Union Street Railway Company

It operated a railway post office streetcar route connecting New Bedford and Fall River to the main railroad station in Providence, RI.^[2][1] The whaling agent and merchant Jonathan Bourne Jr. (1811–1889) directed the Union Street Railway Company in addition to other ventures.^[3]

As of 1901, it owned 31 miles of track in New Bedford and its suburbs and operated 70 cars in the summer and 39 in the winter.^[4]

The Union Street Railway Carbarn, Repair Shop was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.^[5]