Kent County Rail Road
An early 1890s map of the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad showing the Kent County Railroad line | |
| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Stations called at | Clayton, Delaney's Station, Bingham's station, Massey, Lambson's Station, Black's Station, Kennedyville, Still Pond, Lynch, Worton, Chestertown, Nicholson's Station |
| Headquarters | Chestertown |
| Founders | George Vickers |
| Locale | Kent County, Maryland, Delaware |
| Dates of operation | 1870–1883 |
| Successor | Baltimore and Delaware Bay Railroad |
| Technical | |
| Track gauge | 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge |
| Length | 36 miles (58 kilometres) |
The Kent County Railroad (KRR) was a railroad company that operated in the US states of Maryland and Delaware from 1870 to 1883. It first connected to the previously existing Delaware Railroad (DRC) at its branch from Townsend, Delaware to Massey's Crossroads in Kent County, Maryland and ran through Kent County to Chestertown, Maryland. At Massey's Crossroad, later Massey's Station, it also connected to the Queen Anne's and Kent Railroad (QA&KR). In 1873 the company extended the line east to Clayton, Delaware. In 1877 the Kent County was sold at foreclosure and bought by the New Jersey Southern Railroad which, on May 12, 1883, merged it with the Smyrna and Delaware Bay Railroad to form the Baltimore and Delaware Bay Railroad.