Waban (MBTA station)

This article is about the transit station. For the village in Newton, see Waban, Massachusetts. For the 17th century Native American, see Waban. For the U.S. Navy ship, see USS Waban (1880).

WABAN
Waban station at night
Station statistics
Address	Beacon Street at Waban Square, Newton
Coordinates	42°19′33.53″N 71°13′50.56″W
Lines	Green Line "D" branch
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Parking	74 spaces ($5.50 per day)
Bicycle facilities	12 spaces
Other information
Opened	July 4, 1959
Accessible
Owned by	Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
Traffic
Passengers (2009 daily)	427
Services
Preceding station   MBTA   Following station Woodland toward Riverside Green Line "D" Branch Eliot toward Government Center

Waban is a surface-level rapid transit station on the Green Line "D" Branch of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. It is located just south of Beacon Street at Waban Square, in the Waban section of Newton, Massachusetts.

Today the station has two MBTA ticket machines for reloading stored-value CharlieCards and buying CharlieTickets, as well one fare validation machine. All three are enclosed in a heated passenger shed near the center of the inbound platform.

History

Waban formerly boasted an H.H. Richardson-designed train station, like those still standing in Newton Highlands and Newton Center. The original station was completed in August 1886 as part of the Boston and Albany Railroad and was one of the last stations designed by Richardson before his death in April 1886. The station was demolished in order to build the modern 74-space parking lot.

Originally, the Eliot stop was to have been named Waban, and the Waban stop was to have been named Eliot, but the two names were switched accidentally when the first train schedules were printed, and it was easier to change the names of the stations than to print new schedules. The Eliot Oak is located east of Annawan Road southwest of the Waban station.

Waban closed along with the rest of the Highland Branch commuter rail line in 1958 and reopened on July 4, 1959 as part of the light rail D Branch.

External links

• MBTA - Waban
• Media related to Waban (MBTA station) at Wikimedia Commons
• Beacon Street entrance from Google Maps Street View