Mass Central Rail-Trail

CENTRAL MASS BRANCH
Overview
Type	Commuter Rail
System	MBTA Commuter Rail
Status	Abandoned
Locale	East-Central Massachusetts
Termini	Hudson, Massachusetts North Station, Boston, Massachusetts
Stations	14
Operation
Opened	1964
Closed	November 26, 1971
Owner	Boston and Maine Railroad
Operator(s)	MBTA
Character	Surface
Rolling stock	Budd RDCs
Technical
Line length	28 miles
Track gauge	Standard (1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in))
Route map former route to Northampton Hudson Gleasondale Ordway South Sudbury East Sudbury Wayland Tower Hill Cherry Brook Weston Fitchburg Line Waltham Highlands Waltham North to Somerville Junction Fitchburg Line Clematis Brook Fitchburg Line only Fitchburg Cutoff Lexington Branch Cambridge Grand Junction Railroad Boston Engine Terminal (MBTA employees only) Lowell, Haverhill, and Newburyport/Rockport Lines Charles River Bridge North Station This diagram:

The Central Massachusetts Railroad was a railroad in Massachusetts. The eastern terminus of the line was at North Cambridge Junction where it split off from the Middlesex Central Branch of the Boston and Lowell Railroad in North Cambridge and through which it had access to North Station in Boston. From there, the route ran 98.77 miles west through the modern-day towns of Belmont, Waltham, Weston, Wayland, Sudbury, Hudson, Bolton, Berlin, Clinton, West Boylston, Holden, Rutland, Oakham, Barre, New Braintree, Hardwick, Ware, Palmer, Belchertown, Amherst, and Hadley to its western terminal junction at N. O. Tower in Northampton with the Connecticut River Railroad.