List of Rhode Island railroads

As of February 2022, a total of five railroads operate in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. Freight services are largely operated by the Providence and Worcester Railroad, which interchanges with the state's only other freight railroad, the Seaview Transportation Company, a switching and terminal railroad serving the Port of Davisville. Passenger service is provided along Rhode Island's portion of the Northeast Corridor by Amtrak, supplemented by MBTA Commuter Rail service from Wickford Junction northbound towards Boston. Rhode Island is also home to one heritage railroad, the Newport and Narragansett Bay Railroad, which operates excursions on a segment of track on Aquidneck Island which is disconnected from the rest of the United States rail network.

Freight carriers

Passenger carriers

Defunct railroads

Electric

• Bay State Street Railway
• Fall River and Stone Bridge Street Railway
• Groton and Stonington Street Railway
• Middletown and Portsmouth Street Railway
• Newport and Fall River Street Railway
• Newport and Providence Railway
• Newport Street Railway
• Norwich and Westerly Railway
• Old Colony Street Railway
• Pawcatuck Valley Railway
• Pawtucket Street Railway
• Providence Cable Tramway Company (also a cable-car line)
• Providence and Danielson Railway
• Providence, Warren and Bristol Railroad
• Rhode Island Company
• Rhode Island Suburban Railway
• Sea View Railroad
• Union Railroad
• United Electric Railways
• Warwick Railway

Not completed

• Southern New England Railway

Bibliography

• Karr, Ronald Dale (2017). The Rail Lines of Southern New England (2nd ed.). Pepperell, Massachusetts: Branch Line Press. ISBN 978-0-942147-12-4. OCLC 1038017689.

Notes

References

See also

• List of railroad lines in Rhode Island (a list of all corridors that have existed, not dealing with ownership changes)