MEDWAY
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Medway station, c. 1907 – c. 1915
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Location | Medway, Massachusetts | ||||||||||
Owned by | New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, later Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority | ||||||||||
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Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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Opened | November 18, 1861, March 1940 | ||||||||||
Closed | July 18, 1938, April 24, 1966 | ||||||||||
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Medway is a former station on the West Medway Branch (later the Millis Branch), opened in 1861.
Medway station was originally part of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, until the line was cut back to Needham Junction in July 1938. Service to Medway was restored in 1940 when the line was extended to Bellingham Junction, which was shortly thereafter cut back to Caryville. By 1955, ridership on the line was remarkably poor, and only a single round trip per day served the station.
Only two years after the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority was formed, service to the station was no longer available. The Town of Medway decided to not continue funding the train and the line was subsequently cut back to Millis. Just under a year later, service on the entire line past Needham Junction was discontinued, and has not returned since.
Both the tracks and the station building are long destroyed, and the only indication of former railroad service in the town is a dirt path where the railroad formerly ran.