Wayside Inn station

Wayside Inn
Wayside Inn
	The former station site in October 2025, with historical granite marker installed by DCR as part of the Mass Central Rail Trail—Wayside project.
General information
Location	Sudbury, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°22′28″N 71°27′24″W / 42.374467°N 71.456761°W
Owner	Boston and Maine Railroad when closed; Site now owned by MBTA
Lines	Central Massachusetts Branch (Boston & Maine)
Platforms	1 (former)
Tracks	1 (former)
History
Opened	1 October 1881
Closed	Before 1944
Rebuilt	1897
Former services
Location
Location

Wayside Inn station was a flag stop station in Sudbury, Massachusetts.

History

Created by the Massachusetts Central Railroad in 1881 as a simple platform, it was named for the Wayside Inn approximately a mile south, to which it provided service.^: 192 By 1885 the successor Central Massachusetts Railroad provided service, and by 1887 the Boston and Maine Railroad (B&M) leased the ROW and named it the Central Massachusetts Branch. By 1897 a shelter building was built by B&M.^: 192 The building was burned down by vandals sometime in the 1940s and no remains of it are visible today.^: 192

The small wooden shelter was built in a Japanese style, as nearly all consecutive stations on the line were built in a unique style to create the illusion of variety.^: 87–90 The name of the architect responsible for their design has been lost to time.^: 87 The station was located on Dutton Road in what is now the Wayside Inn Historic District. Passengers included innkeeper Edward Lemon, Babe Ruth and Henry Ford.

In 2022, a buried transmission line project between Sudbury and Hudson began construction under the former Massachusetts Central Railroad ROW for which it provided service. This project subsidized the cost of building a section of the Mass Central Rail Trail—Wayside, which was named for this station and the Inn, and which completed construction in 2025. As part of this project, DCR installed a granite marker to commemorate the archaeological site.^: 6

References

1 2 3 Plumb, Brian E. (2011). A History of Longfellow's Wayside Inn. Charleston, SC: History Press. ISBN 978-1609493967.
1 2 "33 Wayside Inn Railroad Waiting Room". Sudbury Historical Society. October 7, 2024. Retrieved October 8, 2024.
1 2 The Boston & Maine Railroad Historical Society, Inc. (2008). The Central Mass (Second ed.). Brimfield, MA: Marker Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-9662736-3-2.
↑ "Sudbury-Hudson—Eversource". E.T. & L. Corp. Retrieved September 20, 2023.
↑ Autler, Gerald. "Mass Central Rail Trail—Wayside". Department of Conservation and Recreation. Retrieved February 25, 2026.
↑ "Memorandum of Agreement Between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Massachusetts Historical Commission, NSTAR d/b/a Eversource Energy and the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation Regarding the Sudbury-Hudson Transmission Reliability and Mass Central Rail Trail Project, Hudson, Stow, Marlborough, and Sudbury, Massachusetts" (PDF). Town of Sudbury, Massachusetts. October 19, 2022. Retrieved October 21, 2024.

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[:0-1] 1 2 3 Plumb, Brian E. (2011). A History of Longfellow's Wayside Inn. Charleston, SC: History Press. ISBN 978-1609493967.

[:26-2] 1 2 "33 Wayside Inn Railroad Waiting Room". Sudbury Historical Society. October 7, 2024. Retrieved October 8, 2024.

[CM-3] 1 2 The Boston & Maine Railroad Historical Society, Inc. (2008). The Central Mass (Second ed.). Brimfield, MA: Marker Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-9662736-3-2.

[4] "Sudbury-Hudson—Eversource". E.T. & L. Corp. Retrieved September 20, 2023.

[:22-5] Autler, Gerald. "Mass Central Rail Trail—Wayside". Department of Conservation and Recreation. Retrieved February 25, 2026.

[6] "Memorandum of Agreement Between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Massachusetts Historical Commission, NSTAR d/b/a Eversource Energy and the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation Regarding the Sudbury-Hudson Transmission Reliability and Mass Central Rail Trail Project, Hudson, Stow, Marlborough, and Sudbury, Massachusetts" (PDF). Town of Sudbury, Massachusetts. October 19, 2022. Retrieved October 21, 2024.