Draft:Brookline & Pepperell Railroad

Brookline and Pepperell Railroad and Brookline & Pepperell Railroad Company should link here

Ronald Dale Karr apparently details its history in Lost Railroads of New England 1996 excerpted here

Map of 1844 railroad route from Pepperell to East Milton in N.H. Unrelated? how does route compare?

According to an inaccessible link on the Assabet River Rail Trail site "The Brookline & Milford Railroad opened in 1894. It's primary purpose was to haul ice directly to Boston. Passenger service ended in 1926 and freight in 1931."

A film on youtube captures some of what remains and describes the line's history here

Brookline & Pepperell Railroad 1892-1939 / 1942.

An opening day cloth souvenir is extant

Squannacook Junction was a rail intersection from 1892 until 1942. Ice blocks were one of the area's cargoes. According to the 2008 book New Hampshire Rail Trails, "This was the railroad that ice built."

In 1895, the Brookline & Pepperell Railroad Company had a 10.42 mile main line from Pepperell Junction to the state line. In 1906 it was documented on a branch line to Milford, New Hampshire. The junction was later along the Boston & Maine's route from Ayer to West Groton.

It was delineated as part of the border of the West Groton Water Management District in 1911. In the 1915 census it was documented as part of Groton in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.