The Baltimore and Washington Transit Company was an interurban railway incorporated in Maryland in the 1890s to connect Baltimore and Washington.[ citation needed ] It was authorized to enter Washington to a junction with the Brightwood Railway on June 8, 1896.[ citation needed ] The Brightwood's branch to Takoma ran from its main line on Georgia Avenue east on Butternut Street to Fourth Street Northwest, where the B&W began, running via Fourth Street, Aspen Street, and Laurel Street, and to the Glen Sligo Hotel and Wildwood Resort in Maryland via Carroll Avenue, Ethan Allen Avenue, and Elm Avenue.[ citation needed ] Transfers were given between the Brightwood and the B&W. [1]
An extension southwest along Third Street Northwest and Kennedy Street to the end of Capital Traction's Fourteenth Street Line at Colorado Avenue was authorized on May 29, 1908. [2] On March 4, 1914, the Maryland General Assembly changed the name to the Washington and Maryland Railway,[ citation needed ] and on May 2, 1918, it was leased by Capital Traction as the Washington and Maryland Line. [3]