Oxford Branch (Pennsylvania Railroad)

The Oxford Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) is a former railroad corridor from Clayton, Delaware through Delaware and Maryland to Oxford, Maryland. The railroad that ran on it was built in pieces from 1857 to 1871 and served passenger and freight customers in Delaware's Kent County as well as those in Maryland's Caroline, Queen Anne and Talbot counties. It went through a series of owners and operators and scaled back operations as need demanded. The section between Easton and Oxford was abandoned in 1959 and, after a period of unprofitability, operations on all but a small section of the line from Clayton to Easton ceased in 1998. In 2013, Maryland railbanked the corridor all the way to Easton. Communities along the corridor have built three small segments of trail on it, and more are planned.