Bay State Street

Company History: This line was the result of the 1911 consolidation of the Boston & Northern Street Railway and the Old Colony Street Railway. The combined system blanketed Boston and adjacent cities including routes in New Hampshire and Rhode Island. This region had the most densely packed streetcar network in the nation. While some savings were affected by the merger, it wasn’t nearly enough and the company fell into bankruptcy in 1919. The holdings in Massachusetts were reorganized as the Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway.

Successor/Parent History: The EMSRwy was established in 1919 with the reorganization of the Bay State Street Railway with streetcar lines connecting Boston (via connections with the Boston Elevated Railway) with Chelsea, Lynn, Salem, Melrose, Woburn, Quincy, Weymouth, Glouster, Lawrence, Haverhill, Lowell, Brockton, and Taunton. Conversion to bus service began in the 1920s and spread slowly across the system. The last streetcars appear to have run in 1948.

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