East Sudbury station was a train station in Sudbury, Massachusetts. It was located on the Central Massachusetts Railroad mainline east of the Landham Road overpass.
East Sudbury | |||||||||||||||||||||
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 The former station site in November 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Sudbury, Massachusetts | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 42°21′38″N 71°24′06″W / 42.360453°N 71.401746°W | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | MBTA | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Central Massachusetts Railroad mainline | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 (former) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 (former) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | Before December 19, 1887 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Closed | November 26, 1971 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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History
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East Sudbury station was created by the Boston and Maine Railroad (B&M) before December 19, 1887 on the Central Massachusetts Branch. It was unstaffed by 1913 and became a flag stop.[1]: 73 B&M service was subsidized by the MBTA and added to the MBTA Commuter Rail system in 1965.[2]: 369–371
The station was a simple wooden open-air shelter for passengers with a small parking lot.[3][1]: 143
Service on the Central Mass Branch was terminated on November 26, 1971 due to poor track conditions and low ridership.[2]: 369–371, 373 [1]: 143 The shelter has since been demolished.
In 2022, a buried transmission line project between Sudbury and Hudson began construction under the former Central Massachusetts Railroad ROW for which it provided service.[4] This project subsidized the cost of building a section of the Mass Central Rail Trail—Wayside, which is expected to complete construction in 2025.[5] As part of this project, DCR will install granite markers to commemorate the archaeological site.[6]: 6
References
edit- ^ a b c The Boston & Maine Railroad Historical Society, Inc. (2008). The Central Mass (Second ed.). Brimfield, MA: Marker Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-9662736-3-2.
- ^ a b Belcher, Jonathan. "Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district" (PDF). Boston Street Railway Association.
- ^ "'Railroads through Sudbury' program". Wicked Local. 2014-02-23. Retrieved 2024-10-21.
- ^ "Sudbury-Hudson—Eversource". E.T. & L. Corp. Retrieved 2023-09-20.
- ^ Autler, Gerald. "Mass Central Rail Trail—Wayside". Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation. Retrieved 2024-09-09.
- ^ "Memorandum of Agreement Between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Massachusetts Historical Commission, NSTAR d/b/a Eversource Energy and the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation Regarding the Sudbury-Hudson Transmission Reliability and Mass Central Rail Trail Project, Hudson, Stow, Marlborough, and Sudbury, Massachusetts" (PDF). Town of Sudbury, Massachusetts. 2022-10-19. Retrieved 2024-10-21.
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