Somerville station (Fitchburg Railroad)
Somerville station | |
|---|---|
| File:Somerville Station 1884.PNG Somerville station on an 1884 map | |
| General information | |
| Coordinates | 42°22′54.5″N 71°6′25.7″W / 42.381806°N 71.107139°W |
| Line(s) | Fitchburg Railroad |
| History | |
| Closed | July 9, 1938 |
Somerville station was a train station on the Fitchburg Railroad in Somerville, Massachusetts.
A predecessor station was briefly in service 0.2 miles (0.32 km) west at Kent Street which opened in 1842.[1][2]: 81
By 1851 the station was open at Park Street, near the junction of the Harvard Branch Railroad.[3][4] The station building was located on the north side of the tracks, just west of Park Street.[5][6]
Service to Somerville and Union Square stations ended on July 9, 1938, in concert with the end of passenger service on the Watertown Branch.[7][8][9] The neighborhood is now served by the MBTA Commuter Rail Fitchburg Line at Porter Station 0.75 miles (1.21 km) northwest.
References
- ^ PRESERVATION STAFF REPORT for Determination of Preferably Preserved (PDF) (Report). Somerville Historic Preservation Commission. September 25, 2018. p. 1.
- ^ Samuels, Edward Augustus; Kimball, Henry Hastings (1897). Somerville, past and present : an illustrated historical souvenir commemorative of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the establishment of the city government of Somerville, Massachusetts – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Dinsmore, Curran (1851). American Railway Guide, p. 94, at Google Books
- ^ H.F. Walling (1854). "Map of the City of Cambridge" – via Ward Maps.
- ^ Postcard: Boston & Maine Railroad Somerville, Massachusetts Station – via Nashua City Station
- ^ Boston & Maine Railroad Historical Society, Somerville, Mass. station – via Flickr
- ^ Central Transportation Planning Staff (January 2004). "Chapter 5C: Service Expansion" (PDF). 2004 Program for Mass Transportation. Boston Metropolitan Planning Organization. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 February 2008. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
- ^ Humphrey, Thomas J.; Clark, Norton D. (1986). Boston's Commuter Rail: Second Section. Boston Street Railway Association. ISBN 9780938315025.
- ^ "At the State House". Boston Globe. April 12, 1938. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
