The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-13
To the Honorable Board of Railroad
Commissioners Of the State of
Maine.
Maine.

Maine.
The Portland Extension Railroad Com
pany, a corporation organized under the
general laws of the State of Maine, and
having its locarion and place of business in
Portland, in the County of Cumberland, in
said State, hereby petitions your Honorable
Board for approval of tR.es location, courses,
distances and boundaries OF the electric
street railway which it proposes to build
within the city of Westbrook alittNthe town
OF Gorham,i in said county of Cumberland, as
follows:
Beginning at Station Zero (0) which rs
shown on the accompanying plan as near
the centre OF Main street in said Westbrook
and opposite the centre of Saco street and
at the end of and midway between the eX-
listing rails OF the Portland Railroad Com
pany: Thence N. "A deg. 0S min. on a line
that is continuation OF the course of said
rails 1874 feet in said Main street to station
marked +S4; thence N A. deg ~ min W in
said Main street no. feet to station marked
called leading from said Main street to the
village OF Gorham; thence N y deg. 55 min.
by said old road 5t.7 feet to station
marked . 93.1; thence 10 deg So min W by
5+I6.S; thence ID deg 40 min w by said old
road 2o5.2 feet to station marked 74-so;
thence 20 deg 81 min by said old road
1856 feet to station marked II +78.6; thence
% deg As min by said old road 2945 feet
to station marked 14+73.1; thence deg
% min by said old road 1921 feet to station
said old road 1910 feet to station marked
2o4 09.s; thence N 43 deg 40 min " by said old
road 1919 feet to station marked 22t04.7;
thence N rs deg 81 min W by said old road
1874 feet to station marked % SOL; thence
80 deg 81 min by said old road 216.S feet
to station marked 254-T5.9; thence N 50 deg Is
marked % +25; thence N 81 deg ~ min W by
said old road 1904 feet to station marked
9+25.4; thence \ &c deg o5 min W by said old
road 1880 feet TO rtatiNn markei 36t7S4;
| thence N re deg 80 lt,iD w nv said old
5l1. feet to station marked 41-tS9.S, which
station is on the division line between West
brook and Gorham; thence continuing the
same course of SO deg SO min W by said old
road in the town of Gorham "a 2 feet to sta
ton marked A t30; thence N AZ deg % min
W by said old road $3.50 feet to station
marked 54t25; thence N AZ deg 05 min W by
said old road go feet to station marked
56+45; thence N ga deg q min W by said old
road 6o6 feet to station marked CO t51; thence
So deg S6 min W by said old road 231 feet
to station marked 64+S2: thence At deg
OF min w by said old road 1918 feet to station
marked 80; thence n 46 deg 56 min W by said
thence "a deg 90 min " by said old road
675 feet to station marked 1906 +67; thence
IS deg 81 min W by said old road 500 feet TO
station marked 1l6466; thence S 50 deg II
min " by said old road 5000 feet to station
marked 147+26; thence s 81 deg OF min w by
said old road 1881 feet to station marked
road 5000 feet to station marked 1853 $50;
thence Sc deg 0S min w by said old road
461.5 feet to station marked 16S Al b; thence
S 81 deg 43 min by said old road 711.3 feet
to station marked 1874 52.8 thence S 81 deg
% min by said old road 1851 2 feet to station
marked 189-t04; thence 81 deg 20 min W by
1893 1861 thence 81 deg so min by said old
road $685. feet to station marked 200 "a.
said old road in this vicinity, through the
village OF Gorham being known as Main
street 1856 feet TO station marked z10t7o;
thence S 80 deg 90 min w in Main street 602.6
feet to station marked 216+72.6;
Being point iii Gorham Village in the
easterly line of School street produced
southerly to its intersection with the centre
line of said Main street. The above location
scription as follows to wit: All the changes
of direction Indicated by the above courses
shall be joined by standard curves peculiar
to the angle between said courses.
The turnouts that your petitioners ask for
are between the following stations, to wit:
From station Zero SOP to station 5i-76.S
From station 80 to station So
From station 62-t so to station 81 100
From station 104 to station 100
From station 142 to station 147
From station 1874 to station 1S9
Fom station 2094 "a to station 216
The widthsof location that your petitioner
| asks for is 40 right and left of the above
Indicated centre line of proposed railroad
and 40 right and left OF the centre line of
turnout tracks
Your petitioner accompanies this petition
with map of the proposed route on an
appropriate scale with the written approval
as to the proposed route and location as to
officers of the City of Westbrook and Town
of Gorham in which said railroad is to be
co instructed. and with a report and estimate
prepared by skillful engineer, to wit, f. c.
Jordan Your petitioner further says that
public convenience requires the construction
of the street railroad herein prayed 1or.
The said petitioner further, asks
that your Honorable Board will
give hearing hereon at a time and place
to be designated by said Railroad Commits
sioners after said Commissioners have
ordered such notice as they shall deem
meet.
Dated this 2Sth day of May A. D. 1896.
PORTLAND EXTENSION RAILROAD CO.
By VIM. R. Wood, President.
Attest: (sd) E. C. HARRINGTON, Clerk.