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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 20., Medford Branch Railroad. (search)
se owing to misplaced switch. This record indicates that some Medford Branch trains were attached to other inward trains at Medford Junction and the combined train taken over the Main line to Boston by one engine. A similar arrangement obtained on other roads. Such would have left the Medford engine free to return with cars brought to the junction by another outward train, and better accommodated the time schedule. Report of another accident was nearer home:— September 4, 1857, Mrs. Dexter Loud of Abington was fatally injured at Park street station. It was not known whether she stepped from the car on to the track; her dress caught on the step of the engine and she was dragged under the wheels. Doubtless further search of reports would reveal further accidents and fatalities, and we have only quoted those on the branch or in some way related thereto. This branch railroad certainly was of great service to Medford in its earlier years, and had its first competitor in pas