Millbury Junction – Millbury Railway
| Millbury Junction MA-Millbury MA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route length: | 5.1 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dual track : | - | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Society: | most recently Penn Central | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Millbury Junction – Millbury (also Millbury Branch ) is a single-track, disused railway line in Massachusetts ( United States ). It is five kilometers long and tied the city of Millbury to the Boston – Worcester railway . It runs its full length in the city of Millbury.
history
The Boston and Worcester Railroad opened the branch line from their main line to Millbury in 1837 or 1846. In 1867 the Boston & Worcester merged with other companies to form the Boston and Albany Railroad , which also took over the branch line to Millbury and operated from then on. With the takeover of Boston & Albany in 1900 by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad (later New York Central Railroad) initially only the owner changed, the management remained with Boston & Albany.
Passenger traffic was discontinued in 1941 at the latest and in 1968 the merger of Boston & Albany into the Penn Central system took place. In 1976, the new owner stopped the traffic on the route, which last consisted of a weekly freight train, and shut it down. The tracks were dismantled in 1980.
Route description
The line branches off at the former Millbury Junction station from the main Boston – Worcester line and heads south. There was a charging station at Grafton Road. Shortly thereafter, the route passes under Interstate 90 and leads in a south-southwest direction towards the center of Millbury. On a dam that still exists today, the train crossed a bay in Dorothy Pond and ended in front of Canal Street in Millbury town center. Some industries had settled along the route over the decades.
passenger traffic
In 1893, nine weekdays train pairs ran on the route, which had connections in Millbury Junction in the direction of Boston and partly Worcester. In 1932 the timetable offered a train that ran Monday through Friday afternoon from Millbury Junction to Millbury and Monday through Saturday morning in the opposite direction, with direct connections to and from Boston. From 1934 at the latest, no more passenger traffic on the route was shown in the timetables. According to other sources, however, passenger trains continued to run until 1941.
Sources and further reading
- Individual evidence
- ^ Karr, pages 278 and 283.
- ^ Poor's Manual of the Railroads 1860, sv Boston & Worcester Railroad.
- ↑ see timetables of the route from the years mentioned.
- ^ Karr, p. 278.
- literature
- Ronald D. Karr: The Rail Lines of Southern New England. A Handbook of Railroad History. Branch Line Press, Pepperell, MA 1995. ISBN 0-942147-02-2
- Mike Walker: Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America. New England & Maritime Canada. (2nd edition) SPV-Verlag, Dunkirk (GB), 2010. ISBN 1-874745-12-9