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.
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 1918 drawing of Springdale station | |||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 42°08′53″N 71°07′45″W / 42.148046°N 71.129031°W | ||||||||||
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| Opened | October 1891 | ||||||||||
| Closed | July 1, 1940 | ||||||||||
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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
edit- ^ Galvin 1987, p. 21
- ^ Kantrowitz 2000, p. 89
- ^ Galvin 1987, p. 42
- ^ Galvin 1987, p. 45
- ^ Galvin 1987, p. 53
References
edit- 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.