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Dorchester and Milton Branch Railroad information


Dorchester and Milton Branch Railroad
The Milton Branch at Central Avenue station in 1928
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Other name(s)Milton Branch
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The Dorchester and Milton Branch Railroad was a railroad in Massachusetts. It ran between Neponset Village in Dorchester, Massachusetts, through the town of Milton to the village of Mattapan. It was opened in 1847 and became part of the Old Colony Railroad system in 1848. The western portion was converted to a streetcar line in 1929, while the eastern portion remained in use for freight until the 1980s.

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Dorchester and Milton Branch Railroad

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The Dorchester and Milton Branch Railroad was a railroad in Massachusetts. It ran between Neponset Village in Dorchester, Massachusetts, through the town...

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Old Colony Railroad

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built the Shawmut Railroad as a connection between the Dorchester and Milton Branch and the main line to Boston. The Old Colony and Newport Railway merged...

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Lower Neponset River Trail

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in the Dorchester section of Boston, Massachusetts. It roughly follows the path of the eastern part of the Dorchester and Milton Branch Railroad from the...

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List of railroad lines in Massachusetts

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These railroads were owned by or closely related to the Boston and Albany Railroad, later part of the New York Central Railroad. These railroads were owned...

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Mattapan station

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mini-high platforms. The Dorchester and Milton Branch Railroad opened from Neponset to the Upper Mills section of Dorchester (later called Mattapan) on...

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Neponset River

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2003. The trail follows the former right-of-way of the Dorchester and Milton Branch Railroad, the western part of which is also used by the MBTA Ashmont–Mattapan...

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List of Massachusetts railroads

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following railroads operate in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Bay Colony Railroad (BCLR) Connecticut Southern Railroad (CSO) (Genesee and Wyoming) CSX...

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Nathan Carruth

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Dorchester and Milton Branch Railroad. He continued his involvement with railway advocating with the Old Colony Street Railway and the Metropolitan Railroad, Massachusetts...

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Fairmount Line

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Fairmount Line or Dorchester Branch is a line of the MBTA Commuter Rail system in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Except for a short portion in Milton, it lies entirely...

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Shawmut station

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Railroad took over the Shawmut Branch Railroad, which branched off the main line at Harrison Square and ran through Dorchester to Milton. The branch line...

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Readville station

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renamed Readville in 1847. The Boston and New York Central Railroad opened its Midland Branch (Dorchester Branch) through Readville in 1855, crossing over...

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Capen Street station

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in September 1930 as an infill station on the line. The Dorchester and Milton Branch Railroad opened from Neponset to Mattapan in December 1847. Service...

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Mattapan

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United States. Historically and for legal processes a section of Dorchester, Mattapan became a part of Boston when Dorchester was annexed in 1870. Mattapan...

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Blue Hill Avenue station

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2017, and the station opened on February 25, 2019. Service on the Fairmount Line (as the Dorchester Branch of the Norfolk County Railroad and later the...

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Cedar Grove station

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both platforms. The Shawmut Branch Railroad, owned by the Old Colony Railroad opened between Harrison Square and Milton Lower Mills on December 4, 1872...

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Savin Hill station

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Colony Railroad opened from Plymouth to South Boston in November 1845. Savin Hill was a flag stop for South Braintree and Dorchester and Milton Branch trains...

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List of Old Colony Railroad stations

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historic Old Colony Railroad (OCRR) stations, at the time of the 1893 lease by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and shortly after. City/town...

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History of the MBTA

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the line further along a former New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad branch through Dorchester, with the Ashmont–Mattapan High Speed Line continuing...

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