{"id":13362,"date":"2015-12-09T06:47:49","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T11:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=13362"},"modified":"2015-12-09T09:35:17","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T14:35:17","slug":"historic-relic-old-railway-station-at-holden-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/historic-relic-old-railway-station-at-holden-massachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Relic; old Railway Station at Holden, Massachusetts."},"content":{"rendered":"

One hundred and thirty five years ago, the railway station was key to many communities commerce and communications. It offered the connection to the world.<\/p>\n

My 1880 Official Guide is a window on the past. The Boston, Barre & Gardner Railroad (among the companies later melded into the Boston & Maine network) schedule lists three trains a day in each direction stopping at Holden, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

Trains ran from Worcester to Winchendon stopping at Holden at 8:28 am, 4:15 pm, and 7 pm, and Winchendon to Worcester \u00a0at 9:06 am, 1:22 pm, and 7 pm.<\/p>\n

Obviously based on this schedule, there was a planned meet between northward and southward trains at the station.<\/p>\n

In its heyday, back in 1880 Holden was an important station. It served as a telegraph office and as a transfer point for stagecoaches to Rutland (Massachusetts).<\/p>\n

Today the old station is but a relic, the vestige of another time. Its train order signal is no longer part of the rules of operation; and the last passenger train passed in 1953. Yet the railroad remains active.<\/p>\n

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The old Boston & Maine station at Holden is a reminder of earlier times. Exposed with a FujiFilm X-T1 digital camera.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Providence & Worcester\u2019s freights connect with Pan Am Railways\/Pan Am Southern at Gardner and this has developed as a route for the movement of new automobiles and ethanol moving via the port of Providence, Rhode Island.<\/p>\n

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Providence & Worcester’s southward freight symbol GRWO shakes the walls of the old station. Don’t wait here for a 4-4-0 with combine coach on the 4:15 pm train to Winchendon. (It doesn’t run any more).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My book, Railway Depots, Stations & Terminals<\/a> features a variety of railway stations in New England, across America and around the world. It was published by Voyageur Press<\/a> this year and is available from Amazon<\/a> and other outlets.<\/p>\n

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