Salisbury Point Railroad Station

Salisbury Point Station was built by the Eastern Railroad in the 1870s.  Passenger service ceased in 1936 and B&M sold the station in 1938.  It was once the source of Amesbury's famous "Ghost Trains."

The Legend of the Ghost Trains

Salisbury's Ghost Trail is named in honor of the spectral “Ghost Trains” that once traveled between Amesbury and Salisbury, then on through Newburyport to Boston.  Jerry Klima, a Director of the Coastal Trails Coalition and a Salisbury Selectman, recently told the story to the Amesbury Municipal Council.  

During the late 1800s, Amesbury, Salisbury Point and Salisbury Mills (both now part of Amesbury) became the carriage-making capital of the country. Over time, carriage-making gave way to the production of bodies for early Essex, Hudson and Franklin automobiles. To protect the wooden carriages and early automobile bodies from the cinders and soot of the old steam locomotives, factory workers covered them with white muslin cloth.  At the time, the land, now either forested or developed, had been cleared for agriculture, so these trains could be seen from quite a distance, the sound being left behind. The white shrouded forms gliding along the rails and across the marshes at twilight appeared to spectators as floating ghosts.