The United Railways and Electric Company was a street railway company in the Baltimore Metropolitan Area of the U.S. state of Maryland from 1899 to 1935.In May 1893, a three-stop elevated structure was opened over Guilford Avenue to carry streetcars over the Northern Central Railway. The viaduct spanned eight blocks and was discontinued in 1950.
In 1900, the company built the Power Plant in Baltimore's Inner Harbor to provide electrical power to the system. The system suffered extensive damage during the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904, but the company rebuilt under the supervision of its president, John Mifflin Hood.
United Railways declared bankruptcy in 1933. The company was reorganized in 1935 as the Baltimore Transit Company. In 1970 the transit company was absorbed into the Maryland Transit Administration, a public agency.
List of streetcar lines The date that the line was replaced with a bus or abandoned (the day after the last full day of streetcar operation) is shown.
Radiating from downtown in a clockwise order Falls Road Line: April 24, 1949 (ca. 1914 along Falls Road south of 36th Street) Roland Park Line: April 14, 1940 Lakeside Line: January 29, 1950 St. Paul Street Line: June 22, 1947 Boulevard Line: June 22, 1947 Bedford Square Line: June 22, 1947 Guilford Avenue Elevated: January 1950 Towson Line (York Road; Govanstown): November 3, 1963 Harford Road Line: June 17, 1956 (October 4, 1936, north of Parkville) Belair Road Line (Gay Street): November 3, 1963 Monument Street Line: March 21, 1948 Orleans Street Line East Fayette Street Line Highlandtown Line: July 29, 1950 Back and Middle Rivers Line: February 11, 1942 Sparrows Point Line (Dundalk): August 31, 1958 Point Breeze Line: July 25, 1948 Broadway Line: May 9, 1948 Patterson Park Line: May 1948 Highlandtown Short Line: March 5, 1950 Hudson Street Line: June 8, 1952 Canton Line (Highland Avenue): June 8, 1952 Fort Avenue Line (Fort McHenry): December 13, 1948 Ferry Bar Line: July 5, 1923 Curtis Bay Line: March 21, 1948 Westport Line: June 22, 1947 Washington Boulevard Line (Columbia Avenue): January 1, 1939 Halethorpe Line (Wilkens Avenue): November 16, 1935 Catonsville Line (Frederick Road; Irvington): November 3, 1963 West Baltimore Street Line: May 9, 1948 Ellicott City Line (North Bend; Rolling Road): June 19, 1955 (September 18, 1954, east of Catonsville Junction) Edmondson Avenue Line (Windsor Hills): November 3, 1963 Garrison Boulevard Line: June 17, 1956 Gilmor Street Line (Fulton Avenue): August 1, 1948 Carey Street Line: December 13, 1948 Pennsylvania Avenue Line: June 8, 1952 Liberty Heights Avenue Line: September 4, 1955 Park Heights Avenue Line (Pimlico; Pikesville): June 27, 1948 Emory Grove Line: July 3, 1932 Druid Hill Avenue Line: June 27, 1948 Madison Avenue Line: May 9, 1948 Linden Avenue Line: September 4, 1955 John Street Line: December 2, 1938
Cross connections and branches Bay Shore Line: September 1947 Brunswick Street Line Caroline Street Line (Central): March 6, 1938 Centre Street Line: August 1937? Dolphin Street Line: March 6, 1938 East Federal Street Line: January 1, 1939 Fairfield Line Fish House Road Line: July 30, 1932 Fort Howard Line: October 20, 1952 Fremont Avenue Line: March 25, 1950 Gorsuch Avenue Line (Waverly): June 22, 1947 Key Avenue Line: September 14, 1950 Lorraine Line: February 28, 1954 North Avenue Line: January 10, 1954 Presstman Street Line: December 15, 1919 Preston Street Line: January 1, 1939 Sweetair Line Union Avenue Line: April 24, 1949 Washington Street Line (Wolfe Street): March 5, 1950 West Arlington Line (Belvedere; Mount Washington): September 4, 1955 (September 14, 1950, east of Belvedere) Woodlawn Line (Gwynn Oak Park; Powhatan): September 4, 1955 (June 10, 1917, west of Woodlawn)
See also List of surface transit routes in the Baltimore Metropolitan Area Baltimore Streetcar Museum History of MTA Maryland
References
External links 1915 United Railways & Electric Company photo survey - Ghosts of Baltimore blog “Photograph album: Album 3 of the President's Collection of United Railways and Electric Company of Baltimore, 1910-1917.” Digital Maryland. Retrieved 2021-03-23.