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Coordinates: 42°22′28″N 71°27′24″W / 42.374467°N 71.456761°W / 42.374467; -71.456761
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Wayside Inn
Old tracks at the former site of Wayside Inn station in May 2017
General information
LocationSudbury, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°22′28″N 71°27′24″W / 42.374467°N 71.456761°W / 42.374467; -71.456761
Owned byBoston and Maine Railroad when closed
Site now owned by MBTA
Line(s)Massachusetts Central Railroad
Central Massachusetts Railroad
Platforms1
Tracks1
History
Opened1 October 1881 (1881-10-01)
ClosedBefore 1944
Rebuilt1897
Former services
Preceding station Boston and Maine Railroad Following station
Ordway
toward Northampton
 Central Mass Branch
(closed before 1944)
 South Sudbury
toward Boston

Wayside Inn station, later known as the Wayside Inn Railroad Waiting Room[1], was a flag stop station in Sudbury, Massachusetts.

Background

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Created by the Massachusetts Central Railroad in 1881 as a simple platform, it was named for the Wayside Inn approximately a mile south, to which it provided service.[2]: 192  By 1885 the successor Central Massachusetts Railroad provided service, and by 1887 the Boston and Maine Railroad (B&M) leased the ROW and named it the Central Massachusetts Branch. By 1897 a shelter building was built by B&M.[2]: 192  The building was burned down by vandals sometime in the 1940s and no remains of it are visible today.[2]: 192 

The small wooden shelter was built in a Japanese style, as nearly all consecutive stations on the line were built in a unique style to create the illusion of variety.[1][3]: 87–90  The name of the architect responsible for their design has been lost to time.[3]: 87  The station was located on Dutton Road in what is now the Wayside Inn Historic District. Passengers included innkeeper Edward Lemon, Babe Ruth and Henry Ford.[1]

In 2022, a buried transmission line project between Sudbury and Hudson began construction under the former Massachusetts Central 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 was named for this station and the Inn, and 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

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  1. ^ a b c "33 Wayside Inn Railroad Waiting Room". Sudbury Historical Society. 2024-10-07. Retrieved 2024-10-08.
  2. ^ a b c Plumb, Brian E. (2011). A History of Longfellow's Wayside Inn. Charleston, SC: History Press. ISBN 978-1609493967.
  3. ^ a b 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.
  4. ^ "Sudbury-Hudson—Eversource". E.T. & L. Corp. Retrieved 2023-09-20.
  5. ^ Autler, Gerald. "Mass Central Rail Trail—Wayside". Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation. Retrieved 2024-09-09.
  6. ^ "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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