Bridgewater (Stanleys), MA 1934 RR Station, Telegraph, Comms Pole

By Joe Maurath, Jr.; posted July 2, 2015

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This locale is about five miles south of here (Abington, MA) and has been a major southeast railroad route from Boston since the 1850s (now it is a commuter rail). In 1967 the uppermost crossarm (carrying Western Union circuits) was removed along the approximately 40-mile stretch...that I covered every inch of. The telegraph crossarms were tossed aside into the brush during the 1967 dismantling but the railroad-owned lower two crossarms for telegraph, code or whatever stayed in place until the forementioned commuter rail construction took place during the mid 1990s. The contractors were most generous with removed materials such as crossarms, poles, pins, hardware and even a couple poles that remain part of my outdoor displays and hardware/crossarm collections. This was the last openwire comms line of any kind that stood anywhere here south of Boston. This station is long gone. It stood in the "Stanleys" section of Bridgewater, about a couple miles west of the town's centre.

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