Springdale station (Massachusetts)

Springdale station was a New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad station in the village of Springdale in Canton, Massachusetts. It was located on the Stoughton Branch.

Springdale
A drawing of a small railroad station
1918 drawing of Springdale station
General information
Coordinates42.148046°N 71.129031°W / 42.148046; -71.129031
Line(s)
History
OpenedOctober 1891 (1891-10)
ClosedJuly 1, 1940 (1940-07-01)
Former lines
Preceding station New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Following station
West Stoughton
toward Taunton
Stoughton Branch Canton

The station was built by the Old Colony Railroad at a cost $1,200. It opened in October 1891.[1] It replaced an older building built in 1855.[2] In 1919 the building was used in the filming of the now-lost silent film Anne of Green Gables, starring Mary Miles Minter.[3]

By the 1920s improvements in local highways led to reduced service on the Stoughton Branch, with both Springdale and West Stoughton in danger of being closed.[4] They and other low-traffic stations were further endangered by the New Haven's 1935 bankruptcy. By the late 1930s service at Springdale was done to four weekday trains per day, handling a total of eleven passengers. The station was closed and demolished on July 1, 1940.[5]

Notes

  1. Galvin 1987, p. 21
  2. Kantrowitz 2000, p. 89
  3. Galvin 1987, p. 42
  4. Galvin 1987, p. 45
  5. Galvin 1987, p. 53

References

  • Galvin, Edward D. (1987). A History of Canton Junction. Brunswick, Maine: Distributed by Sculpin Publications. OCLC 17939563.
  • Kantrowitz, Marc (2000). Canton. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-0442-1.
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