Timetable - April 27, 1952

Green is the color scheme for this timetable. Sharp-eyed viewers will note the locomotive on the front and rear covers is 700, it would be the fall of 1952 before the B&A went to two digits on its diesel locomotives. 
The Potatoland Special is the morning Northbound and the afternoon Southbound express, with the Aroostook Flyer being the morning Southbound and afternoon Northbound. Service for all trains and buses listed was daily-except-Sunday. You could still get a train to Greenville from Derby, but also a bus. A separate passenger service left Oakfield to perform the local duties, connecting with the Potatoland Special in Oakfield in both directions. Interestingly the connection between the Maine Central and the Northbound Aroostook Flyer seems to have been made at Northern Maine Junction, not in Bangor. The Maine Central train was supposed to arrive at NMJ at 5:07 PM, with the Northbound Flyer arriving at 5:08. However the Flyer was not scheduled to leave until 5:20. A 12 minute station stop for a train that had only just left its originating station seems a bit long, unless one was transferring passengers and baggage. The Flyer carried no sleeping cars but the Potatoland Special did. The schedule was such that the Potatoland did go all the way to Bangor, allowing its sleeping cars to be switched to other trains. 

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