Companies established in 1844

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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Chapters: Railway companies established in 1844, Old Colony Railroad, Midland Railway, Neafie & Levy, Pabst Brewing Company, Pearson PLC, Furness Railway, Chester and Holyhead Railway, South Devon Railway Company, West Cornwall Railway, Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers, Nye Lubricants, Higginbotham's, North British Railway, New York and New Haven Railroad, Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, Whyte and Mackay, Waggonfabrik Fuchs, Elementis, Columbus and Xenia Railroad, Fall River Branch Railroad, Brighton Lewes and Hastings Railway, Ashton, Stalybridge and Liverpool Junction Railway, Brighton and Chichester Railway, Croydon and Epsom Railway, Sundnes Brenneri, Harden Furniture. Excerpt: The Old Colony Railroad (O.C.R.R.) was a major railroad system, mainly covering southeastern Massachusetts and parts of Rhode Island. It operated from 1845 to 1893. Old Colony trains ran from Boston to points such as Plymouth, Fall River, Newport, Providence, Fitchburg, Lowell and Cape Cod. For many years the Old Colony Railroad Company also operated steamboat and ferry lines, including those of the Fall River Line with express train service from Boston to its wharf in Fall River where passengers boarded luxury liners to New York City. The company also briefly operated a railroad line on Martha's Vineyard, as well as the freight-only Union Freight Railroad in Boston. The Old Colony Railroad was named after the "Old Colony", the nickname for the Plymouth Colony. From 1845 to 1893 the Old Colony Railroad network grew extensively largely through a series of mergers and acquisitions with other established railroads, until it was itself acquired by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad under lease agreement on March 1, 1893 for its entire 617-mile network. After this date, all trains, lines, and stations became known as the Old Colony Division of the huge "New Haven" system. During this period, the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad enjoyed a virtual monopoly on all passenger and freight rail service in southern New England. Passenger service on the New Haven Railroad's Old Colony Division ended in 1959, except for the main line between Boston and Providence, which continues to be used for passenger service by Amtrak and the MBTA. Since 1997, other former Old Colony lines have been reopened to passenger service, including the MBTA's Old Colony Lines with service from Boston to Plymouth and Middleborough/Lakeville. In 2007 MBTA passenger service was also restored on the Greenbush Line between Braintree and Greenbush Station in Scituate. The MBTA currently has plans to also restore passenger service to Fall River and New Bedford as part of its proposed South