Complex sentence: The line of the railway ran along the north side of the Annapolis River closer to the North Mountain and the farms there than was the Dominion Atlantic where the two railways more or less parallelled each other between Middleton and Bridgetown.
Split into simpler sentences: The line of the railway ran along the north side of the Annapolis River closer to the North Mountain and the farms there than was the Dominion Atlantic line. The two railways more or less parallelled each other between Middleton and Bridgetown.