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Bombay and Moira Railroad

railway line in the United States of America

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ4940597 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Bombay and Moira Railroad is a historic railroad in New York.

The Saratoga and St. Lawrence Railroad began operations on December 27, 1888 on a line running from Moira to Bombay. The S&SL was reincorporated on March 31, 1898 as the Bombay and Moira Railroad.

The B&M was abandoned in 1900 after being purchased by the Grand Trunk Railway and torn up for scrap.

The right-of-way is still visible due to lack of property development and encroaching vegetation.

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“Bombay and Moira Railroad” enters the record as railway line in the United States of America. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bombay, Moira and Railroad can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1888, 1898, 1900—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bombay, Moira and Railroad.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4940597. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1888, 1898 and 1900.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bombay and Moira Railroad” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.