Wellesley Square station
WELLESLEY SQUARE
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File:Wellesley Square station, April 2016.JPG
Station platforms viewed from Crest Road in 2013
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Location | 1 Grove Street Wellesley, Massachusetts |
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Owned by | MBTA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Platforms | 2 side platforms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Parking | 224 spaces ($4.50 fee) 2 accessible spaces |
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Fare zone | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | c. 1850[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rebuilt | 1889, 1962[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Previous names | Wellesley | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Passengers (2013) | 804 (weekday inbound average)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Wellesley Square is a regional rail station on the MBTA Commuter Rail Framingham/Worcester Line, located just north of the MA 16-MA 135 intersection in downtown Wellesley, Massachusetts. It serves both walk-up and park-and-ride commuters, with a 224-space parking lot for the latter group. The station has low-level platforms and is not handicapped accessible.
History
The Boston & Worcester Railroad (B&W), extending outwards from Boston, reached through the West Parish of Needham in mid-1834.[3] In 1839, the line was double tracked through the area.[4] A station on the (B&W) opened at West Needham around 1850.[1] It was renamed to Wellesley after the adjacent village in 1863, though the West Parish did not formerly separate from Needham to become Wellesley until 1881.[5] The wood-framed building was moved half a mile to the east in 1889 (where it still stands, in use as a restaurant), when H. H. Richardson's successors Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge designed a stone Richardsonian Romanesque station for the Boston & Albany Railroad (B&A), which had taken over the B&W.[1]
The 1889-built depot was demolished around 1962, and bare asphalt platforms replaced it. Amtrak Inland Route service served it until 1975, and from 1984 to 1986, but intercity ridership was very low compared to MBTA Commuter Rail ridership. In 1977 or 1978, the station was renamed Wellesley Square to differentiate it from the other two stations in Wellesley.[6][7]
References
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External links
- MBTA - Wellesley Square
- Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons
- HABS entry for Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge station
- Former Wellesley Amtrak Station (USA RailGuide -- TrainWeb)
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- Pages with broken file links
- Stations along Boston and Albany Railroad lines
- MBTA Commuter Rail stations in Norfolk County, Massachusetts
- Former Amtrak stations in Massachusetts
- Railway stations opened in 1889
- Romanesque Revival architecture in Massachusetts
- Wellesley, Massachusetts
- Massachusetts railway station stubs