List of streetcar lines in Westchester County, New York
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Westchester County, New York Westchester County is located in the U.S. state of New York. It is the seventh most populous county in the State of New York and the most populous north of New York City. According to the 2020 United States Census, the county had a population ...
. Many systems in Westchester eventually came under control of either the
Third Avenue Railway The Third Avenue Railway System (TARS), founded 1852, was a streetcar system serving the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx along with lower Westchester County. For a brief period of time, TARS also operated the Steinway Lines i ...
,Third Avenue Railroad System Map; 1922 (WorldNYCSubway.org)
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Fifth Avenue Coach Company The Fifth Avenue Coach Company was a bus operator in Manhattan, The Bronx, Queens, and Westchester County, New York, providing public transit between 1896 and 1954 after which services were taken over by the New York City Omnibus Corporation. ...
, or the
Connecticut Company The Connecticut Company was the primary electric street railway company in the U.S. state of Connecticut, operating both city and rural trolleys and freight service. It was controlled by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (New Haven), ...
-owned
New York and Stamford Railway The New York and Stamford Railway was a streetcar line that connected the Westchester County suburbs of New Rochelle, Larchmont, Mamaroneck, Harrison, Rye, and Port Chester, with the Connecticut suburbs of Greenwich and Stamford. The company was ...
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Streetcar Lines in Westchester County

* Ossining Electric Railway * Westchester Traction Company (successor to Ossining Electric Railway) * Hudson River and Eastern Traction Company (Ossining) * Peekskill Lighting and Railroad Company (successor to Peekskill Traction Company) * Putnam and Westchester Traction Company (
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and Putnam Valley) *
New York and Stamford Railway The New York and Stamford Railway was a streetcar line that connected the Westchester County suburbs of New Rochelle, Larchmont, Mamaroneck, Harrison, Rye, and Port Chester, with the Connecticut suburbs of Greenwich and Stamford. The company was ...
* Tarrytown, White Plains and Mamaroneck Railway (successor to the New York, Elmsford and White Plains Railway) * Yonkers Railroad (a consolidation of the North and South Electric Railway and the Yonkers and Tarrytown Electric Railroad) *
Third Avenue Railway The Third Avenue Railway System (TARS), founded 1852, was a streetcar system serving the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx along with lower Westchester County. For a brief period of time, TARS also operated the Steinway Lines i ...
* New York, Westchester and Connecticut Traction (
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and Pelham) * Westchester Electric Railroad (combination of the Mount Vernon and Eastchester Railway and the New Rochelle Railway Transit Company) * Goldens Bridge Electric Railway of New York


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