Waban (MBTA station)

WABAN

Waban station at night

Location

Beacon Street at Waban Square, Newton

Coordinates

42°19′33″N 71°13′50″W / 42.32583°N 71.23056°WCoordinates: 42°19′33″N 71°13′50″W / 42.32583°N 71.23056°W

Owned by

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

Line(s)

Green Line "D" branch

Platforms

2 side platforms

Tracks

Construction

Parking

74 spaces ($6.00 fee)

Bicycle facilities

12 spaces

History

Opened

July 4, 1959

Traffic

Passengers (2011 daily)

545^[1]

Services

Preceding station		MBTA		Following station
Woodland toward Riverside		Green Line "D" Branch		Eliot toward Park Street or North Station

This article is about the transit station. For other meanings of "Waban", see Waban (disambiguation).

Waban is a surface-level light rail station on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Green Line "D" Branch, located just south of Beacon Street at Waban Square in the Waban section of Newton, Massachusetts. The station is located below grade; access to both platforms is via Wyman Street on the outbound side of the tracks or a stairway from Beacon Street. Waban is not handicapped accessible, as the platforms have not been raised to interface with low-floor trams.

Station layout

G Street/ Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Outbound	← "D" Branch toward Riverside (Woodland)
	Inbound	→ "D" Branch toward Government Center (Eliot) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right

History

Waban formerly boasted an H.H. Richardson-designed train station, like those still standing in Newton Highlands and Newton Center. The original station was completed in August 1886 as part of the Boston and Albany Railroad and was one of the last stations designed by Richardson before his death in April 1886.

Waban closed along with the rest of the Highland Branch commuter rail line in 1958 and reopened on July 4, 1959 as part of the light rail D Branch. The H.H. Richardson station was demolished in order to build a 74-space parking lot.

The station has two MBTA ticket machines for reloading stored-value CharlieCards and buying CharlieTickets, as well one fare validation machine. All three are enclosed in a heated passenger shed near the center of the inbound platform.

References

↑ "Ridership and Service Statistics" (PDF) (14 ed.). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 2014. Retrieved 26 July 2014.

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