West Medford station
WEST MEDFORD | |||||||||||||||
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Location | 481 High Street Medford, MA 02155-6735 | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 42°25′18″N 71°08′00″W / 42.4218°N 71.13332°W | ||||||||||||||
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Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||
Connections | MBTA Bus: 80, 94, 95, 326 | ||||||||||||||
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Parking | 30 Spaces | ||||||||||||||
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Fare zone | 1A | ||||||||||||||
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2013 | 819 (weekday inbound average)[1] | ||||||||||||||
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West Medford is a regional rail station on the MBTA Commuter Rail Lowell Line, located at West Medford Square in Medford, Massachusetts. West Medford station is not handicapped accessible.
History
When the original Boston and Lowell Railroad was laid out in the 1830s, West Medford was mostly farmland. The route of the new railroad (one of the oldest railroads in North America) was built on land acquired from Peter Chardon Brooks, who sold a strip for the right-of-way plus a parcel for the station on High Street. The initial stop was called "Medford Gates"; it gave birth to West Medford Square and, eventually, the surrounding residential neighborhoods.
The depot structure built in 1880 was destroyed by a fire in 1950. The finial from the roof of the station now resides today at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.
Bus connections
Three MBTA Bus routes - two local routes and one express - stop directly on High Street (MA-60) at West Medford station:
- 94 Medford Square - Davis Square Station via West Medford & Medford Hillside
- 95 West Medford - Sullivan Square Station via Mystic Avenue
- 326 West Medford - Haymarket Station via Playstead Road, High Street, Medford & I-93
One additional route stops on Boston Avenue two blocks to the southwest:
- 80 Arlington Center - Lechmere Station via Medford Hillside
References
- ^ "Ridership and Service Statistics" (PDF) (14 ed.). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 2014. Retrieved 14 December 2015.