Chester County and its people .. . was changed to thePennsyl-vania and Delaware liailroad Company, and in 1873 the road wasleased by the Pennsylvania Uailroail Comi)any, by which it hassince been operated. It connects with the Baltimore CentralKailroad at Avondale, with the Wilmington and Western at Land-enberg, and with Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore llail-road near Newark. The road extends from Pomeroy to DelawareCity. The Wilmington and Western Kailroad ((muects Wilmiugtcmwith the Pennsylvania and Delaware Kailroad at Landerberg, itslength within Chester County beiiig between two an
Chester County and its people .. . was changed to thePennsyl-vania and Delaware liailroad Company, and in 1873 the road wasleased by the Pennsylvania Uailroail Comi)any, by which it hassince been operated. It connects with the Baltimore CentralKailroad at Avondale, with the Wilmington and Western at Land-enberg, and with Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore llail-road near Newark. The road extends from Pomeroy to DelawareCity. The Wilmington and Western Kailroad ((muects Wilmiugtcmwith the Pennsylvania and Delaware Kailroad at Landerberg, itslength within Chester County beiiig between two and three was opened October 19, 1872. The Pickering Valley Pailroad C(mipany was iuccn-poratedApril 3,1869, and was leased for ninety-nine years from September1, 1871, by the Pennsylvania and Beading Kailroad Company forthirty per cent, of its gross earnings. Its capital stock is .|95, road extends from Phoenixville to Station, a distance miles. The Perkiomen Kailroad Com])any was chartered Miircli 23,. A^AS^ AND PEOPLE. 517 1865, and the road was opened May 8, 1868. It was leased fromAugust 16, 1868, to May 11, 1879, to the Philadelphia and HeadingEailroad Company, the road having been completed October 11,1875. It extends from Perkiomen Junction to Emaus Junction,Pennsylvania, a distance of miles, the trac]< of the East Penn-sylvania Railroad Company being used from Emaus Junction toAllentown. Tlie company was reorganized in 1887. The Pliiladelphia and Chester Valley Eailroad Company waschartered May 7, 1888, as the successor of the Chester Valley Rail-road Company, which was chartered April 2, 1850, reviving thecharter of an old company by the name of the Norristown and Val-ley Railroad Company, incorporated April 15, 1835, to constructa railroad from some point on the Philadelphia and ColumbiaRailroad east of Braudywine Creek to a point on the Philadelphia,Germantown and Norristown Railroad near Norristown; but thiscompany, after e
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