Hillsboro Branch

Just need a little info on the ex-Hillsboro Branch in New Hampshire. Does anyone know the date of the last freight to the town of Hillsboro before the line was cut back to Bennington? Also, when were those rails removed? Does the station still exist in Hillsboro?

Reference Lost Railroads of New England by Ronald Dale Karr the line from Hillsboro to Bennington NH was abandoned by the B&M 8.4 miles in 1979.

This website, last updated in 2012, states the following:

"Hillsborough: The original B&M freight depot here still stands, used as a business"

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Here's a photo from the 60's. I don't recognize the location in Hillsborough.
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This webpage, updated 2013, does not show any remaining station in Hillsborough
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Your guess is as good as mine....

I haven't been down that way in some time, but I recall the depot standing in its original spot alongside the old Route 9/202 in the east side of the village. As you're probably aware, the line originally extended to Henniker.

A lot of the Hillsborough Branch within Hillsborough itself has been obliterated, as the several-hundred-foot-long pile trestle that brought the rails into the village from the south was torn down when the line was abandoned. If you were to drive around that part of the neighborhood today (down in back of the business section), you would think the railroad never existed.

Thanks for the info! With both the covered bridge and the trestle in Hillsboro gone there really isn't much evidence left. I'll have to stop by there someday. Hillsborough didn't seem to get much attention with Monadbock Paper and the Bennington bridge being so close south, so I have never really seen many photographs from the last years of B&M service. Wonder what the last few customers were!

Dick H,

The Gary LaPointe website page you linked does not show any reference to Hillsboro in Cheshire County because Hillsboro is not in Cheshire County. Shocking as it may seem to some, Hillsboro is in Hillsborough County (-ugh optional, I guess). However, you are correct in that there is no evidence remaining of a passenger or freight station today in any county.

PBM

PBM: Thanks for the heads up on the correct County for Hillsborough.
I should have checked Wiki...

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