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EXETER STREET RAILWAY

EXETER, HAMPTON & AMESBURY STREET RAILWAY

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ROLLING STOCK 1897 -- 1907

OPEN CARS

No. Type Builder Year Original Trucks Original Motors Original Control Brakes Remarks
1 10 Bench Briggs 1897 Dupont C Steel Steel Hand Original equipment of the Exeter Street Railway. Two of these cars sold to an unknown purchaser in 1900 and remaining three sold to the Lewiston, Brunswick & Bath Street Railway in 1904
3 10 Bench Briggs 1897 Dupont C Steel Steel  
5 10 Bench Briggs 1897 Dupont C Steel Steel  
7 10 Bench Briggs 1897 Dupont C Steel Steel  
9 10 Bench Briggs 1897 Dupont C Steel Steel  
11 10 Bench Briggs 1899 Dupont C Steel Steel   Wrecked in accident at Hampton in 1899.
13 10 Bench Briggs 1899 Dupont C Steel Steel   Believed sold in 1905
15 10 Bench Briggs 1899 Dupont C Steel Steel   Lost in Hampton Carhouse Fire March 1, 1907.
17 10 Bench Briggs 1899 Dupont C Steel Steel    
19 10 Bench Briggs 1899 Dupont C Steel Steel   Lost in Hampton Carhouse Fire March 1, 1907.
21 10 Bench Briggs 1899 Dupont C Steel Steel   Lost in Hampton Carhouse Fire March 1, 1907.
23 10 Bench Briggs 1899 Dupont C Steel Steel   Lost in Hampton Carhouse Fire March 1, 1907.
25 14 Bench Briggs 1899 Dupont Double 2 Steel 34 Steel Hand & Air Cars owned by the Amesbury & Hampton Street Railway. All became the property of the Massachusetts Northeastern Street Railway in 1913. MNE Nos. 53 odd through 63.
27 14 Bench Briggs 1899 Dupont Double 2 Steel 34 Steel  
29 14 Bench Briggs 1899 Dupont Double 2 Steel 34 Steel  
31 14 Bench Briggs 1899 Dupont Double 2 Steel 34 Steel  
33 14 Bench Briggs 1899 Dupont Double 2 Steel 34 Steel  
35 14 Bench Briggs 1899 Dupont Double 2 Steel 34 Steel  
45 10 Bench Newburyport 1900 Dupont C Steel Steel Hand Amesbury & Hampton car to Mass. Northeastern 1913.
47 10 Bench Newburyport 1900 Dupont C Steel Steel   Amesbury & Hampton car to Mass. Northeastern 1913.
49 10 Bench Newburyport 1900 Dupont C Steel Steel   Lost in Hampton Carhouse Fire March 1, 1907.
51 10 Bench Newburyport 1900 Dupont C Steel Steel   Amesbury & Hampton car to Mass. Northeastern 1913.
55 14 Bench Briggs 1900 Dupont Double 2 Steel 34 Steel Hand & Air Renumbered 65 about 1902
57 14 Bench Briggs 1900 Dupont Double 2 Steel 34 Steel   Renumbered 67 about 1902
CLOSED CARS
2 20' Box Briggs 1897 Dupont C Steel Steel Hand Original equipment of the Exeter Street Railway. Cars 2 and 4 sold in 1904, probably to the Lewiston, Brunswick & Bath Street Railway.
4 20' Box Briggs 1897 Dupont C Steel Steel  
6 20' Box Briggs 1897 Dupont C Steel Steel  
8 20' Box Briggs 1897 Dupont C Steel Steel  
10 20' Box Briggs 1897 Dupont C Steel Steel  
12 20' Box Briggs 1899 Dupont C Steel Steel   Origin uncertain. It suddenly appeared on the EH&A roster in 1906 and may have come from the Dover, Somersworth & Rochester Street Railway.
14 20' Box Briggs 1899 Dupont C Steel Steel   Amesbury & Hampton cars: No. 16 sold to EH&A in 1909. No. 14 (as line car C-No. 1) to Mass. Northeastern in 1913.
16 20' Box Briggs 1899 Dupont C Steel Steel  
20 22' Duplex Briggs 1899 Dupont C Steel Steel    
                 
EXETER, HAMPTON & AMESBURY STREET RAILWAY
ROLLING STOCK 1908 - 1926
CLOSED CARS
No. Type Builder Year Trucks Motors Control Brakes Remarks
6 20' Box Briggs 1897 Dupont C 2-GE67 K-11 Hand [Body became a "Trolley Home" at 303 Mill Rd, Hampton, N.H.]
8 20' Box Briggs 1897 Dupont C 2-GE67 K-11   Converted to one-man car in 1921. Later Hampton Diner Kitchen.
10 20' Box Briggs 1897 Dupont C 2-GE67 K-11    
12 20' Box Briggs 1899 Dupont C 2-GE67 K-11   Converted to one-man car in 1921.
16 20' Box Briggs 1899 Dupont C 2-GE67 K-11   Purchased from Amesbury & Hampton in 1909.
20 20' Duplex Briggs 1899 Dupont C 2-GE57 K-11   Body sold to George Munsey
2 Birney Safety Wason 1919 Brill 79E 2-GE264 K-63 Hand & Air Acquired second hand in 1925 from Medway & Dedham St. Ry. Sold to Pittsburgh Railways and became PRC 8.
4 Birney Safety Wason 1922 Brill 79E 2-GE264 K-63   Purchased new in 1922. Sold to Biddeford & Saco Railroad in 1927 and became B&S 44.
14 Birney Safety Wason 1919 Brill 79E 2-GE264 K-63   Acquired second hand in 1925 from Medway & Dedham St. Ry. Sold to Pittsburgh Railways and became PRC 9.
OPEN CARS
15 10 Bench Brill 1898 Dupont C 2-GE67 K-11    
17 10 Bench Briggs 1899 Dupont C 2-GE67 K-11 Hand Purchased from Brooklyn Rapid Transit in 1907.
19 10 Bench Brill 1898 Dupont C 2-GE67 K-11    
21 10 Bench Brill 1898 Dupont C 2-GE67 K-11 Hand Purchased from Brooklyn Rapid Transit in 1907.
23 10 Bench Brill 1898 Dupont C 2-GE67 K-11   Purchased from Brooklyn Rapid Transit in 1907.
25 10 Bench Brill 1898 Dupont C 2-GE67 K-11   Purchased from Brooklyn Rapid Transit in 1907.
27 10 Bench Brill 189- Dupont C 2-GE67 K-11   Purchased from Public Service Co. of N.J. in 1909.
61 14 Bench EH&A 1908 Dupont Double 2-GE57 K-11 Hand & Air Built by George W. Fowler in EH&A shops.
63 14 Bench EH&A 1908 Dupont Double 2-GE57 K-11   Built by George W. Fowler in EH&A shops.
65 14 Bench Briggs 1900 Dupont Double 2-GE57 K-11   Formerly 55
67 14 Bench Briggs 1900 Dupont Double 2-GE57 K-11   Formerly 57
MISCELLANEOUS CARS AND SNOW PLOWS
1 22' Motor Flat EH&A   Dupont C 2Steel34 K-11    
2 20' Line Car Briggs/EH&A   Dupont C 2Steel34 K-11 Hand  
18 20' Mail&Bag. Newburyport 1900 Dupont C 2-GE67 K-11   Formerly freight car No. 12, built in 1897.
37 Nose Plow Taunton 1897   2-GE57 K-11    
39 Plow Smith & Wallace 1898   2-GE57 K-11    
41 Plow Taunton 1899   2-GE57 K-11    
P-339 Plow Wason 1900         Purchased from Eastern Mass. St. Ry. In 1921.
P-340 Shear Plow Wason 1903         Purchased from Eastern Mass. St. Ry. In 1921.
--- Flat Trailer              
EXETER STREET RAILWAY
EXETER, HAMPTON & AMESBURY STREET RAILWAY
ROLLING STOCK 1897 -- 1907
MISCELLANEOUS CARS AND SNOW PLOWS
No. Type Builder Year Trucks Motors Control Brakes Remarks
12 20' Box Freight Briggs 1897 Dupont C Steel Steel Hand Converted to line car about 1902 and renumbered 2.
18 20'Mail/Baggage Newburyport 1900 Dupont C Steel Steel    
37 Four Wheel Nose Plow Taunton 1897 Taunton Steel Steel    
39 Four Wheel Nose Plow Smith & Wallace 1898 S&W Steel Steel   Owned by Amesbury & Hampton. Later Mass. Northeastern P-5
41 Four Wheel Nose Plow Taunton 1899 Taunton Steel Steel    
43 Four Wheel Nose Plow Taunton 1899 Taunton Steel Steel    
  Motor Flat EH&A   Dupont C        
  Flat Trailer EH&A            
  Dump Cars (6)             One dump car destroyed in Hampton carhouse fire and remaining five sold to the New Hampshire Electric Railways on 9/30/07.

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