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 Pawcatuck Valley St. R. R. Co.

BEGINNING

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1900

And until further notice cars will run on this road as follows:

Express car leave Depot at 9 A. M. and 2 and P. M. C—For Cemetery only B—For Barn only

E.P SHAW, Jr. Gen Magr.

GEORGE W. STEADMAN, Supt.

Pawcatuck Valley St. R. R. Co.

BEGINNING

THURSDAY, MARCH 29 6, 1900

And until further notice cars will run on this road as follows:

C—For Cemetery only.

B—For Barn only.

E.P SHAW, Jr. Gen Magr.

GEORGE W. STEADMAN, Supt.

Pawcatuck Valley St. R. R. Co.

BEGINNING SATURDAY JULY 4 190?

and until further notice cars will run on this road as follows:

Baggage car leave Westerly at 8 a.m. 2.30 and 6 p.m.

E.P SHAW, Jr. Gen Magr.

GEORGE W. STEADMAN, Supt.

& Westerly Railway Company about 1909 and on July 1, 1911, it was leased to the latter's successor, the Norwich & Westerly Traction Company. Because of its inability to pay a damage claim of 315,000 in 1912, the Pawcatuck Valley Street Raliway Company confessed involuntary bankruptcy and was placed in the hands of Robert W. Perkins of Norwich, president of the Norwich & Westerly, who was named the assignee of insolvency. on December 12, the property was sold under foreclosure to Harry M. Verrill of Portland, Maine. representing the Norwich & Westerly Traction Company, for $10,797. subject to the $50,000 bond issue. The Pawcatuck Valley street Railway company was merged with the Norwich & Westerly Traction company in 1915.

Groton & Stonington Sheet Railway Co.

ROBABLY the most profitable of the lines of the Norwich & Westerly system, the Groton & Stonnington Street Company was chartered in Connecticut August 17, 1903. and was authorized to build from Goroton, on the easterly shore at the Thames River opposite New London, through Noank. West Mystic. Mystic, Stonington, Wequetequock, Clarksville and Pawcatuck to the Rhode Island state line at Westerly. It also had the right to construct a local loop line in Groton.

(Noank and West Mystic are Villages in the town of Groton while Mystic, Wequetuock, Clarksville and Pawcatnck are all Villages in the borough of Stonington).

Construction began during the spring or 1904 and the first section of the road from Groton to Mystic, about 9 miles, was opened December 19 at that year. Operations from Mystic to stonington village, another 4 miles, commenced on April 3, 1905, and about a month later, on May 6, the Groton & Stonington opened the remaining 6 miles to the state line.

The line was 19,73 miles long and there was .90 mile of sidings and turnouts for a total 20.66 miles of track.

The Groton terminal of the railway was on School street, at Thames street. near the landing of the Thames Ferry company, and

SEMI-CONVERTIBLE CAR No. 102 of the Pawcaruck Valley Street Railway is shown here at Watch Hill