South Attleboro (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)

South Attleboro is the southernmost station in Massachusetts on the Providence/Stoughton Line of the MBTA Commuter Rail, and was the southernmost station on weekends, until June 29, 2006, when Rhode Island began funding weekend service to Providence. The station is located at the Newport Avenue overpass in the community of South Attleboro, part of Attleboro.

The station opened on June 20, 1990, before which the southernmost station in Massachusetts was Attleboro. There was no station at that spot before then; in fact, the area where the station is located in was once part of a Holiday Inn that was shut down to make way for the station. The former Holiday Inn is now a warehouse.

[edit] References

• Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district (PDF)