Millis station
MILLIS | |||||||||||||
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![]() Millis station in 2009 | |||||||||||||
General information | |||||||||||||
Location | Millis, Massachusetts | ||||||||||||
Coordinates | 42°10′3″N 71°21′36″W / 42.16750°N 71.36000°W | ||||||||||||
Owned by | New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad | ||||||||||||
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Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||
Opened | 1886[1] | ||||||||||||
Closed | April 21, 1967[2] | ||||||||||||
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Millis was a railroad station in Millis, Massachusetts. It served the Millis Branch (formerly the West Medway Branch), and opened in 1886.
History
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In April 1966, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) reached an agreement with the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, the owner of the West Medway Branch, to subsidise continued service on the branch (as well as on the Needham, Dedham, and Franklin lines, also owned by the NYNH&H) within its funding district, starting on 24 April; as Medway, outside the district, declined to pay for continued service to Medway and West Medway stations (the latter of which was, at the time, the western terminus of the branch), the branch was cut back to Millis, which became the new terminus, and became known as the Millis Branch instead of the West Medway Branch.
Slightly under a year later, on 21 April 1967, the Millis and Dedham branches were both abandoned due to continued poor ridership.[2][3] Millis station is still extant, one of only two stations on the Millis Branch (the other being Dover) to have survived; it is now known as the Lansing Millis Memorial Railroad Station, part of the Millis Center Historic District.[1]
References
- ^ a b Millis Historical Commission. "Lansing Millis Memorial Railroad Station". Retrieved 9 July 2015.
- ^ a b Belcher, Jonathan (22 March 2014). "Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district" (PDF). NETransit. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
- ^ Humphrey, Thomas J.; Clark, Norton D. (1985). Boston's Commuter Rail: The First 150 Years. Boston Street Railway Association. pp. 43–46. ISBN 9780685412947.
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External links
Media related to Millis (MBTA station) at Wikimedia Commons
- MBTA Commuter Rail stations in Norfolk County, Massachusetts
- Defunct railway stations in Massachusetts
- Millis, Massachusetts
- Railway stations opened in 1886
- Railway stations closed in 1967
- 1886 establishments in Massachusetts
- 1967 disestablishments in Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority stubs
- Massachusetts railway station stubs