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Originally the street railway began as two companies, both founded in 1895, the
Montague Street Railway Company and the Greenfield and Turners Falls Street Railway Company. From their inception, both companies shared common directors and within a year of their founding both would merge, taking on the
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Following a period where the system became unprofitable, its company went into receivership, closing the railway on April 1, 1924. Within a week of this however, the system was sold to the towns of
Greenfield and Montague in a joint municipal purchase of its assets for $ 75,000. The resulting
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Northampton & Amherst Street Railway company, with which the Greenfield & Northampton and Greenfield & Turners Falls companies have been merged, have completed the organization and adopte the name of the Connecticut Valley street railway
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The hearing before the selectmen of
Montague to consider the petition of the Greenfield and Turners Falls street railway company to lay their tracks in the streets of Montague will be held in Hibernian hall at Turners Falls at 2 p. m.
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latter's name. The company would assume the
Connecticut Valley Street Railway Company name with the addition of the Northampton & Amherst and the Greenfield & Northampton Street Railway companies in 1905. With the growth of
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The report filed with the supreme court by D. P. Abercrombe, receiver for the
Connecticut Valley street railway, which recommends that the lines now controled by the company be operated until April 1,
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The articles of incorporation of the new street railway company, organized at
Turners Falls Tuesday, were published yesterday. The name of the company is to be the Montague street railway company.
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in the early 1910s, the company became the first street railway in New
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439:"The Franklin Road- The Route to be Taken by the Montague Street Railway - The Temporary Directors and the Subscribers".
359:"Agreement for Buying Trolly Line; Selectmen and Receiver Abercrombie of Connecticut Valley Agree on $ 75,000 as Price".
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1910 map of the Connecticut Valley Street Railway and
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History of Greenfield: Shire Town of Franklin County
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16:Massachusetts interurban streetcar and bus system
595:Transportation in Franklin County, Massachusetts
443:. Springfield, Mass. March 21, 1895. p. 3.
640:Transportation companies based in Massachusetts
363:. Springfield, Mass. April 8, 1924. p. 8.
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498:. Brattleboro, Vt. May 5, 1905. p. 10.
476:"Greenfield - New Cases Entered in Court".
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406:The Story of Western Massachusetts
379:"Street Railways in Massachusetts"
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377:Poor, H. V.; Poor, H. W. (1901).
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420:"Railway Discontinued".
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343:References
246:interurban
134:Interurban
127:Light rail
67:Greenfield
464:tomorrow.
261:Deerfield
249:streetcar
191:Technical
157:Operation
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273:Montague
269:Hatfield
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48:Overview
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