Wakefield station (MBTA)
Wakefield | |||||||||||
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Location | 225 North Avenue, Wakefield, Massachusetts | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 42°30′8.0″N 71°4′32.3″W / 42.502222°N 71.075639°WCoordinates: 42°30′8.0″N 71°4′32.3″W / 42.502222°N 71.075639°W | ||||||||||
Owned by | Town of Wakefield | ||||||||||
Line(s) | Western Route | ||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
Connections | MBTA bus: 137 | ||||||||||
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Parking | 117 spaces ($2.00 daily) | ||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | 6 spaces | ||||||||||
Other information | |||||||||||
Fare zone | 2 | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Rebuilt | 1889 | ||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||
2018 | 483 (weekday average boardings)[1] | ||||||||||
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Wakefield Upper Depot | |||||||||||
U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |||||||||||
Location | 27–29 Tuttle Street, Wakefield, Massachusetts, USA | ||||||||||
Built | 1889 | ||||||||||
Architectural style | Panel Brick | ||||||||||
MPS | Wakefield MRA | ||||||||||
NRHP reference No. | 89000719[2] | ||||||||||
Added to NRHP | July 06, 1989 |
Wakefield is an MBTA Commuter Rail station in Wakefield, Massachusetts served by the Haverhill Line. The station is not accessible.
History[]
Rail service was introduced to Wakefield in 1845, primarily through the efforts of Thomas Spaulding, a local businessman. The surviving 19th-century Wakefield Station was built in 1889 by the Boston and Maine Railroad, and served as Wakefield Upper Depot, a major stop in the town, which in 1893 had six stations with as many as 60 trains per day. The building is architecturally distinctive in the town as an example of Panel Brick architecture, and was originally augmented by a baggage depot which stood to its south. The building was converted to commercial use by 1968, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[3][2][4] The former Lynnfield Centre depot from the Newburyport Railroad line, closed in 1959, is located at the north end of the station. Wakefield Centre station (Center Depot), another NRHP-listed station, is about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) to the east.
References[]
- ^ Central Transportation Planning Staff (2019). "2018 Commuter Rail Counts". Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
- ^ a b "National Register Information System – (#89000719)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ O'Connell, Richard W. (August 18, 1968). "Old railroad depots take on new careers". Boston Globe. p. A-1 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "NRHP nomination and MACRIS inventory record for Wakefield Upper Depot". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2017-12-01.
External links[]
Media related to Wakefield station (MBTA) at Wikimedia Commons
- MBTA Commuter Rail stations in Middlesex County, Massachusetts
- Stations along Boston and Maine Railroad lines
- Railway stations in the United States opened in 1889
- Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
- Buildings and structures in Wakefield, Massachusetts
- National Register of Historic Places in Wakefield, Massachusetts
- Massachusetts railway station stubs
- Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority stubs