The Milton Branch at Central Avenue station in 1928
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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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The DorchesterandMiltonBranchRailroad was a railroad in Massachusetts. It ran between Neponset Village in Dorchester, Massachusetts, through the town...
built the Shawmut Railroad as a connection between the DorchesterandMiltonBranchand the main line to Boston. The Old Colony and Newport Railway merged...
in the Dorchester section of Boston, Massachusetts. It roughly follows the path of the eastern part of the DorchesterandMiltonBranchRailroad from the...
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...
2003. The trail follows the former right-of-way of the DorchesterandMiltonBranchRailroad, the western part of which is also used by the MBTA Ashmont–Mattapan...
following railroads operate in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Bay Colony Railroad (BCLR) Connecticut Southern Railroad (CSO) (Genesee and Wyoming) CSX...
Dorchester andMiltonBranchRailroad. He continued his involvement with railway advocating with the Old Colony Street Railway and the Metropolitan Railroad, Massachusetts...
Fairmount Line or DorchesterBranch is a line of the MBTA Commuter Rail system in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Except for a short portion in Milton, it lies entirely...
Railroad took over the Shawmut BranchRailroad, which branched off the main line at Harrison Square and ran through Dorchester to Milton. The branch line...
renamed Readville in 1847. The Boston and New York Central Railroad opened its Midland Branch (DorchesterBranch) through Readville in 1855, crossing over...
in September 1930 as an infill station on the line. The DorchesterandMiltonBranchRailroad opened from Neponset to Mattapan in December 1847. Service...
United States. Historically and for legal processes a section of Dorchester, Mattapan became a part of Boston when Dorchester was annexed in 1870. Mattapan...
2017, and the station opened on February 25, 2019. Service on the Fairmount Line (as the DorchesterBranch of the Norfolk County Railroadand later the...
both platforms. The Shawmut BranchRailroad, owned by the Old Colony Railroad opened between Harrison Square andMilton Lower Mills on December 4, 1872...
Colony Railroad opened from Plymouth to South Boston in November 1845. Savin Hill was a flag stop for South Braintree andDorchesterandMiltonBranch trains...
historic Old Colony Railroad (OCRR) stations, at the time of the 1893 lease by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroadand shortly after. City/town...
the line further along a former New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroadbranch through Dorchester, with the Ashmont–Mattapan High Speed Line continuing...