. Suburban homes on the "Old Colony." A directory for those who seek a suburban residence . rivileges, while most of them have more thanone, and sometimes five or six, stations within their limits. 6 It will be noticed in the following pages that the names of railroadstations, rather than of the towns to which they belong, have been givenas titles preceding descriptions, although invariably the town namewill be found somewhere in the detailed account connected. Thus, onemight search in vain, using an ordinary map or gazetteer of Massachu-setts, to And the places, Egypt, Titicut, Greenbush, or
. Suburban homes on the "Old Colony." A directory for those who seek a suburban residence . rivileges, while most of them have more thanone, and sometimes five or six, stations within their limits. 6 It will be noticed in the following pages that the names of railroadstations, rather than of the towns to which they belong, have been givenas titles preceding descriptions, although invariably the town namewill be found somewhere in the detailed account connected. Thus, onemight search in vain, using an ordinary map or gazetteer of Massachu-setts, to And the places, Egypt, Titicut, Greenbush, or the like,these names belonging respectively to villages containing stations ofthe railroad, and in nowise indicating the town name of the any case, where larger or more detailed information is desired thanthis book contains, concerning any place to which it refers, or anysituation in the whole region, the fullest answers will be promptlyand cheerfully given to all queries forwarded to the Passenger Depart-ment of the Old Colony Railroad, at the general headquarters KATES, TRAINS AJiD TICKETS. The tabulated information at the head of each descriptive accountafforded in this book is necessarily incomplete in details, since the run-ning of trains must vary, with regard to numbers and character ofthe same, according to the season of the year and the volume of travel,and the lists would become too long were every kind of special rateembodied therein. Of the service it may here be said that the number ofdaily and Sunday trains on every part of the system is largely aug-mented each summer, or during the warm months, express andexcursion trains to important and attractive points along the sea-shoreand to the centres being at these times frequent and timely, while theregular service throughout the year is never allowed to fall below thelimit of entire sufficiency. Theatre trains are run onights for theaccommodation of nearly all the localities indicated within thi
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