Harvard Branch Railroad
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The Harvard Branch Railroad was a short-lived branch from the Fitchburg Railroad to Harvard Square and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Part of the former right-of-way is now used by Museum Street.
The company was incorporated April 24, 1849, and soon built a line .70 miles long from just west of Somerville station on the Fitchburg Railroad (at Park Street) southwest to Harvard. On April 19, 1854 it was authorized to abandon the line, and it did so in 1855. The Cambridge Railroad started running to Harvard in 1856 as a street railway.
| Fitchburg Railroad branches | |
| Boston–Fitchburg | Watertown – Marlboro – Greenville – Milford |
| Fitchburg–Greenfield | Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad: Ashburnham – Cheshire – Peterboro – Boston, Barre and Gardner – Turners Falls |
| west from Greenfield | Troy and Greenfield Railroad: Southern Vermont – Troy and Boston – Bennington Boston, Hoosac Tunnel and Western Railway: Saratoga Springs/Schuylerville |
| temporary branches | Harvard – Lexington |
