List of Massachusetts Railroads |
Railroad Name |
Start Date |
End Date |
Agricultural Branch Railroad |
1847 |
1867 |
Albany Street Freight Railway |
1868 |
Unknown |
Amherst and Belchertown Railroad |
1851 |
1858 |
Amherst, Belchertown and Palmer Railroad |
1858 |
1861 |
Andover and Haverhill Railroad |
1837 |
1839 |
Andover and Wilmington Railroad |
1833 |
1837 |
Asbury Grove Railroad |
1870 |
1870 |
Ashburnham Railroad |
1871 |
1885 |
Athol and Enfield Railroad |
1869 |
1873 |
Barre and Worcester Railroad |
1847 |
1849 |
Bellingham Branch Railroad |
1852 |
1853 |
Berkshire Railroad |
1837 |
1910 |
Billerica and Bedford Railroad |
1876 |
1878 |
Boston Terminal Company |
1896 |
1965 |
Boston and Albany Railroad |
1867 |
1961 |
Boston and Lowell Railroad |
1830 |
1919 |
Boston and Maine Railroad |
1835 |
1964 |
Boston and Maine Railroad Extension Company |
1844 |
1845 |
Boston and New York Central Railroad |
1853 |
1858 |
Boston and Portland Railroad |
1839 |
1841 |
Boston and Providence Railroad |
1831 |
1972 |
Boston and Winthrop Railroad |
1881 |
1883 |
Boston and Worcester Railroad |
1831 |
1867 |
Boston, Barre and Gardner Railroad |
1849 |
1885 |
Boston, Clinton and Fitchburg Railroad |
1867 |
1876 |
Boston, Clinton, Fitchburg and New Bedford Railroad |
1873 |
1883 |
Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad |
1863 |
1874 |
Boston, Hingham and Hull Railroad |
1880 |
1881 |
Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad |
1874 |
1940 |
Boston, Winthrop and Point Shirley Railroad |
1876 |
1883 |
Boston, Winthrop and Shore Railroad |
1883 |
1891 |
Brookline and Pepperell Railroad |
1891 |
1895 |
Cape Ann Granite Railroad |
1894 |
Unknown |
Cape Cod Branch Railroad |
1846 |
1854 |
Cape Cod Central Railroad |
1861 |
1868 |
Cape Cod Railroad |
1854 |
1872 |
Central Massachusetts Railroad |
1883 |
1901 |
Central New England Railway |
1899 |
1938 |
Central Vermont Railroad |
1872 |
1899 |
Central Vermont Railway |
1898 |
1995 |
Charles River Branch Railroad |
1849 |
1853 |
Charles River Railroad |
1851 |
1855 |
Charlestown Branch Railroad |
1836 |
1846 |
Chatham Railroad |
1861 |
1937 |
Chelsea Beach Railroad |
1881 |
1892 |
Chelsea Branch Railroad |
1846 |
1896 |
Cheshire Railroad |
1844 |
1890 |
Chester and Becket Railroad |
1896 |
1931 |
Commercial Freight Railway |
1866 |
1867 |
Concord Railroad |
1835 |
1890 |
Concord and Montreal Railroad |
1890 |
1919 |
Connecticut Central Railroad |
1871 |
1887 |
Connecticut River Railroad |
1845 |
1919 |
Connecticut Valley Railroad |
1868 |
1880 |
Danvers Railroad |
1852 |
1906 |
Danvers and Georgetown Railroad |
1851 |
1855 |
Deerfield River Company |
1883 |
1891 |
Dighton and Somerset Railroad |
1863 |
1865 |
Dorchester and Milton Branch Railroad |
1846 |
1885 |
Duxbury and Cohasset Railroad |
1867 |
1878 |
East Boston Freight Railroad |
1862 |
1869 |
Eastern Junction, Broad Sound Pier and Point Shirley Railroad |
1880 |
1883 |
Eastern Railroad |
1836 |
1925 |
Easton Branch Railroad |
1854 |
1871 |
Essex Branch Railroad |
1869 |
1872 |
Essex Railroad |
1846 |
1864 |
Fairhaven Branch Railroad |
1849 |
1861 |
Fall River Branch Railroad |
1844 |
1845 |
Fall River Railroad (1846) |
1845 |
1854 |
Fall River Railroad (1874) |
1874 |
1896 |
Fall River and Warren Railroad |
1857 |
1862 |
Fall River, Warren and Providence Railroad |
1862 |
1892 |
Fitchburg Railroad |
1842 |
1919 |
Fitchburg and Worcester Railroad |
1846 |
1869 |
Fore River Railroad |
1919 |
Unknown |
Foxborough Branch Railroad |
1862 |
1867 |
Framingham and Lowell Railroad |
1870 |
1881 |
Georgetown Branch Railroad |
1844 |
1846 |
Grafton Centre Railroad |
1873 |
1888 |
Grand Junction Railroad and Depot Company |
1847 |
1862 |
Granite Railway |
1826 |
1870 |
Greenfield and Fitchburg Railroad |
1848 |
1848 |
Greenfield and Northampton Railroad |
1845 |
1845 |
Hampden Railroad |
1852 |
1853 |
Hampshire and Hampden Railroad |
1853 |
1862 |
Hanover Branch Railroad |
1846 |
1887 |
Hartford and Connecticut Western Railroad |
1881 |
1947 |
Hartford and New Haven Railroad |
1833 |
1872 |
Hartford and Springfield Railroad |
1835 |
1847 |
Harvard Branch Railroad |
1848 |
1855 |
Holyoke and Westfield Railroad |
1869 |
1976 |
Hoosac Tunnel and Wilmington Railroad |
1886 |
1971 |
Hopkinton Branch Railroad |
1869 |
1870 |
Hopkinton Railroad |
1870 |
1884 |
Hopkinton and Milford Railroad |
1867 |
1870 |
Horn Pond Branch Railroad |
1852 |
Unknown |
Hull and Nantasket Beach Railroad |
1880 |
1881 |
Lancaster and Sterling Branch Railroad |
1846 |
1846 |
Lexington and Arlington Railroad |
1867 |
1870 |
Lexington and West Cambridge Railroad |
1845 |
1867 |
Lowell and Andover Railroad |
1846 |
1919 |
Lowell and Framingham Railroad |
1881 |
1886 |
Lowell and Lawrence Railroad |
1848 |
1879 |
Manchester and Lawrence Railroad |
1846 |
1919 |
Mansfield and Framingham Railroad |
1867 |
1875 |
Marblehead and Lynn Railroad |
1865 |
1872 |
Marginal Freight Railway |
1867 |
1872 |
Marlborough Branch Railroad |
1852 |
1860 |
Marlborough and Feltonville Branch Railroad |
1858 |
1862 |
Martha's Vineyard Railroad |
1874 |
1892 |
Massachusetts Central Railroad |
1869 |
1883 |
Medford Branch Railroad |
1845 |
1845 |
Medway Branch Railroad |
1849 |
1864 |
Middleborough Railroad |
1845 |
1845 |
Middleborough and Taunton Railroad |
1853 |
1874 |
Middlesex Central Railroad |
1871 |
1883 |
Midland Land Damage Company |
1861 |
1863 |
Midland Railroad |
1850 |
1936 |
Milford and Woonsocket Railroad |
1855 |
1910 |
Milford, Franklin and Providence Railroad |
1882 |
1910 |
Monadnock Railroad |
1848 |
1892 |
Mount Tom and Easthampton Railroad |
1871 |
1872 |
Mystic River Railroad |
1853 |
1871 |
Nantasket Beach Railroad |
1880 |
1906 |
Nantucket Central Railroad |
1895 |
1910 |
Nantucket Railroad |
1880 |
1917 |
Nashua and Acton Railroad |
1907 |
1925 |
Nashua and Lowell Railroad |
1835 |
1944 |
Nashua, Acton and Boston Railroad |
1871 |
1906 |
New Bedford Railroad |
1873 |
1876 |
New Bedford and Taunton Railroad |
1839 |
1873 |
New England Railroad |
1895 |
1908 |
New Haven and Northampton Company |
1846 |
1910 |
New London Northern Railroad |
1859 |
1951 |
New London, Willimantic and Palmer Railroad |
1848 |
1861 |
New York Central Railroad |
1853 |
1968 |
New York Central and Hudson River Railroad |
1869 |
1914 |
New York and Boston Railroad |
1846 |
1872 |
New York and Harlem Railroad |
1831 |
1976 |
New York and New England Railroad |
1873 |
1895 |
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad |
1872 |
1969 |
Newburyport City Railroad |
1869 |
1893 |
Newburyport Railroad |
1846 |
1906 |
Newport and Fall River Railroad |
1846 |
1863 |
Norfolk County Railroad |
1847 |
1853 |
North Brookfield Railroad |
1875 |
1976 |
Northampton and Springfield Railroad |
1842 |
1845 |
Northampton and Westfield Railroad |
1852 |
1853 |
Norwich and Worcester Railroad |
1836 |
1976 |
Ocean Terminal Railroad |
1879 |
1887 |
Old Colony Railroad |
1838 |
1947 |
Old Colony and Fall River Railroad |
1854 |
1863 |
Old Colony and Newport Railway |
1863 |
1872 |
Peterborough and Shirley Railroad |
1845 |
1860 |
Pittsfield and North Adams Railroad |
1842 |
1961 |
Plymouth and Middleborough Railroad |
1890 |
1911 |
Plymouth and Vineyard Sound Railroad |
1868 |
1871 |
Providence and Bristol Railroad |
1850 |
1853 |
Providence, Warren and Bristol Railroad |
1852 |
1947 |
Providence, Webster and Springfield Railroad |
1882 |
1958 |
Randolph and Bridgewater Railroad |
1845 |
1845 |
Rhode Island and Massachusetts Railroad |
1872 |
1910 |
Rockport Railroad |
1860 |
1896 |
Salem and Lowell Railroad |
1848 |
1879 |
Salisbury Branch Railroad |
1844 |
1846 |
Saugus Branch Railroad |
1848 |
1853 |
Seekonk Branch Railroad |
1836 |
1839 |
Shawmut Railroad |
1870 |
1871 |
South Reading Branch Railroad |
1848 |
1892 |
South Shore Railroad |
1846 |
1877 |
Southbridge and Blackstone Railroad |
1849 |
1853 |
Southern Midland Railroad |
1863 |
1863 |
Spencer Railroad |
1878 |
1889 |
Springfield and New London Railroad |
1875 |
1887 |
Springfield and North-eastern Railroad |
1878 |
1880 |
Springfield, Athol and North-eastern Railroad |
1873 |
1879 |
Stockbridge and Pittsfield Railroad |
1847 |
1905 |
Stoneham Branch Railroad |
1859 |
1870 |
Stony Brook Railroad |
1845 |
Unknown |
Stoughton Branch Railroad |
1844 |
1873 |
Taunton Branch Railroad |
1835 |
1874 |
Taunton and Middleborough Railroad |
1848 |
1853 |
Troy and Boston Railroad |
1848 |
1887 |
Troy and Greenfield Railroad |
1848 |
1862 |
Turner's Falls Branch Railroad |
1866 |
1869 |
Union Freight Railroad |
1872 |
1969 |
Union Railroad |
1848 |
1946 |
Vermont Central Railroad |
1843 |
1884 |
Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad |
1844 |
1880 |
Vineyard Sound Railroad |
1861 |
1868 |
Walpole Railroad |
1846 |
1847 |
Waltham and Watertown Branch Railroad |
1849 |
1851 |
Ware River Railroad |
1867 |
1961 |
Watertown Branch Railroad |
1846 |
1846 |
Wayland and Sudbury Branch Railroad |
1868 |
1869 |
Weir Branch Railroad |
1847 |
1848 |
West Amesbury Branch Railroad |
1868 |
1893 |
West Stockbridge Railroad |
1836 |
1905 |
Western Railroad |
1833 |
1879 |
Winchendon Railroad |
1845 |
1846 |
Woburn Branch Extension Railroad |
1847 |
1848 |
Woburn Branch Railroad |
1844 |
1844 |
Worcester Branch Railroad |
1841 |
1847 |
Worcester and Nashua Railroad |
1845 |
1883 |
Worcester and Norwich Railroad |
1833 |
1836 |
Worcester and Shrewsbury Railroad |
1873 |
Unknown |
Worcester, Nashua and Rochester Railroad |
1883 |
1911 |