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    by the Boston and Worcester Street Railway, was an interurban streetcar line partly on the old Boston and Worcester Turnpike (now Route 9) and partly...
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  • as Boston and Worcester, running between the towns of Boston and Worcester, Massachusetts: Boston and Worcester Railroad Boston and Worcester Street Railway...
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    "United Spanish War Veterans Highway". From 1903 to 1932, the Boston and Worcester Street Railway ran mostly via modern Route 9. Today the E branch of the...
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    share of the freight to and from the Midwestern United States. The Boston and Worcester Railroad was chartered June 23, 1831 and construction began in August...
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    The Worcester Consolidated Street Railway (WCSR) was a streetcar and later bus system in Worcester, Massachusetts, and surrounding areas of Central Massachusetts...
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    and the Mattapan Line, with only one (the Green Line E branch) running regular service on an undivided street. The first streetcar line in the Boston...
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    only a handful of times in 1899, and some equipment was sold off that year. The Boston and Worcester Street Railway (B&W), an interurban line between...
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    Union Station is a railway station located at Washington Square in downtown Worcester, Massachusetts. It is the western terminus of the MBTA Commuter Rail...
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    Hartford Line (CNDX) Street and other electric railways Berkshire Street Railway Boston Elevated Railway Boston and Worcester Street Railway Cambridge Railroad...
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    Massachusetts Street Railway (Eastern Mass) was a streetcar and later bus company in eastern Massachusetts, serving northern and southern suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts...
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    BostonWorcester–Providence combined statistical area. This area consists of the following counties in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New...
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    Brookline Avenue–Huntington Avenue shuttle. On May 5, 1903, the Boston and Worcester Street Railway (B&W) began operations. It initially terminated at Chestnut...
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  • reorganized in 1881 and then operated in conjunction with the line to Worcester. On April 1, 1887, the B&M leased the Boston and Lowell Railroad, adding...
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    The Framingham/Worcester Line of the MBTA Commuter Rail system runs west from Boston, Massachusetts, to Worcester, Massachusetts, through the MetroWest...
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    the Boston and Maine Railroad (B&M) or the Norfolk and Western Railway (though the latter company did not connect to the Providence and Worcester, at...
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    Newton Highlands branch, was a suburban railway line in Boston, Massachusetts. It was opened by the Boston and Albany Railroad in 1886 to serve the growing...
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    Providence and Boston Railroad (opened 1837). The former mainline became the primarily-freight East Junction Branch. In 1847, the Providence and Worcester Railroad...
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    Interurban streetcars in Southern New England (category Interurban railways in Connecticut)
    large network of street railway lines, including several true interurban streetcars. It was possible to go from New York City to Boston completely on streetcars...
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    The old Boston and Worcester Street Railway depot, on the east side of the center, was converted into a strip mall in the early 1980s and houses the...
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    The Boston and Worcester Railroad opened from downtown Boston to Newton in 1834, and to Worcester within the next several years. The Boston and Providence...
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    the company. Connecting to either the Boston and Worcester Railroad in Worcester, Massachusetts, or the Boston and Providence Railroad in Providence, Rhode...
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    Chestnut Hill on November 19.: 201  On May 5, 1903, the Boston and Worcester Street Railway (B&W) began operations. It initially terminated at Chestnut...
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    after Worcester, England, the city had 206,518 people at the 2020 census, also making it the second-most populous city in New England, after Boston. Worcester...
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    Boston Landing station is an MBTA Commuter Rail station in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is served by the Framingham/Worcester Line. It is...
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  • was the former Boston and Lowell Railroad. The Western Division was the original Boston and Maine Railroad. The Worcester, Nashua and Portland Division...
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    Street at Worcester Square in the South End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts near the Boston Medical Center. The stop is served by the SL4 and SL5...
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    yard in Worcester and a new transload facility in Westborough. The other significant freight railroad in the Boston area is Pan Am Railways (PAR; formerly...
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  • moving between the north and south sides of Boston had to be routed via Pan Am Railways trackage between Ayer and Worcester, a lengthy detour. The bridge...
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    to Boston. That same year, the branch to Southbridge (part of the original Southbridge and Blackstone charter) opened. The Norwich and Worcester Railroad...
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    (1985). Boston's Commuter Rail: The First 150 Years. Boston Street Railway Association. pp. 87–90. ISBN 9780685412947. "Hearings". Boston Globe. September...
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