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1870 Railroad Station and Museum
The Station is in Heritage Park, at the bottom of Water Street, Amesbury
The SPRRHS website, is as it was in 2015.
It is still running today as a historic record:
http://salisburypoint.tnsing.com
In 2015 SPRRHS ceased indpendant operatinos and the assets were were taken over by Amesbury Carriage Museum.
The inside of the station can be seen on special occastions, or by appointment wth the Amesbury Carriage Museum.
You can see the outside all the time !
The Salisbury Point Railroad Historical Society, was a non-profit organization, established for the purpose of preserving and making available information pertaining to the history of the Amesbury branch of the Boston & Maine Railroad, the Boston and Maine Railroad itself, its predecessors and related materials pertaining to the history of railroads in New England.
SPRRHS was founded in 1980, by Richard Nicols, Robert Grodzicki and the crew, to restore the Salisbury Point Station.
The station was renovated behind the Bartlett Museum in Amesbury. It was later moved to its current location in Heritage Park. Full information is available on the website. See our publicity video on the right ........
SPRRHS was a very active and exciting organization, until it wasn't. In the end we ran out of premises and people.
For updated information please contact the Carriage Museum
16_Salisbury_Point_RR.mp4Note that the SPRRHS publicity video above is now out of date due to dissolution of SPRRHS, but it does serve as a historic reference to the station and the Hat Museum, as well as and showing some of the other assets and activities.
SPRRHS was a very active and exciting organization, until it wasn't. In the end we ran out of premises and people.
There were trips to NE railroads
There was a monthly newsletter focused on local railroad history.
This ran for 18 years and was published monthly.
The last 12 years copies are online in the website – that’s 144 copies.
3. We produced and sold kits of unique local railroad cars,
4. We went to train shows, selling our cars and gathering historic artifacts.
5. We ran the annual Amesbury Christmas Train show,
6. We gathered libraries of photographs, books, videos, maps and other metal things!
7. We had six working model layouts in the archive room
Visitors could bring their own engines and watch them run ! ( HO, OO, S, G, N
(see the video above)
Due to SPRRHS’s dwindling membership , and the "loss of one of our entrances" we had to formally close down ,
This was necessary to ensure the Salisbury Point Station was presereved,
All SPRRHS’s assets were taken over by the Amesbury Carriage Museum on 2015-07-22 and SPRRHS was dissolved.
The station is now in Heritage Park at the bottom of Water Street in Amesbury.
The original SPRRHS website is still available as a historic time capsule and can be accessed at http://salisburypoint.tnsing.com
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