Millis station
{{Short description|Former railroad station in Millis, Massachusetts}}
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| name=Millis
| style=MBTA
| image=Lansing Millis Memorial.jpg
| image_caption=Millis station in 2009
| address=Millis, Massachusetts
| coordinates={{coord|42|10|3|N|71|21|36|W|type:railwaystation_region:US-MA|display=inline,title}}
| line=Millis Branch
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| platform=1 side platform
| tracks=2
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| closed=April 21, 1967{{NETransit}}
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| owned=New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
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| services= {{Adjacent stations|system=MBTA|line=Millis|right=Clicquot}}
| other_services_header = Former services
| other_services_collapsible = yes
| other_services = {{Adjacent stations|system=New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad|line=Charles River Line|left=Medway|right=Clicquot}}
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Millis was a railroad station in Millis, Massachusetts. It served the Millis Branch (formerly the West Medway Branch), and opened in 1886.
History
File:1899 Millis public library Massachusetts.png
In April 1966, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) reached an agreement with the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, the owner of the West Medway Branch, to subsidise continued service on the branch (as well as on the Needham, Dedham, and Franklin lines, also owned by the NYNH&H) within its funding district, starting on April 24; as Medway, outside the district, declined to pay for continued service to {{stl|NYNH&H|Medway}} and {{stl|NYNH&H|West Medway}} stations (the latter of which was, at the time, the western terminus of the branch), the branch was cut back to Millis, which became the new terminus, and became known as the Millis Branch instead of the West Medway Branch.
Slightly under a year later, on April 21, 1967, the Millis and Dedham branches were both abandoned due to continued poor ridership.{{cite book |title=Boston's Commuter Rail: The First 150 Years |author1=Humphrey, Thomas J. |author2=Clark, Norton D. |name-list-style=amp |publisher=Boston Street Railway Association |year=1985 |isbn=9780685412947 |pages=43–46}} By that time, the station had been used as the town hall for several years.{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/73259519/the-boston-globe/ |title=Old railroad depots take on new careers |first=Richard W. |last=O'Connell |newspaper=Boston Globe |date=August 18, 1968 |page=A-1 |via=Newspapers.com}} Millis station is still extant, one of only two stations on the Millis Branch (the other being {{bts|Dover|Millis}}) to have survived; it is now known as the Lansing Millis Memorial Railroad Station, part of the Millis Center Historic District.
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Category:MBTA Commuter Rail stations in Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Category:Former MBTA stations in Massachusetts
Category:Buildings and structures in Millis, Massachusetts
Category:Railway stations in the United States opened in 1886
Category:1886 establishments in Massachusetts
Category:1967 disestablishments in Massachusetts
Category:Railway stations in the United States closed in 1967
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