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Massachusetts Central Railroad (defunct)

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 12 in))
Route map

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.


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