- List of Massachusetts railroads
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Contents
The following railroads operate in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.
Common freight carriers
- Bay Colony Railroad (BCLR)
- Connecticut Southern Railroad (CSO)
- CSX Transportation (CSXT)
- East Brookfield and Spencer Railroad (EBSR)
- Fore River Transportation Corporation (FRVT)
- Grafton and Upton Railroad (GU)
- Housatonic Railroad (HRRC)
- Massachusetts Central Railroad (MCER)
- Massachusetts Coastal Railroad (MC)
- New England Central Railroad (NECR)
- Pan Am Railways (ST)
- Pan Am Southern (PAS)
- Pioneer Valley Railroad (PVRR)
- Providence and Worcester Railroad (PW)
Passenger carriers
- Amtrak (AMTK)
- Berkshire Scenic Railway
- Cape Cod Central Railroad
- Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
Defunct railroads
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Name Mark System[nb 1] From To Successor Notes Agricultural Branch Railroad NH 1847 1867 Boston, Clinton and Fitchburg Railroad Albany Street Freight Railway 1868 N/A Amherst and Belchertown Railroad CN 1851 1858 Amherst, Belchertown and Palmer Railroad Amherst, Belchertown and Palmer Railroad CN 1858 1861 New London Northern Railroad Andover and Haverhill Railroad B&M 1837 1839 Boston and Portland Railroad Andover and Wilmington Railroad B&M 1833 1837 Andover and Haverhill Railroad Asbury Grove Railroad B&M 1870 1870 Eastern Railroad Ashburnham Railroad B&M 1871 1885 Fitchburg Railroad Athol and Enfield Railroad NYC 1869 1873 Springfield, Athol and North-eastern Railroad Barre and Worcester Railroad B&M 1847 1849 Boston, Barre and Gardner Railroad Bellingham Branch Railroad NH 1852 1853 New York and Boston Railroad Berkshire Railroad NH 1837 1910 New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Billerica and Bedford Railroad B&M 1876 1878 Boston and Lowell Railroad Boston and Albany Railroad B&A NYC 1867 1961 New York Central Railroad Boston, Barre and Gardner Railroad B&M 1849 1885 Fitchburg Railroad Boston, Clinton and Fitchburg Railroad NH 1867 1876 Boston, Clinton, Fitchburg and New Bedford Railroad Boston, Clinton, Fitchburg and New Bedford Railroad NH 1873 1883 Old Colony Railroad Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad NH 1863 1874 New York and New England Railroad Boston, Hingham and Hull Railroad NH 1880 1881 Nantasket Beach Railroad Boston and Lowell Railroad B&M 1830 1919 Boston and Maine Railroad Boston and Maine Corporation BM B&M 1963 Still exists as a lessor of Pan Am Railways operating subsidiary Springfield Terminal Railway Boston and Maine Railroad B&M, BM B&M 1841 1964 Boston and Maine Corporation Boston and Maine Railroad Extension Company B&M 1844 1845 Boston and Maine Railroad Boston and New York Central Railroad NH 1853 1858 Midland Railroad Boston and Portland Railroad B&M 1839 1841 Boston and Maine Railroad Boston and Providence Railroad NH 1831 1972 Penn Central Transportation Company Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad 1874 1940 N/A Boston Terminal Company BTCO NH 1896 1965 N/A Boston and Winthrop Railroad 1881 1883 Boston, Winthrop and Shore Railroad Boston, Winthrop and Point Shirley Railroad 1876 1883 Boston, Winthrop and Shore Railroad Boston, Winthrop and Shore Railroad 1883 1891 Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad Boston and Worcester Railroad NYC 1831 1867 Boston and Albany Railroad Brookline and Pepperell Railroad B&M 1891 1895 Fitchburg Railroad Cape Ann Granite Railroad 1894 Cape Cod Railroad NH 1854 1872 Old Colony Railroad Cape Cod Branch Railroad NH 1846 1854 Cape Cod Railroad Cape Cod Central Railroad NH 1861 1868 Cape Cod Railroad Central Massachusetts Railroad B&M 1883 1901 Boston and Maine Railroad Central New England Railway CNE NH 1899 1938 N/A Central Vermont Railroad CN 1873 1899 Central Vermont Railway Central Vermont Railway CV CN 1899 1995 New England Central Railroad Charles River Railroad NH 1851 1855 New York and Boston Railroad Charles River Branch Railroad NH 1849 1853 Charles River Railroad Charlestown Branch Railroad B&M 1836 1846 Fitchburg Railroad Chatham Railroad NH 1887 1937 N/A Chelsea Beach Railroad B&M 1881 1892 Boston and Maine Railroad Chelsea Branch Railroad NYC 1846 1847 Grand Junction Railroad and Depot Company Cheshire Railroad B&M 1846 1890 Fitchburg Railroad Chester and Becket Railroad NYC 1896 1931 N/A Commercial Freight Railway NH 1866 1867 Marginal Freight Railway Concord Railroad B&M 1856 1890 Concord and Montreal Railroad Concord and Montreal Railroad B&M 1890 1895 Boston and Maine Corporation Connecticut Central Railroad NH 1876 1887 New York and New England Railroad Connecticut River Railroad B&M 1845 1919 Boston and Maine Railroad Connecticut Valley Railroad NH 1876 1876 Connecticut Central Railroad Consolidated Rail Corporation CR 1976 1999 CSX Transportation Danvers Railroad B&M 1852 1906 Boston and Maine Railroad Danvers and Georgetown Railroad B&M 1851 1855 Newburyport Railroad Deerfield River Company 1883 1888 Hoosac Tunnel and Wilmington Railroad Dighton and Somerset Railroad NH 1863 1865 Old Colony and Newport Railway Dorchester and Milton Branch Railroad NH 1846 1885 Old Colony Railroad Duxbury and Cohasset Railroad NH 1867 1878 Old Colony Railroad East Boston Freight Railroad NYC 1862 1869 Boston and Albany Railroad Eastern Railroad B&M 1836 1890 Boston and Maine Railroad Eastern Junction, Broad Sound Pier and Point Shirley Railroad 1880 1883 Boston, Winthrop and Shore Railroad Easton Branch Railroad NH 1854 1871 Old Colony and Newport Railway Essex Railroad B&M 1846 1864 Eastern Railroad Essex Branch Railroad B&M 1869 1872 Eastern Railroad Fairhaven Branch Railroad NH 1849 1861 New Bedford and Taunton Railroad Fall River Railroad (1846) NH 1846 1854 Old Colony and Fall River Railroad Fall River Railroad (1874) NH 1874 1896 Old Colony Railroad Fall River Branch Railroad NH 1844 1845 Fall River Railroad (1846) Fall River and Warren Railroad NH 1857 1862 Fall River, Warren and Providence Railroad Fall River, Warren and Providence Railroad NH 1862 1892 Old Colony Railroad Fitchburg Railroad B&M 1842 1919 Boston and Maine Railroad Fitchburg and Worcester Railroad NH 1846 1869 Boston, Clinton and Fitchburg Railroad Fore River Railroad FOR 1919 Still exists as a lessor of the Fore River Transportation Corporation Fore River Railway FRY 1986 1992 Quincy Bay Terminal Company Foxborough Branch Railroad NH 1862 1867 Mansfield and Framingham Railroad Framingham and Lowell Railroad NH 1870 1881 Lowell and Framingham Railroad Georgetown Branch Railroad B&M 1844 1846 Newburyport Railroad Grafton Centre Railroad 1873 1888 Grafton and Upton Railroad Grand Junction Railroad and Depot Company NYC 1847 1862 East Boston Freight Railroad Granite Railway NH 1826 1870 Old Colony and Newport Railway Greenfield and Fitchburg Railroad B&M 1848 1848 Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad Greenfield and Northampton Railroad B&M 1845 1845 Connecticut River Railroad Hampden Railroad NH 1852 1853 Hampshire and Hampden Railroad Hampshire and Hampden Railroad NH 1853 1862 New Haven and Northampton Company Hanover Branch Railroad NH 1846 1887 Old Colony Railroad Hartford and Connecticut Western Railroad NH 1889 1938 N/A Hartford and New Haven Railroad NH 1847 1872 New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Hartford and Springfield Railroad NH 1839 1847 Hartford and New Haven Railroad Harvard Branch Railroad 1848 1855 N/A Holyoke and Westfield Railroad NH 1869 1976 Consolidated Rail Corporation Hoosac Tunnel and Wilmington Railroad HTW 1886 1971 N/A Hopkinton Railroad NH 1870 1884 Milford and Woonsocket Railroad Hopkinton Branch Railroad NH 1869 1870 Hopkinton Railroad Hopkinton and Milford Railroad NH 1867 1870 Hopkinton Railroad Horn Pond Branch Railroad B&M 1852 Hull and Nantasket Beach Railroad NH 1880 1881 Nantasket Beach Railroad Lancaster and Sterling Branch Railroad B&M 1846 1846 Fitchburg Railroad Lexington and Arlington Railroad B&M 1867 1870 Boston and Lowell Railroad Lexington and West Cambridge Railroad B&M 1845 1867 Lexington and Arlington Railroad Lowell and Andover Railroad B&M 1873 1919 Boston and Maine Railroad Lowell and Andover Railroad B&M 1846 1848 Lowell and Lawrence Railroad Lowell and Framingham Railroad NH 1881 1886 Old Colony Railroad Lowell and Lawrence Railroad B&M 1848 1879 Boston and Lowell Railroad Manchester and Lawrence Railroad B&M 1846 1856 Concord Railroad Mansfield and Framingham Railroad NH 1867 1875 Boston, Clinton and Fitchburg Railroad Marblehead and Lynn Railroad B&M 1865 1872 Eastern Railroad Marginal Freight Railway NH 1867 1872 Union Freight Railroad Marlborough Branch Railroad B&M 1852 1860 Marlborough and Feltonville Branch Railroad Marlborough and Feltonville Branch Railroad B&M 1858 1862 Fitchburg Railroad 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) Middleborough and Taunton Railroad NH 1853 1874 Old Colony Railroad Middlesex Central Railroad B&M 1871 1883 Boston and Lowell Railroad Midland Railroad NH 1858 1862 Midland Land Damage Company Midland Railroad NH 1850 1853 Boston and New York Central Railroad Midland Land Damage Company NH 1861 1863 Southern Midland Railroad Milford, Franklin and Providence Railroad NH 1882 1910 New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Milford and Woonsocket Railroad NH 1855 1910 New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Monadnock Railroad B&M 1869 1892 Fitchburg Railroad Mount Tom and Easthampton Railroad B&M 1871 1872 Connecticut River Railroad Mystic River Railroad B&M 1853 1871 Boston and Lowell Railroad Nantasket Beach Railroad NH 1880 1906 Old Colony Railroad Nantucket Railroad 1910 1917 N/A Nantucket Railroad 1880 1894 Nantucket Central Railroad Nantucket Central Railroad 1895 1910 Nantucket Railroad Nashua and Acton Railroad B&M 1907 1925 N/A Nashua, Acton and Boston Railroad B&M 1871 1906 Nashua and Acton Railroad Nashua and Lowell Railroad B&M 1836 1944 Boston and Maine Railroad New Bedford Railroad NH 1873 1876 Boston, Clinton, Fitchburg and New Bedford Railroad New Bedford and Taunton Railroad NH 1839 1873 New Bedford Railroad New England Railroad NH 1895 1908 New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad New Haven and Northampton Company NH 1862 1910 New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad New London Northern Railroad CN 1860 1951 Central Vermont Railway New London, Willimantic and Palmer Railroad CN 1848 1861 New London Northern Railroad New York and Boston Railroad NH 1853 1865 Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad New York Central Railroad NYC NYC 1914 1968 Penn Central Transportation Company New York Central and Hudson River Railroad NYC 1900 1914 New York Central Railroad New York and Harlem Railroad NYC 1831 1976 N/A Was located in present-day New York; the boundary was moved in 1855 New York and New England Railroad NH 1873 1895 New England Railroad New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad NH NH 1872 1969 Penn Central Transportation Company Newburyport Railroad B&M 1846 1906 Boston and Maine Railroad Newburyport City Railroad B&M 1869 1893 Boston and Maine Railroad Newport and Fall River Railroad NH 1846 1863 Old Colony and Newport Railway Norfolk County Railroad NH 1847 1853 Boston and New York Central Railroad North Brookfield Railroad NYC 1875 1976 Consolidated Rail Corporation Northampton and Springfield Railroad B&M 1842 1845 Connecticut River Railroad Northampton and Westfield Railroad NH 1852 1853 Hampshire and Hampden Railroad Norwich and Worcester Railroad NH 1836 1976 Consolidated Rail Corporation Ocean Terminal Railroad B&M 1879 1887 Boston and Lowell Railroad Old Colony Railroad NH 1872 1947 New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Old Colony Railroad NH 1844 1854 Old Colony and Fall River Railroad Old Colony Railroad NH 1838 1839 New Bedford and Taunton Railroad Old Colony and Fall River Railroad NH 1854 1863 Old Colony and Newport Railway Old Colony and Newport Railway NH 1863 1872 Old Colony Railroad Penn Central Transportation Company PC 1968 1976 Consolidated Rail Corporation Peterborough and Shirley Railroad B&M 1845 1860 Fitchburg Railroad Pittsfield and North Adams Railroad NYC 1842 1961 New York Central Railroad Plymouth and Middleborough Railroad NH 1890 1911 Old Colony Railroad Plymouth and Vineyard Sound Railroad NH 1868 1871 Cape Cod Railroad Providence and Bristol Railroad NH 1851 1853 Providence, Warren and Bristol Railroad Providence, Warren and Bristol Railroad NH 1853 1862 N/A Was located in present-day Rhode Island; the boundary was moved in 1862 Providence, Webster and Springfield Railroad NYC 1882 1958 N/A Quincy Bay Terminal Company QBT 1992 2001 Fore River Transportation Corporation Randolph and Bridgewater Railroad NH 1845 1845 Fall River Railroad (1846) Rhode Island and Massachusetts Railroad NH 1876 1910 New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Rockport Railroad B&M 1860 1868 Eastern Railroad Salem and Lowell Railroad B&M 1848 1879 Boston and Lowell Railroad Salisbury Branch Railroad B&M 1844 1846 Eastern Railroad Saugus Branch Railroad B&M 1848 1853 Eastern Railroad Seekonk Branch Railroad NH 1836 1839 Boston and Providence Railroad Was located in present-day Rhode Island; the boundary was moved in 1862 Shawmut Railroad NH 1870 1871 Old Colony and Newport Railway South Reading Branch Railroad B&M 1848 1892 Boston and Maine Railroad South Shore Railroad NH 1846 1877 Old Colony Railroad Southbridge and Blackstone Railroad NH 1849 1853 Boston and New York Central Railroad Southern Midland Railroad NH 1863 1863 Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad Spencer Railroad NYC 1878 1889 Boston and Albany Railroad Springfield, Athol and North-eastern Railroad NYC 1873 1879 Springfield and North-eastern Railroad Springfield and New London Railroad NH 1875 1887 New York and New England Railroad Springfield and North-eastern Railroad NYC 1878 1880 Boston and Albany Railroad Stockbridge and Pittsfield Railroad NH 1847 1905 Berkshire Railroad Stoneham Branch Railroad B&M 1859 1870 Boston and Lowell Railroad Stony Brook Railroad B&M 1845 Stoughton Branch Railroad NH 1844 1873 Boston and Providence Railroad Taunton Branch Railroad NH 1835 1874 New Bedford Railroad Taunton and Middleborough Railroad NH 1848 1853 Middleborough and Taunton Railroad Troy and Boston Railroad B&M 1856 1887 Fitchburg Railroad Troy and Greenfield Railroad B&M 1848 1862 Fitchburg Railroad Turner's Falls Branch Railroad B&M 1866 1869 Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad Union Railroad NYC 1848 1854 Grand Junction Railroad and Depot Company Union Freight Railroad NH 1872 1969 N/A Fall River Railroad (1846) NH 1845 1846 Fall River Railroad Vermont Central Railroad CN 1871 1873 Central Vermont Railroad Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad B&M 1844 Vineyard Sound Railroad NH 1861 1868 Plymouth and Vineyard Sound Railroad Walpole Railroad NH 1846 1847 Norfolk County Railroad Waltham and Watertown Branch Railroad B&M 1849 1851 Fitchburg Railroad Ware River Railroad NYC 1867 1961 New York Central Railroad Watertown Branch Railroad B&M 1846 1846 Fitchburg Railroad Wayland and Sudbury Branch Railroad B&M 1868 1869 Massachusetts Central Railroad Weir Branch Railroad NH 1847 1848 New Bedford and Taunton Railroad West Amesbury Branch Railroad B&M 1868 1893 Boston and Maine Railroad West Stockbridge Railroad NH 1836 1905 Berkshire Railroad Western Railroad NYC 1833 1867 Boston and Albany Railroad Winchendon Railroad B&M 1845 1846 Cheshire Railroad Woburn Branch Railroad B&M 1844 1844 Boston and Lowell Railroad Woburn Branch Extension Railroad B&M 1847 1848 Boston and Lowell Railroad Worcester Branch Railroad B&M 1841 1847 Worcester and Nashua Railroad Worcester and Nashua Railroad B&M 1845 1883 Worcester, Nashua and Rochester Railroad Worcester, Nashua and Rochester Railroad B&M 1883 1911 Boston and Maine Railroad Worcester and Norwich Railroad NH 1833 1836 Norwich and Worcester Railroad Worcester and Shrewsbury Railroad 1873 - Street and other electric railways
- Boston Elevated Railway
- Boston and Worcester Street Railway
- Cambridge Railroad
- Conway Electric Street Railway
- Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway
- Grafton and Upton Railroad
- Middlesex and Boston Street Railway
- Milford and Uxbridge Street Railway
- Palmer and Monson Street Railway
- Shelburne Falls and Colrain Street Railway
- Springfield and Eastern Street Railway
- Upton Street Railway
- Private carriers
- Deerfield River Pulp and Paper Corporation
- Not completed
- Hampden Railroad
- Lancaster Railroad
- New York and Boston Rapid Transit Company
- Southern New England Railway
Notes
- ^ This is one or more of the Class I railroads that the railroad became part of, if any.
See also
- List of railroad lines in Massachusetts (a list of all corridors that have existed, not dealing with ownership changes)
- List of United States railroads
References
- Association of American Railroads (2003), Railroad Service in Massachusetts (PDF). Retrieved May 12, 2005.
- Hilton, George W. (1990). American Narrow Gauge Railroads. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-2369-9.
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