business in 1876 or 1877. The Courant
reported that it was renamed EAST WINDSOR in June, 1896 and the railroad commissioners tell us that
it burned the following year. [REFS: HDC/12/23/1875/01; C/03/08/1876/02; HDC/03/25/1876/01; HDC/05/16/1877/04;
HC/06/25/1896/05; CRC45.1897.23][rev2/19]
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EAST WINDSOR2
|
| Phil Wooding Collection |
|
| C. Dunn Collection |
|
| Dave Peters Collection |
EAST WINDSOR2. The railroad commissioners noted the building of a new station
in 1897 after the old one burned. The 1915 val map at middle right shows the layout at that time. The
station is on the west side of the track, so the direction to the left is toward Springfield. The station
in all these photos appears to be the same structure. While we thought the two upper images were of the first depot, additional
input leads us to conclude that they are more likely early shots showing the north end of this second station. The other two
photos are of the south end of the same structure. The fact that there are two windows on one end and a single window on the
other is not unusual. The shot at middle left is a Benton and Drake from ca. 1930, with the iconic touring car beyond the
freight platform. The extended passenger platform in the earlier shots is gone by this time. The val photo at lower left is
dated 8/7/1916. [REFS: CRC45.1897.23][rev12/13]
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EAST WINDSOR HILL
|
| Dave Peters Collection |
EAST WINDSOR HILL. The upper left photo is a Benton and Drake from the
1930s and the shot at upper right shows a Brill car doing the passenger honors on the line probably in the 1920s when service
was down to one train per day each way. The 1915 val map has the station in the southwest quadrant at the crossing where we
have it highlighted in yellow. The buildings along the siding that ran to the east of the station are seen on the val map
and in the upper left photo. The shot that we had here as an earlier station has been determined to have been mislabeled and
is now where it belongs as SOUTH WINDSOR1. [REFS: HC/06/07/1912/04][rev12/14]
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EAST WINSTED [> WINSTED3]
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ELLINGTON
|
| Dave Peters Collection |
ELLINGTON. Stop established by the Connecticut Central RR in 1876.
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ELLIOTTS1
ELLIOTTS1. Stop established in the town of Pomfret by the BH&E in 1872.
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ELLIOTTS2
|
| Dave Peters Collection |
ELLIOTTS2
is seen above, and is on the left in the second photo with ELLIOTTS1 on the right. [REFS: CRC25.1878.36]
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ELLITHORPE
|
| Max Miller Collection |
ELLITHORPE. This is a station for which we have no photograph.
Timetables and maps from 1859 to 1900 regularly show this stop but it is no longer listed on a CVT 1927TT. If
we can count on the 1892 topo map for accuracy, the station stood at the road on the south side of the grade crossing. It
is either out of view in the 1923 PUC inspection
photo or gone altogether by that time. This line was relocated to the
west to accommodate a flood control project on the Middle River after the hurricanes of 1955. See the CTRRMAP via link on
home page for locations of both old and new lines. [REFS: HC/11/14/1958/30B]
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ELMWOOD
|
| Dave Peters Collection |
ELMWOOD.
The Courant said in 1874 that this stop would be renamed from WEST HARTFORD beginning
June 1. [REFS: HDC/05/07/1874/02]
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ENFIELD BRIDGE1
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ENFIELD
BRIDGE2
|
| Dave Peters Collection |
|
| Dave Peters Collection |
ENFIELD BRIDGE2 is
seen in the photo to the right. In the photo showing the two structures, the freight station is to the right of the tracks.
We wonder if it first served
as ENFIELD1. The val photos
at bottom show both
depots in 1916. [REFS: HC/04/20/1896/09: bridge closed as unsafe; HC/08/25/1900/12; HC/08/21/1901/07: bridge dynamited][REFS:
CRC42.1894.18]
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ESSEX1
|
| Dave Peters Collection |
ESSEX1, as shown on the 1874 Beers atlas of Middlesex County in the Centerbrook
section of town. The stop was established in 1871 when the CV opened. Max Miller says this structure was razed between 1935
and 1937. [REFS: HDC/08/25/1871/02; R51]
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ESSEX2
ESSEX2. The 1892 [MM]
former freight depot, being used by the Valley RR as its current station, is seen in the background.
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