Bedford’s Annual Town Meeting on March 28 authorized a $1.5 million expenditure to acquire easements along the Reformatory Branch right-of-way for a proposed project to pave the trail, but the article to authorize taking of the properties failed.
An anonymous donor is making possible the opening of the Freight House public restrooms on weekdays in April, a time of the year when they ordinarily would be open only on weekends.
This is a brief iPhone video walkthrough of the growing historical archives at the Freight House. This is where the histories of the Billerica & Bedford Railroad and the Boston and Maine’s Lexington and Reformatory Branches are preserved. Support from the...
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