Millis (MBTA station)

MILLIS

Millis station in 2009
Location Millis, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°10′3″N 71°21′36″W / 42.16750°N 71.36000°W / 42.16750; -71.36000Coordinates: 42°10′3″N 71°21′36″W / 42.16750°N 71.36000°W / 42.16750; -71.36000
Owned by New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
Line(s)
  Millis Branch
Platforms 1 side platform
Tracks 2
History
Opened 1886[1]
Closed April 21, 1967[2]
Services
Preceding station   MBTA   Following station
TerminusMillis Branch
Clicquot

Millis is a former station on the Millis Branch (formerly the West Medway Branch), opened in 1886.

History

Millis station in 1899

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

  1. 1 2 Millis Historical Commission. "Lansing Millis Memorial Railroad Station". Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  2. 1 2 Belcher, Jonathan (22 March 2014). "Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district" (PDF). NETransit. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  3. ↑ Humphrey, Thomas J. and Clark, Norton D. (1985). Boston's Commuter Rail: The First 150 Years. Boston Street Railway Association. pp. 43–46. ISBN 9780685412947.

External links

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