by OHanrahan
Were there ever any plans for the railroad to go to Burlington, MA?
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TomNelligan wrote:Do trolleys count? In ancient times, the Bay State Street Railway (the largest trolley company in the country in 1910 in terms of mileage) had a short-lived Woburn-Burlington-Billerica-Lowell line that passed through the town, but it was converted to buses in 1931.I guess you could say that trolleys do count also. Since thay run in rail obviously, and I can qualify them to be trains in Burlington. But most people are right, Burlington was kinda out of the way to put a true railroad within their confines of that town.
Ron Newman wrote:Is today's MBTA bus #350 a direct descendant of that trolley and bus line?I don't think so. I know when I was very young, there were two buses numbered in the 700s, one was express via 128 and I-93, the other a local, to Kendall Sq. (the sign backs designating those route numbers were still around in some locations a few years ago). After Alewife station was opened in the mid 1980s, the routes were renumbered to the 350 series, 352 being the express from LaCascia's Bakery in the northern part of the town to Government Center in Boston and the 350 being the serice via Cambridge St, the Mall then south on Route 3 through Woburn, Winchester, Arlington and on to Alewife Station. It took a much different route than the old trolley line.