| | New Haven Railroad Historical Events |
| | Date | | Category | | Event |
| | 4/7/1835 | | Incorporation | TAUNTON BRANCH RAILROAD CORPORATION incorporated in Massachusetts, with |
| | authority to constcuct a railroad from Taunton to a junction with The Boston and Providence |
| | Railroad at Mansfield, Massachusetts. |
| | 4/5/1836 | | Incorporation | WEST STOCKBRIDGE RAILROAD CORPORATION incorporated in Massachusetts. Constructed a railroad from West |
| | Stockbridge to the Massachusetts-New York state line, 2.5 |
| | miles, connecting and with the Western Railroad which would become the Boston & Albany. (Company organized April 28, |
| | 4/9/1836 | | Incorporation | NEW HAVEN & NORTHAMPTON COMPANY incorporated in Massachusetts to build a CANAL from New Haven to |
| | Northampton, taking over the insolvent Farmington canal and the Hampshire and Hampden canals. (Company organized June |
| | 22, 1836.) |
| | 4/16/1836 | | Incorporation | SEEKONK BRANCH RAILROAD COMPANY incorporated in Massachusetts. Constructed a railroad from Old Wharf |
| | Point on the easterly side of the Seekonk River northerly through Rocky Point to a junction with the Boston & Providence |
| | Railroad near India Point, a distance of about 2,000 feet. (Company organized June 21, 1836.) |
| | 4/13/1837 | | Incorporation | BERKSHIRE RAILROAD COMPANY incorporated in Massachusetts. Constructed a railroad from West Stockbridge, |
| | Massachusetts to the Connecticut line near Ashley Falls, 21. 14 |
| | miles, connecting with the Housatonic Railroad. (Company organized March 29, 1838.) |
| | 4/13/1838 | | Incorporation | OLD COLONY RAILROAD CORPORATION (No. 1) incorporated in Massachusetts, with authority to construct a railroad |
| | from the terminus of The Taunton Branch Railroad at Taunton to New Bedford. |
| | 4/5/1839 | | Incorporation | HARTFORD & SPRINGFIELD RAILROAD CORPORATION incorporated in Massachusetts with authority to construct a |
| | railroad from Springfield south to the Connecticut state line, there connecting with a road authorized by Connecticut. |
| | (Company organized October 6, 1841.) |
| | 4/1/1842 | | Opening of Service | NEW HAVEN & NORTHAMPTON CANAL opened for entire length sometime during Spring. |
| | 4/1/1844 | | Opening of Service | WEST STOCKBRIDGE RAILROAD opened, West Stockbridge to New York state line, about 2.79 miles. |
| | 4/7/1845 | | Opening of Service | STOUGHTON BRANCH RAILROAD opened Canton Junction to Stoughton. |
| | 4/6/1846 | | Incorporation | HANOVER BRANCH RAILROAD COMPANY incorporated in Massachusetts, with authority to |
| | construct a railroad from the Old Colony Railroad of Abington to Hanover. (Charter lapsed and was revived April 20, |
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