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The Milford Branch is an abandoned railroad line in Massachusetts.The line formerly ran from Milford to Framingham, traveling through Holliston and Sherborn, connecting to the Boston Subdivision in Framingham and the Milford Secondary in Milford.
It ran from North Wrentham, Massachusetts (now Norfolk), where it connected with the main line of the Norfolk County Railroad, to Medway, Massachusetts. The 3.6-mile (5.8 km) Medway Branch was abandoned in 1864, following the 1861 completion of the New York and Boston Railroad's separate line through Medway.
Abandoned work along Eddy Street in Providence. The railroad, conceived by GTR president Charles Melville Hays to break the near-monopoly of the New Haven Railroad in southern New England, was chartered in April 1910, and was to be built as a completely grade-separated air line, having low grades and long high bridges over valleys.
see also Boston, Winthrop and Point Shirley Railroad and Eastern Junction, Broad Sound Pier and Point Shirley Railroad, which built lines and later abandoned them Cape Ann Granite Railroad: Pigeon Cove Harbor: Cape Ann Granite Company quarries: Grafton and Upton Railroad: North Grafton: Milford: Upton Loop, West Upton to Upton: Hampden Railroad ...
On May 22, 2013, the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) and the City of Cambridge announced their acquisition of major portions of the remaining abandoned right-of-way from the railroad for $1.3 million plus an additional, unspecified amount from Cambridge, allowing completion of the Watertown-Cambridge Greenway.
Martha's Vineyard Railroad: 1874 1892 N/A Massachusetts Central Railroad: B&M: 1869 1883 Central Massachusetts Railroad: Medford Branch Railroad: B&M: 1845 1845 Boston and Maine Railroad Extension Company: Medway Branch Railroad: NH: 1849 1864 Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad: Middleborough Railroad: NH: 1845 1845 Fall River Railroad (1846)
Memphis, Dallas and Gulf Railroad (formerly Memphis, Paris and Gulf Railroad) - under the latter name graded 2 miles of line near Little Rock 1907, [325] but then re-organised and consolidated several lumber railroads in 1910 with the intention of forming a bridge route by building from Memphis to Murfreesboro and from the Chicago, Rock Island ...
[11] [12] The Worcester and Shrewsbury was the first narrow gauge railroad to open in Massachusetts. [1]: 2 Beginning August 7, the railroad operated 20 daily round trips, with trains operating about every 45 minutes. [13] Service over the full length of the line to Lake Quinsigamond began on August 28, 1873. [14]