Foxboro (MBTA station)

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Providence/Stoughton Line Fairmount Line
		South Station Amtrak


	Middleborough/Lakeville & Plymouth/Kingston Lines




		Back Bay Amtrak


	Framingham/Worcester Line


		Uphams Corner

		Ruggles



		Morton St
	Needham Line


		Fairmount

		Hyde Park

		Readville
	Franklin Line



		Route 128 Amtrak

		Canton Junction


		Canton Center

		Stoughton

		Sharon
		Foxboro (special events)


		Mansfield

		Attleboro

		South Attleboro

		Providence Amtrak

		T. F. Green Airport (planned 2009)

		Wickford Junction (planned)

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Foxboro station on the MBTA Commuter Rail system is only used for special events, such as New England Patriots football games, at nearby Gillette Stadium. It lies on the otherwise unused line between Mansfield and Framingham, owned by CSX as their Framingham Subdivision. The line was part of the Boston, Clinton, Fitchburg and New Bedford Railroad, Old Colony Railroad, New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and finally Conrail until 1998, when it passed to CSX.

Nonstop trains to the station come from Boston's South Station via the Franklin Line to Walpole, and from Providence via the Attleboro/Stoughton Line to Mansfield. The service started with the opening of Foxboro Stadium in August 1971; Providence service ended soon but was brought back in 1994.