| Worcester, Nashua and Portland Railroad History |
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| Worcester, Nashua and Portland Railroad History |
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The Sandown Depot Station was built at
milepost
64.64
on the W,N&P Line in 1873. The line handled the largest volume of freight traffic
of any unsignaled, single line track in the country. During its most active period, Sandown saw 18 freight and
6 passenger trains per day pass through town. The famous "Bar Harbor Express" passed through Sandown
sometimes carrying the Roosevelts and Rockefellers to their summer home. |
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Sandown had a very attractive station to greet visitors whether they stopped or were just passing though. In 1889 President Benjamin Harrison made a whistle stop visit. The town women made a flag measuring 30 x 50 feet in his honor prior to the visit. |
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Follow these links to see the route of the W,N &P line or the entire railmap of the Boston & Maine Railroad. |
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Some of the products shipped by rail were lumber, wooden tubs and pails, milk, shoes, barrels of molasses, crates of dishes, cattle, coal and household supplies. |
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Many serious accidents occurred on this line, at least four in Sandown. |
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Because of the invention of autos and trucks and the cost of maintaining the road bed, the trains were discontinued in 1933 and the tracks removed in 1935. The station agents were George Sanborn, Beverly Seeley and C. Burton French. |