Batavia, NY
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Sunday Excursion to the Falls
The Central will run a cheap excursion to Niagara Falls on Sunday over the Peanut branch. Seventy-five cents will be the round-trip fare from all stations Canandaigua to Batavia, inclusive; 70 cents from East Pembroke and Pembroke; 65 cents from Falkirk; 60 cents from Akron. The train will leave Batavia at 9a. m, and, returning,…
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Mall Service on the Lackawanna
Official information has been received at the Batavia Post office that the stage mail-service between Batavia and East Bethany will be discontinued on the 30th inst. Beginning December 1st East Bethany will receive its mail from the Lackawanna railroad, an order instituting a mail service on that road between Binghamton and Buffalo having just been…
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New Trains on the “Peanut” Branch
Two new passenger trains have been put on the “Peanut” branch of the Central between Buffalo and Batavia leaving here at 6:25 A.M. and Batavia at 2:10 P.M., and stopped at Pembroke, Richville, Falkirk, Akron, East Clarence, Clarence Center, Transit, Getzville, Tonawanda, North Buffalo and Black Rock. Source: Buffalo [NY] Evening News, 3 May 1883,…
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Railroad War at Batavia
We have not before alluded to the difficulty between the New York Central and the Buffalo, New York and Erie Railroad, in reference to the crossing of the latter over the former’s track, at Batavia, because we have wished to do neither an in justice, and have not been able to fully get at the facts. Taking the statements…