Wakefield station (MBTA)

Wakefield
Wakefield
	Wakefield Upper Depot in 2010
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
Construction
Parking	117 spaces ($2.00 daily)
Bicycle facilities	6 spaces
Other information
Fare zone	2
History
Rebuilt	1889
Passengers
2018	483 (weekday average boardings)
Services
	Wakefield Upper Depot
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	27–29 Tuttle Street,; Wakefield, Massachusetts, USA
Built	1889
Architectural style	Panel Brick
MPS	Wakefield MRA
NRHP reference No.	89000719
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[]

The current platform that serves MBTA Commuters in Wakefield, next to the historic depot

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.