Turners Falls branch (New Haven)

The Turners Falls branch was a railway line in Franklin County, Massachusetts, in the United States.

[1] The Fitchburg possessed its own branch to Turners Falls, originally built by the Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad in 1868.

The New Haven abandoned the Shelburne Falls Extension between South Deerfield and the connection with the former Troy and Greenfield Railroad, now the Fitchburg main line, in 1923.

[1][3] Although the B&M received some state money in the late 1970s for rehabilitating the branch,[4] service ceased in October 1981, and the B&M filed for abandonment in 1985.

[1][5] The Canalside Rail Trail, which opened in 2008, incorporates portions of both Turners Falls branches, including the former New Haven bridge over the Connecticut River.