The Connecticut Company was the primary electric street railway operator in the state of Connecticut, running both urban and rural trolley lines as well as freight service. It was established on May 31, 1907, when the Thomaston Tramway was renamed following the merger of the Consolidated Railway into the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, which controlled the new company. By 1920 its system spanned eleven operating divisions and more than 600 miles of main track, linking cities including New Haven, Hartford, Waterbury and Bridgeport. Buses began supplementing its trolleys in the 1920s, and rail service steadily gave way to motor coaches; the last New Haven streetcars ran on September 25, 1948. The company ceased independent operation in May 1976, when the state of Connecticut purchased its remaining property and began operating bus service as Connecticut Transit.
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Two days later, on May 31, the Consolidated was merged into the New Haven, and the Thomaston Tramway was renamed Connecticut Company, becoming the operator of all of the New Haven's electric railway properties formerly operated by the Consolidated.
- Part Of: Rail Transport, lead paragraph describes it as an electric street railway company
In Group: North American Railroads, Lead sentence
The Connecticut Company was the primary electric street railway company in the U.S.
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