of the station buildings had been abandoned or sold, with small wooden shelters provided instead. Seven additional stations on the Yarmouth–Provincetown segment reopened around June 24 for summer seasonal service. Abandonment proposal On July 18, 1938, the court approved the New Haven charging the Old Colony over $11 million (equivalent to over $ million in ) in operating costs under the segregation formula. The Old Colony could not appeal the charges because it had not appealed the formula earlier in the year. By this point, Old Colony stock was below 50 cents. On May 31, 1939, with Palmer v. Massachusetts pending, the Old Colony filed an amended reorganization plan calling for the abandonment of all passenger service in the "Boston Group" – the primary group of lines into Boston, including the Greenbush, Plymouth, and Middleborough lines and the shared mainline north of Braintree. At that time, 121 daily trains were operated on those lines. Freight service on some lines of the Boston Group would continue, though others would be fully abandoned. The New Haven simultaneously filed its own amended plan which stated that it was not willing to directly acquire the Old Colony unless all Boston Group passenger service was discontinued, but did wish to directly acquire the B&P. The New Haven would continue to operate passenger trains from the South Coast and Cape Cod, which together lost one-third of what the Boston group did, reaching Boston via Taunton and the B&P mainline. It would purchase the Old Colony's lines in Cape Cod and west of Boston (which collectively made a profit on freight), as well as the South Boston Market Terminal; the New Haven and Old Colony would split the latter's share of the Union Freight Railroad. On June 12, 1939, the trustees filed for a September 24 discontinuance of all passenger service in the Boston Group, as well as to Cape Cod (which had not been slated for discontinuance in the May proposal). This resulted in an "uproar of confusion, resentment, and panic" from the public and the Massachusetts government. Dever, alleging that the New Haven had betrayed the public trust and failed to prove the claimed losses on the Old Colony, threatened to revoke the franchise of the New Haven in the state. On June 14, the ICC unexpectedly announced that the proposed abandonment would not be considered as part of the ongoing reorganization, but would instead