Melrose Highlands (MBTA station)

MELROSE HIGHLANDS
An inbound train at Melrose Highlands in 2012
Location	497 Franklin Street Melrose, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°28′10″N 71°04′06″W / 42.4695°N 71.0684°W / 42.4695; -71.0684Coordinates: 42°28′10″N 71°04′06″W / 42.4695°N 71.0684°W / 42.4695; -71.0684
Owned by	City of Melrose
Line(s)	Haverhill Line
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	MBTA Bus: 131
Construction
Parking	77 spaces ($2.00 fee) 2 accessible spaces
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	1
Traffic
Passengers (2013)	299 (weekday inbound average)[1]
Services
Preceding station   MBTA   Following station Melrose/Cedar Park toward North Station Haverhill Line Greenwood toward Haverhill

Melrose Highlands is a regional rail station on the MBTA Commuter Rail Haverhill/Reading Line, located north of Franklin Street in the Melrose Highlands business district of Melrose, Massachusetts. It is the most used station in the city, and was originally planned to be a station on the cancelled extension of the Orange Line to Reading. The station is fully handicapped accessible with mini-high platforms on the north end of each platform.^[1]

Bus connections

The station is served directly by one MBTA Bus route which runs on Franklin Street:

• 131 Melrose Highlands - Malden Station via East Side Melrose & Oak Grove Station

Three additional routes - the 106, 136, and 137 - run 2,000 feet (610 m) to the east on Main Street..

References

External links

• MBTA - Melrose Highlands
• Media related to Melrose Highlands (MBTA station) at Wikimedia Commons
• Station from Franklin Street from Google Maps Street View