Talk:List of surface transit routes in the Baltimore Metropolitan Area

/Routes and their origins /Completion list /Divisions

The following articles have information from their history before they were redirected or rewritten: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 26 27 29 30 33 35 36 40 43 44 50 51 55 61 64 68 77 91 97 98 M-1 M-2 M-3 M-6 M-8 M-9 M-10 M-12 M-15 M-16 M-17

Initial numbers

Numbers were assigned in 1899.

Baltimore Traction Company

• 0 Druid Hill Avenue Line (People's Railway)
• 1 Gilmor Street Line (Citizens' Railway)
• 2 Carey Street Line and Fort Avenue Line (People's Railway)
• 3 Linden Avenue Line (Baltimore, Peabody Heights and Waverly Passenger Railway → North Baltimore Passenger Railway)
• 4 Edmondson Avenue Line (North Baltimore Passenger Railway) and Monument Street Line, Franklintown Road to Walbrook (Baltimore and Powhatan Railway) (continued to Powhatan via Windsor Mill Road until the early 1890s [1]), and Walbrook to Wetheredville via Windsor Mill Road (Gwynn Falls Railway)?
• 5 Fremont Avenue Line (Baltimore, Peabody Heights and Waverly Passenger Railway → North Baltimore Passenger Railway)
• 6 Curtis Bay Line (Baltimore and Curtis Bay Railway)
• Walbrook to Woodlawn? (Walbrook, Gwynn Oak and Powhatan Railroad)

City and Suburban Railway

• 7/8 Govanstown Line/Towson Line (Baltimore and Yorktown Turnpike) and Irvington Line/Catonsville Line (Baltimore, Catonsville and Ellicott's Mills Passenger Railway)
• 9 Wilkens Avenue Line
• 10 Roland Park Line (Baltimore Union Passenger Railway; Baltimore and Hampden Railway) and Highlandtown Line (Highlandtown and Point Breeze Railway)
• 11 Lakeside Line (North Avenue Railway on Guilford Avenue/Baltimore, Hampden and Lake Roland Railroad → Lake Roland Elevated Railway?)
• 11 Dundalk Short Line
• 12 John Street Line
• 13 North Avenue Line (North Avenue Railway → Lake Roland Elevated Railway)
• 14 Ellicott City Line (Edmondson Avenue, Catonsville and Ellicott City Electric Railway/Columbia and Maryland Railway)

Baltimore City Passenger Railway (owned by B&N)

• 15 Red Gay Street Line (Baltimore, Gardenville and Bel Air Electric Railway)
• 16 White Madison Avenue Line
• 17 Blue St. Paul Street Line
• 18 Green Pennsylvania Avenue–Canton Line
• 19 Yellow Harford Avenue Line (Baltimore and Hall Springs Passenger Railway)
• 20 Yellow Orleans Street Line

Central Passenger Railway (leased by BCPRy)

• 21 Preston Street–Caroline Street Line
• 22 Washington Street–Canton Line
• 23 Fairmount Avenue Line

Other Baltimore and Northern Electric Railway

• 24 Sparrows Point Line (Baltimore, Middle River and Sparrows Point Electric Railway)
• 25 Mount Washington Line (Baltimore and Northern Electric Railway)

Later additions

• 26 - what was the original?
• 27 Federal Street Line (1905)
• 28 Gwynn Oak Park Line (1908?)
• 29 Boulevard Line (1908)
• 30 Fremont Avenue Line (1910)
• 31 Garrison Boulevard Line (1917)
• 32 Woodlawn Line (1920)
• 33 Hudson Avenue Line (1920)
• 34 Third Street Line (1920??)
• 35 Lorraine Line (1920?)

36 was probably the first numbered bus.

List of street railway companies

This is from [2]:

• Baltimore City Passenger Railway
• Baltimore Traction Company
• Citizens Railway
• Central Passenger Railway
• Baltimore and Hall Springs Railway
• Highlandtown and Point Breeze Railway
• Baltimore, Canton and Point Breeze Railway
• Baltimore, Pimlico and Pikesville Railway
• Baltimore and Randallstown Railroad
• Baltimore and Powhatan Railway
• North Avenue Electric Railway
• Baltimore, Peabody Heights and Waverly Railroad
• North Baltimore Passenger Railway
• Peoples Passenger Railway
• Peoples Railway
• Baltimore Union Passenger Railway
• City and Suburban Railway
• Baltimore and Yorktown Turnpike Road
• Electric Storage Company of Baltimore City
• Edmondson Avenue, Catonsville and Ellicott City Railway
• Baltimore and Northern Electric Railway
• Baltimore Consolidated Railway
• Baltimore, Halethorpe and St. Denis Railway
• Columbia and Maryland Railway
• Falls Road Electric Railway
• Maryland Electric Railway
• United Railways and Electric Company
• Baltimore Transit Company

Short list of streetcar lines

• No. 0 Line Druid Hill Avenue, 1899-1920
• No. 1 Line Gilmor Street, 1899-1948
• No. 2 Line Carey Street-Fort Avenue, 1899-1948
• No. 3 Line Linden Avenue, 1899-1936
• No. 4 Line Edmondson Avenue-Monument Street, 1899-1954
• No. 5 Line Fremont Avenue, 1899-1910
• No. 5 Line Pimlico, 1916-1948
• No. 6 Line Curtis Bay, 1899-1948
• No. 7 Line Irvington-Govanstown, 1899-1931
• No. 8 Line Catonsville-Towson, 1899-1963
• No. 9 Line Wilkens Avenue, 1899-1926
• No. 9 Line Ellicott City, 1927-1955
• No. 10 Line Roland Park-Highlandtown, 1899-1940
• No. 11 Line Lakeside, 1899-1924
• No. 11 Line Dundalk, 1903-1920s
• No. 11 Line Bedford Square, 1929-1947
• No. 12 Line John Street, 1899-1938
• No. 13 Line North Avenue, 1899-1954
• No. 14 Line Ellicott City, 1899-1954
• No. 15 Line Gay Street, 1899-1963
• No. 16 Line Madison Avenue, 1899-1948
• No. 17 Line St. Paul Street, 1899-1947
• No. 18 Line Pennsylvania Avenue-Canton, 1899-1952
• No. 19 Line Harford Avenue, 1899-1956
• No. 19A Line Carney, 1904-1936
• No. 20 Line Orleans Street, 1899-1929
• No. 20 Line West Arlington, 1930
• No. 20 Line Dundalk, 1930-1936
• No. 20 Line Point Breeze, 1940-1948
• No. 21 Line Preston Street-Caroline Street, 1899-1938
• No. 22 Line Washington Street-Canton, 1899-1938
• No. 23 Line Fairmount Avenue-Back and Middle Rivers, 1899-1942
• No. 24 Line Sparrows Point, 1903-~1926
• No. 24 Line Dundalk, 1920s-1929
• No. 24 Line Lakeside, 1929-1950
• No. 25 Line Mount Washington, 1899-1949
• No. 26 Line Sparrows Point, ~1926-1958
• No. 26A Line Fort Howard, 1933?-1951
• No. 27 Line Federal Street, 1905-1938
• No. 28 Line Gwynn Oak Park, 1908-1910
• No. 28 Line Bedford Square, 1924
• No. 28 Line Lakeside, 1924-1929
• No. 29 Line Boulevard, 1908-1947
• No. 30 Line Fremont Avenue, 1910-1950
• No. 31 Line Garrison Boulevard, 1917-1952
• No. 32 Line Woodlawn, 1920-1955
• No. 33 Line Hudson Street, 1920-1924
• No. 33 Line West Arlington, 1924-1948
• No. 34 Line Third Street, 1907-1950
• No. 35 Line Lorraine, 1904?-1954
• No. 38 Line Fort Howard, 1951-1952
• No. 46 Line Union Avenue, 1940s-1949
• No. 47 Line Key Avenue, 1940s-1950
• No. 48 Line Mount Washington, 1949-1950

Company "family tree"

• United Railways and Electric Company, inc. March 4, 1899
  • United Railway and Electric Company, inc. March 2, 1899; consol. March 4, 1899
    • Baltimore City Passenger Railway, chart. February 13, 1862; consol. March 2, 1899
    • Baltimore and Northern Electric Railway, consol. March 2, 1899
  • Baltimore Consolidated Railway, org. June 18, 1897; consol. March 4, 1899
    • Baltimore Traction Company, chart. April 5, 1888; org. June 8, 1888; consol. 1897
      • Baltimore and Curtis Bay Railway, owned and operated; consol. into UR&E March 4, 1899
        • Baltimore, South Baltimore and Curtis Bay Railroad, renamed 1892
      • North Baltimore Passenger Railway, owned and operated
      • Walbrook, Gwynn-Oak and Powhatan Railroad, owned and operated; consol. into UR&E March 4, 1899
      • Baltimore and Powhatan Railway, owned and operated
      • Citizens' Railway, owned and operated
      • People's Railway, owned and operated
      • Pimlico and Pikesville Railroad, owned and operated; consol. into UR&E March 4, 1899
      • Arlington and Pimlico Railway, owned and operated

        Note: this is not the Arlington and Pimlico Railroad, a branch of the Western Maryland Railroad on Hayward Avenue, org. January 1881; opened May 14, 1881 [3]

      • Shore Line Electric Railway, owned and operated; consol. into UR&E March 4, 1899
      • Gwynn's Falls Railway, operated under contract since it opened (?) on July 1, 1896; consol. into UR&E March 4, 1899
    • City and Suburban Railway, chart. June 7, 1892; consol. 1897
      • Baltimore Union Passenger Railway, consol. June 7, 1892
      • Highlandtown and Point Breeze Railway, consol. June 7, 1892
      • Baltimore and Hampden Railway, consol. June 7, 1892
      • Baltimore and Yorktown Turnpike Road, consol. June 7, 1892
      • Baltimore, Catonsville and Ellicott's Mills Passenger Railway, consol. June 7, 1892 (?!)
      • Lake Roland Elevated Railway, chart. April 1892; purchased by C&S January 1895
        • North Avenue Railway, consol. April 1892
        • Baltimore, Hampden and Lake Roland Railroad, consol. April 1892
  • Central Passenger Railway, chart. May 6, 1881; consol. March 4, 1899
  • Baltimore, Gardensville and Belair Electric Railway, consol. March 4, 1899
  • Baltimore, Catonsville and Ellicott's Mills Passenger Railroad, consol. March 4, 1899
  • Maryland Traction Company, consol. March 4, 1899
  • Baltimore, Sparrow's Point and Chesapeake Railway, owned and leased
    • Baltimore, Middle River and Sparrow's Point Railroad, owned by UR&E; consol.
    • Dundalk, Sparrow's Point and North Point Railway, consol.
  • York Road Turnpike, owned
  • Charles Street Avenue Turnpike, owned
  • Harford Turnpike, owned
  • Baltimore and Jerusalem Turnpike, owned
  • Baltimore and Laurel Electric Railway, owned
  • Maryland Electric Railways Company, leased (Clifford to Annapolis)

• Lorraine Electric Railway, inc. April 25, 1906

• Baltimore and Bel Air Electric Railway, chart. January 12, 1903
  • Bel Air Turnpike, owned

• Columbia and Maryland Railway

• Edmondson Avenue, Catonsville and Ellicott City Electric Railway

• Pikesville, Reisterstown and Emory Grove Railroad