Hanover Branch Railroad
The Hanover Branch Railroad Company was a railroad that operated in Pennsylvania in the mid-19th century. The company was incorporated on March 16, 1847 and began operating trains in 1852. It extended from the connection with the Baltimore & Susquehanna Railroad (later to become the Northern Central Railway, and then in 1911, the Pennsylvania Railroad) at Hanover Junction, Pennsylvania to Hanover.
Letters patent for the Hanover Branch Co. were issued in Pennsylvania on October 18, 1849. The company represents the oldest portion of the Western Maryland Railway. The railroad connected at Hanover to the Gettysburg Railroad in 1858, just prior to the Civil War.
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