Lake Street station (Arlington, Massachusetts)

LAKE STREET
Lake Street station in 1915
General information
Coordinates	42°24′16.3″N 71°8′49.1″W
Owned by	Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
Line(s)	Lexington Branch
History
Opened	1846 (original); March 1968 (MBTA)
Closed	1958 (original); 10 January 1977 (final)
Passengers
≤10 daily (1976)
Services
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Lake Street is a former station on the Lexington Branch, opened in 1846 along with the rest of the Lexington Branch and ending its life as part of the MBTA Commuter Rail system. In 1958, the two Lexington Branch stations in Arlington (Lake Street and Arlington Centre) were closed; however, due to community opposition to their closure, the two stations were later reopened, Arlington Centre in October 1965 and Lake Street in March 1968. In January 1977, following a major snowstorm which temporarily shut down the Lexington Branch, stranding a train at Bedford Depot, the MBTA announced that commuter rail service on the branch would not be restored. In the 1980s, the MBTA planned to extend the Red Line through Arlington and Lexington to Route 128 along the former path of the Lexington Branch as part of the Northwest Extension, but fierce opposition from Arlington residents scuttled this plan, and the Northwest Extension was cut short to Alewife in northwestern Cambridge.

The only surviving stations of the Lexington Branch are Bedford Depot and Lexington; Lake Street was demolished at some point following the branch's closure.

The former site of Lake Street station, photographed in August 2013