User:NE2/Philly street railways

Corporate history from "Philadelphia, a Story of Progress, Volume 3"


 * Citizens Passenger Railway 1858-03-25
 * Continental Passenger Railway 1873-09-08
 * Empire Passenger Railway 1869-02-10
 * Fairmount Park Railway (listed as not yet in operation in 1917 by the Bureau of Railways)
 * North Branch Passenger Railway 1858-04-10, renamed?
 * Green and Coates Streets Philadelphia Passenger Railway 1858-04-21
 * Lehigh Avenue Railway 1873-12-18
 * Peoples Passenger Railway 1873-04-15
 * Philadelphia City Passenger Railway 1859-03-26
 * Philadelphia and Darby Railway 1881-05-02
 * Philadelphia and Darby Railroad 1857-04-28, renamed?
 * Seventeenth and Nineteenth Streets Passenger Railway 1859-04-12
 * Union Passenger Railway 1864-04-08
 * West Philadelphia Passenger Railway 1857-05-14


 * Aramingo Avenue Passenger Railway 1894-08-06 (listed as not yet in operation in 1917 by the Bureau of Railways)
 * Beach Street Connecting Railway 1902-06-19
 * Broad Street and Boulevard Street Railway 1902-12-26 (listed as not yet in operation in 1917 by the Bureau of Railways)
 * Broad Street Rapid Transit Street Railway 1901-06-10 (listed as not yet in operation in 1917 by the Bureau of Railways)
 * Brown and Parrish Street Railway 1894-05-10 (listed as not yet in operation in 1917 by the Bureau of Railways)
 * Bustleton and Byberry Rapid Transit Street Railway 1903-06-09 (listed as not yet in operation in 1917 by the Bureau of Railways)
 * Catherine and Bainbridge Streets Railway 1889-05-14
 * Cayuga and Torresdale Street Railway 1905-02-13 (listed as not yet in operation in 1917 by the Bureau of Railways)
 * Centennial Passenger Railway 1889-05-20
 * Champlost Street Connecting Railway 1923-01-10
 * Citizens Clearfield and Cambria Street Railway 1894-05-10
 * Citizens East End Street Railway 1894-05-10
 * Citizens North End Street Railway 1894-05-10 (listed as not yet in operation in 1917 by the Bureau of Railways)
 * Darby and Yeadon Street Railway 1904-06-15
 * Doylestown and Willow Grove Railway 1900-05-15
 * Bucks County Railway 1894-08-03, renamed?
 * East Aramingo Avenue Passenger Railway 1894-06-21 (listed as not yet in operation in 1917 by the Bureau of Railways)
 * Fairmount Park and Haddington Passenger Railway 1892-07-28
 * Frankford Connecting Railway 1923-05-25
 * Germantown Loop Railway 1920-03-31
 * Girard Avenue Passenger Railway 1894-05-17
 * Glenwood Rapid Transit Street Railway 1903-06-09 (listed as not yet in operation in 1917 by the Bureau of Railways)
 * Hillcrest Avenue Passenger Railway 1896-02-25
 * Huntingdon Street Connecting Passenger Railway 1894-02-15
 * Kessler Street Connecting Passenger Railway 1892-05-17
 * Mount Vernon, Shawmont and Roxborough Street Railway 1906-06-13 (listed as not yet in operation in 1917 by the Bureau of Railways)
 * Moyamensing and Southwark Rapid Transit Street Railway 1903-06-09 (listed as not yet in operation in 1917 by the Bureau of Railways)
 * Northern Passenger Railway 1890-09-29
 * Park Avenue and Carlisle Street Passenger Railway 1890-03-04 (listed as not yet in operation in 1917 by the Bureau of Railways)
 * Parkside Rapid Transit Street Railway 1903-06-09 (listed as not yet in operation in 1917 by the Bureau of Railways)
 * Pelham and Frankford Street Railway 1923-05-25
 * Philadelphia, Cheltenham and Jenkintown Passenger Railway 1892-08-09
 * Ridge Avenue Connecting Railway 1892-09-06
 * Sansom Street Connecting Railway 1920-11-18
 * Snyder Avenue Railway 1911-09-12
 * Tioga and Frankford Street Railway 1923-05-25
 * Tioga and Venango Streets Passenger Railway 1890-03-04 (listed as not yet in operation in 1917 by the Bureau of Railways)
 * Walnut Street Connecting Passenger Railway 1890-05-08
 * Wayne Junction Connecting Railway 1923-05-25


 * Darby, Media and Chester Street Railway 1906-07-05 (or 1906-06-30?)
 * Philadelphia, Morton and Swarthmore Street Railway 1899-02-24, merged 1906-07-05
 * Media, Middletown, Aston and Chester Electric Railway 1893-04-25, merged 1906-07-05


 * Frankford and Southwark Philadelphia City Passenger Railroad
 * Philadelphia and Delaware River Railroad 1854-04-04, renamed?
 * Lombard and South Street Passenger Railway 1861-04-18, merged 1893-04-15
 * West End Angora and Park Passenger Railway merged 1882-09-01
 * West End Passenger Railway 1873-04-15, renamed?


 * Germantown Passenger Railway 1858-04-21
 * Fairmount Park and Delaware River Passenger Railway merged 1866-02-15
 * Richmond and Schuylkill Passenger Railway 1859-03-26, renamed?


 * Hestonville, Mantua and Fairmount Passenger Railroad 1859-04-06
 * Fairmount Passenger Railway 1858-04-13, merged 1865-02-15
 * Fairmount and Arch Street City Passenger Railway 1858-04-16, merged 1864-12-29


 * Philadelphia and Gray's Ferry Passenger Railway 1858-04-09
 * Schuylkill River Railroad merged 1903-01-20
 * Schuylkill River Passenger Railway 1866-04-16, renamed?


 * Philadelphia and Willow Grove Street Railway 1901-01-08
 * Glenside and Willow Grove Street Railway 1903-09-10, merged 1903-12-31


 * Ridge Avenue Passenger Railway 1872-03-08
 * Ridge Avenue and Manayunk Passenger Railway 1859-03-28, merged 1872-03-08
 * Girard College Passenger Railway 1858-04-15, merged 1872-03-08


 * Second and Third Street Passenger Railway 1858-04-10
 * Frankford and Philadelphia Passenger Railway 1862-04-10, merged 1867-11-18


 * Thirteenth and Fifteenth Streets Passenger Railway 1859-04-08
 * Navy Yard, Broad Street and Fairmount Railway 1861-05-16, merged 1865-07-05


 * Twenty-Second Street and Allegheny Avenue Passenger Railway 1890-05-28
 * Chelten Avenue Passenger Railway 1889-05-20, merged 1903-12-17
 * Philadelphia and Trenton Rapid Transit Street Railway 1903-02-24, merged 1903-12-17
 * Frankford and Fairmount Railway 1899-07-07, merged 1903-12-17
 * Fisher's Lane Railway 1899-01-26, merged 1903-12-17
 * Germantown and Fairmount Park Railway 1898-02-18, merged 1903-12-17
 * Lindley Avenue Railway 1899-01-26, merged 1903-12-17


 * Electric Traction Company of Philadelphia 1893-05-08
 * Peoples Traction Company 1893-03-06 (listed as not yet in operation in 1917 by the Bureau of Railways)
 * Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company 1902-05-01
 * Philadelphia Traction Company 1883-08-22
 * Union Traction Company of Philadelphia 1895-09-06

What about the Chester and Philadelphia Railway (1910-06-29)? Market Street Elevated Passenger Railway (1902-06-08)? Marshall Street Railway? Philadelphia Railways (1911-05-13)?