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