1920 Photo of the Amesbury freight yard. Note the station near the end of track.
Photo courtesy of the Salisbury Point Railroad Historical Society
 

Timetable for the Amesbury Branch, taken from Employee Timetable of the late 40's.

1944 topo map showing the Amesbury Branch. Note the sidings in the center of town.

Click here for a much more detailed map of the Amesbury Branch.

These pictures were taken in May of 2002.

View of the station from the parking deck. The tracks passed on this side of the station. The tracks passed from right to left, the end of track was just beyond the station on the left side of this picture.

End view of the station looking West.

Other side of the station, I assume this is the back side.

I'm standing on the parking deck, in front of the station, looking East. This is where the tracks came in from. There was a bridge or trestle of some sort that carrying the tracks over to the station.

Another view from the parking deck, you can see the river if you look closely. The tracks came in from across the river.

Sign near the beginning of the bike path.
 

Another sign near the beginning of the bike path.

Bike path. Looking East. This part of the bike path is not on the railroad right of way.
 
 
 

Trestle pilings where trestle crossed Powow River, just east of the station.

Don't see abutments but there could be some there. The tracks crossed the river here.
 

Another view of the river, just east of the station, the tracks crossed on a bridge of some type.

Yet another view. The river is only a few hundred feet east of the station.

This building is at the Chestnut Street crossing. The tracks passed by here.
 

Here the bikepath is going onto the old right of way which passed behind the houses in these pictures. This picture was taken at the other end of the red building pictured above.

I have turned around after taking the picture above and am looking at the opposite end of the red building pictured above. The tracks passed on the right sideof the building.

Bikepath and railroad right of way passing behind some houses. Picture taken from Oakland St, maybe 500 feet or so East of the previous picture.
 

View of bikepath and right of way taken from bridge on Oak St. This view is looking East towards Salisbury. The Oak St bridge is only a short distance East of the previous picture.

View from Oak St bridge looking West.
 

Oak St bridge showing year built.

Bridge on Oak S looking South.

Interesting abandoned factory building. I am trying to find out what was made here and if they had rail service.

Same factory building.

View of link connecting two buildings across Oak St.

View of right of way from behind the big factory building.

Another view of the factory building.
 
 

What's this?
 
 
 
 

They sure got truck service, I don't remember seeing any place for rail though.
 

Turned around, heading back up Oak St towards the bridge.
 
 

Amesbury branch looking West from Elm Street. This view is looking towards the Stop and Shop plaza that is built, unfortunately, on the old right of way.

Old post, off Elm St

Looking East towards the Elm St crossing.

Battery Box, batteries used to be store in these boxes to power railroad signal equipment.

Elm Street Crossing looking East.

This is the Rocky Hill Rd crossing. The location of the Salisbury Point station. At one time this was Salisbury. You can see the West side of the Stop and Shop plaza here. The building on the right did have rail service.
 

Looking West from the Rocky Hill Rd crossing.

Block signal base tossed off to the side?

That's 495 up ahead.

Looking West, going under 495.

Old tie plate laying around.

Continuing West after crossing under 495.

Looking East back towards the former Salisbury Point, Rocky Hill Rd

Back at the Rocky Hill Rd crossing.

Used to be a siding right here. This building is on the East side of the Rocky Hill Rd crossing.

Ok, I've moved East a short distance, down to where the line goes under 95. Note that this part is not paved or made into a trail of any kind. I parked on Rabbit Rd and walked West to where the line crossed under 95.
 
 
 

Just west of the Rabbit Rd crossing.

Just west of Rabbit Rd crossing. Something used to be here.

Looking East towards the Rabbit Rd crossing.

Two views of the Rabbit Rd crossing.

Iron still in the ground at the Rabbit Rd crossing.

Iron still in ground on East side of crossing.
 

These things were used to hold rail I am told. I have seen them up on the Portsmouth to Manchester line.

Right of way just East of Rabbit Rd crossing.

Right of way just East of Rabbit Rd crossing.

Industry, once served by rail, just east of Rabbit Rd crossing.

This right of way is adjacent to the Amesbury branch and runs all the way to the Eastern.

Wonder if this was ever a trolley line or just a power line right of way?
 

Power line right of way looking West, towards Rabbit Rd.

Here are some pieces of the Amesbury branch. Near True Rd.

Ties left in the ground on the Amesbury branch.

Coming up on the Cushing Rd crossing, looking East.

Walking East towards the jct with the Eastern.

Lot of water here, as you get closer to the jct with the Eastern Route, the water gets worse. This is not very far from that jct.

Unfortunately the line is not passable beyond this point. We are in the curve coming into the jct with the Eastern.

Turned around, walking back.

Back at the Cushing Rd crossing. Continuing on towards True Rd

Continuing across Cushing, towards True Rd and then beyond.

The rest of the pictures were taken from Cushing Rd East up to about a half mile from this point.