Cape Main Line through Brockton and Middleborough and the OldColony mainline to Plymouth even after passenger service ended, so the lines were not abandoned
Old ColonyRailroad network. Passenger service, never more than a few trips per day, was often operated as Providence–Plymouth or Taunton–Plymouth trains
with the OldColony and Newport Railway terminus at Plymouth. In 1871, the Plymouth and Vineyard Sound Railroad was sold to the Cape Cod Railroad Company