Harvard Branch Railroad

1852 map

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 0.70 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 did so in 1855. The Cambridge Railroad started running to Harvard from Boston in 1856 as a street railway, via a different route.

References

Railroad History Database

Fitchburg Railroad branches

Boston–Fitchburg	Watertown Marlboro Greenville Milford

Fitchburg–Greenfield	Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad: Ashburnham Cheshire Peterboro Boston, Barre and Gardner Turners Falls

Greenfield-Troy	Southern Vermont Troy and Boston Bennington Greenfield Boston, Hoosac Tunnel and Western Railway: Saratoga Springs/Schuylerville

Temporary branches	Harvard Lexington

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