South Shore Railroad

Map
Map of the South Shore system
Braintree station on an early postcard. This station, not the same as the modern station, was located where the South Shore Railroad (left) met the Old Colony mainline (right).

The South Shore Railroad was a railroad in Massachusetts. It was incorporated in 1846 to provide rail service between Quincy and Duxbury, Massachusetts through the towns of Hingham, Cohasset, Scituate and Marshfield.