Between 19, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts bought almost all track assets in Southeastern Massachusetts, including the Franklin Branch, from the Penn Central's bankruptcy trustees.
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The easternmost bridge over the Blackstone River was washed out in the March 17-19th flooding of the river in 1968 the line beyond Franklin was abandoned 3 years later, and is now preserved in full as the Southern New England Trunkline Trail. Service to Blackstone was discontinued in April 1966 when the MBTA began subsidizing the line Franklin and beyond were not in the MBTA district, meaning that the towns themselves had to subsidize service, and only Franklin agreed to do so. The bridge was never repaired, and the line was abandoned between Willimantic and Putnam in 1959. It was shortened to Blackstone when the two southern spans of the bridge crossing the Quinebaug River in Putnam, Connecticut washed out during Hurricane Diane in 1955. However, in the 1940s and early 1950s service, including the New Haven's Nutmeg and several unnamed trains from Boston to Hartford and Waterbury continued. Service was eventually shortened to Waterbury in 1937. In 1910, the passenger route on the Midland Line was a regional inter-city train that continued to New York via the Highland Line segment of the Highland Division between Willimantic and Waterbury, Connecticut, then continuing down the Housatonic Railroad to the New Haven Line. What is today's Franklin Branch was a portion of the Midland Line of the New Haven's Midland Division, the New Haven's secondary route between Boston and New York the MBTA's Dorchester Branch and the abandoned segments from Franklin to Willimantic, Connecticut via Blackstone were the remaining components of the Midland Line. After various mergers and acquisitions, the line become part of the New York and New England Railroad until 1898, the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad until 1968, and, ultimately, Penn Central until its 1970 bankruptcy. This was followed, in 1848, by the Norfolk County Railroad, which ran from Dedham to Walpole. The earliest predecessor to the Franklin Line began in 1835 when the Boston and Providence Railroad built a branch from Dedham to Readville, connecting with the main line from Boston to Providence. History Union Station in Walpole The line was extended to Forge Park/495 station in 1988 Pilot weekday service to Foxboro ran from October 2019 to November 2020 it resumed in May 2022 and was made permanent in October 2023.
Previously, trains only served the station during special events at Gillette Stadium. Most weekday trains, and all weekend trains, bypass Hyde Park.įoxboro station is located on the Framingham Secondary branch line, which connects with the Franklin Line at Walpole. Most trains use the Northeast Corridor before splitting off onto the namesake Franklin Branch at Readville, though some trains will use the Dorchester Branch ( Fairmount Line) to reach Readville. It runs from Boston's South Station in a southwesterly direction toward Franklin, Massachusetts. The Franklin/Foxboro Line is part of the MBTA Commuter Rail system.
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