Martinsville, NY

The trolley station in Martinsville, NY. This photo is looking northeast. Just behind the station is Sawyers Creek Road (now Niagara Falls Boulevard) and the bridge was over Sawyers Creek. Photo posted by the Niagara History Center on their Facebook page.

Martinsville, NY is village in Niagara County north and east of North Tonawanda, NY. It was a station on the Erie Railroad‘s Lockport Branch. An Erie Railroad valuation map shows the station in Martinsville was located on the north side of the tracks just west of the crossing with Sawyers Creek Road (now Niagara Falls Boulevard).

History

The line was constructed in 1878 by the Lockport and Buffalo Railroad. In 1898 it was leased by the Buffalo and Lockport Railway, an electric railroad. The line was later operated by the Buffalo, Lockport and Olcott Beach Railway, the Buffalo & Niagara Electric Street Railway, and the International Railway Company. In 1951 the Erie Railroad began operating the line again and the line was operated by the Erie Lackawanna Railroad (1960 – 1976) before being abandoned in the mid-1970s with the creation of the Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail).

Clippings

Turtle in the Attic

November 18, 1909

Station Photographs

Other Photographs

Maps

Detail of a 1901 topographic map showing the route of the Erie Railroad’s Lockport Branch leaving North Tonawanda and passing through Martinsville, NY. Author’s illustration from a 1901 topographic map.

Timetables

A timetable effective June 4, 1893 of trains on the Erie Railroad Niagara Falls Branch and Lockport Branch. From an Erie Railroad System Timetable for August 1893 found on jon-n-bevliles.net.