List of railroad lines in Massachusetts
This is a list of all
These railroads were owned by or closely related to the Boston and Albany Railroad, later part of the New York Central Railroad.
Name | From | To | Branches | Notes |
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Boston and Worcester Railroad
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Boston
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Worcester | Brookline Branch, | Framingham Branch became part of the NYNH&H
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Chester and Becket Railroad | Chester | Becket | ||
Grand Junction Railroad | Allston
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East Boston |
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North Brookfield Railroad | East Brookfield | North Brookfield | ||
Pittsfield and North Adams Railroad | North Adams Junction | North Adams | ||
Providence, Webster and Springfield Railroad | Webster Junction | Webster | East Village Branch, Webster Mills to East Village | |
Spencer Railroad | South Spencer | Spencer | ||
Springfield, Athol and North-eastern Railroad | Athol Junction | Athol | ||
Ware River Railroad
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Palmer | Winchendon | Massachusetts Central Railroad today, operating between Palmer and South Barre | |
Western Railroad
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Worcester | New York state line in West Stockbridge |
These railroads were owned by or closely related to the Boston and Maine Railroad.
Connecticut River Division
The Connecticut River Division was the former Connecticut River Railroad.
Name | From | To | Branches | Notes |
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Connecticut River Railroad | Springfield | Vermont state line in Northfield | Chicopee Falls Branch, Chicopee Falls East Deerfield Branch, Deerfield Junction to East Deerfield Easthampton Branch, Mount Tom to Easthampton |
Eastern Division
The Eastern Division was the former
Name | From | To | Branches | Notes |
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Asbury Grove Railroad | Wenham | Asbury Grove |
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Chelsea Beach Railroad | Oak Island Junction | Saugus River Junction | ||
Eastern Railroad
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East Boston
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New Hampshire state line in Salisbury | Amesbury Branch, Boston Essex Branch, Wenham to Essex Gloucester Branch, Beverly Junction to Rockport Marblehead Branch, Castle Hill to Marblehead Swampscott Branch, Swampscott to Marblehead |
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Essex Branch Railroad | Salem | North Andover | Salem Harbor Branch, Salem to Salem Harbor | |
Newburyport City Railroad | Newburyport | Newburyport Wharf | ||
Saugus Branch Railroad | West Lynn
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Everett | ||
South Reading Branch Railroad | Peabody | Wakefield |
Fitchburg Division
The Fitchburg Division was the former Fitchburg Railroad.
Southern Division
The Southern Division was the former Boston and Lowell Railroad.
Name | From | To | Branches | Notes |
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Andover and Haverhill Railroad
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Andover | Bradford | ||
Andover and Wilmington Railroad
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Wilmington | Andover | ||
Billerica and Bedford Railroad | North Billerica | Bedford | ||
Boston and Lowell Railroad | Boston
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Lowell | Mystic River Branch in Charlestown to Lake Streetbranch, Somerville Junction |
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Central Massachusetts Railroad | North Cambridge Junction | Northampton | ||
Horn Pond Branch Railroad | Horn Pond | Woburn | ||
Lexington and West Cambridge Railroad | West Cambridge | Lexington | aka: Lexington and Arlington Railroad | |
Lowell and Lawrence Railroad | Lowell | Lawrence | ||
Lowell and Nashua Railroad | Lowell | New Hampshire state line in Tyngsborough | ||
Middlesex Central Railroad
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Lexington | Middlesex Junction | ||
Salem and Lowell Railroad | Tewksbury Junction | Peabody | ||
Stoneham Branch Railroad | East Woburn | Stoneham | ||
Stony Brook Railroad | Chelmsford | Ayer | ||
Woburn Branch Railroad | Winchester | Woburn | ||
Woburn Branch Extension Railroad | Woburn | North Woburn Junction |
Western Division
The Western Division was the original Boston and Maine Railroad.
Name | From | To | Branches | Notes |
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Boston and Maine Extension Railroad
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Boston
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Wilmington Junction | ||
Boston and Portland Railroad
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Wilmington | New Hampshire state line in Haverhill | Methuen Branch, Lawrence to New Hampshire state line in Methuen | |
Danvers Railroad | Wakefield | Danvers Junction | ||
Danvers and Georgetown Railroad | Danvers Junction | Georgetown | ||
Lowell and Andover Railroad | Lowell Junction | Lowell | ||
Medford branch | Medford Junction | Medford Square | ||
Nashua, Acton and Boston Railroad | Acton | New Hampshire state line in Dunstable | ||
Newburyport Railroad | Bradford | Newburyport | ||
West Amesbury Branch Railroad | Merrimac | New Hampshire state line in Merrimac |
Worcester, Nashua and Portland Division
The Worcester, Nashua and Portland Division was the former Worcester, Nashua and Rochester Railroad.
Name | From | To | Branches | Notes |
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Worcester and Nashua Railroad
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Worcester | New Hampshire state line in Dunstable |
These railroads were owned by or closely related to the
Name | From | To | Branches | Notes |
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Flynt's Granite Branch Railroad | Monson | Flynt Quarry )
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not owned by the Central Vermont | |
New London Northern Railroad | Connecticut state line in Monson | Millers Falls | ||
Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad
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Millers Falls | Vermont state line in Northfield | The rest of the V&M became part of the Boston and Maine Railroad. |
These railroads were owned by or closely related to the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.
Berkshire Division
The Berkshire Division was the former
Name | From | To | Branches | Notes |
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Berkshire Railroad
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West Stockbridge | Connecticut state line in Sheffield | ||
Stockbridge and Pittsfield Railroad
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Van Deusenville | Pittsfield | ||
West Stockbridge Railroad
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West Stockbridge | New York state line in West Stockbridge (at the Boston and Albany Railroad junction) |
Central New England Division
The Central New England Division was the former Central New England Railway.
Name | From | To | Branches | Notes |
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Central New England Railway Springfield Branch | Connecticut state line in Agawam | Agawam Junction |
Hartford Division
The Hartford Division was the former Hartford and New Haven Railroad.
Name | From | To | Branches | Notes |
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Hartford and Springfield Railroad
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Connecticut state line in Longmeadow | Springfield |
Midland Division
The Midland Division was the former
Northampton Division
The Northampton Division was the former
Name | From | To | Branches | Notes |
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Holyoke and Westfield Railroad | Holyoke | Westfield | ||
New Haven and Northampton Company
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Connecticut state line in Southwick | Shelburne Junction | Turner's Falls Branch, South Deerfield to Turners Falls Williamsburg Branch, Williamsburg Junction to Williamsburg |
Old Colony Division
The Old Colony Division was the former Old Colony Railroad.
Providence and Worcester Division
The Providence and Worcester Division was the former Providence and Worcester Railroad.
Name | From | To | Branches | Notes |
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Providence and Worcester Railroad | Connecticut state line in Blackstone | Worcester |
Other railroads
Name | From | To | Branches | Notes |
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Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad | East Boston
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Lynn | Winthrop Branch, Orient Heights to loop through Winthrop
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see also Eastern Junction, Broad Sound Pier and Point Shirley Railroad , which built lines and later abandoned them
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Cape Ann Granite Railroad | Pigeon Cove Harbor | quarries |
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Grafton and Upton Railroad | North Grafton
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Milford | Upton Loop, West Upton to Upton |
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Hampden Railroad | Springfield | Bondsville | never opened, built by the Boston and Maine Railroad and New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad | |
Lancaster Railroad | Lancaster | Hudson | never opened, built by the Boston and Maine Railroad | |
Martha's Vineyard Railroad | Oak Bluffs | South Beach | ||
Nantucket Railroad
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Nantucket
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Siasconset | ||
Southern New England Railway | Palmer | Rhode Island state line in Blackstone | never finished, built by the Grand Trunk Railway | |
Union Freight Railroad | connecting lines in downtown Boston |