Lexington Depot

LEXINGTON

Lexington Depot in 2010

Owned by

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

Line(s)

Lexington Branch

Platforms

Tracks

Other information

Fare zone

History

Opened

1846

Closed

10 January 1977^[1]

Services

Preceding station		MBTA		Following station
North Lexington toward Bedford		Lexington Branch		Munroe toward North Station

Lexington Depot, or Lexington station, is a former train station in Lexington, Massachusetts on the Lexington Branch.

History

The trainshed and former platform in 1984, before the Minuteman Bikeway was built on the former trackbed

It opened in 1846 as part of the Lexington and West Cambridge Railroad, and later became part of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Commuter Rail system. In January 1977, following a major snowstorm which temporarily shut down the Lexington Branch, the MBTA announced that service on the branch would not be restored;^[2] in the 1980s, the MBTA planned to extend the Red Line to Route 128 along the former path of the Lexington Branch as part of the Northwest Extension, including service to Lexington station, but fierce opposition from the residents of Arlington scuttled this plan, and the Northwest Extension was cut short to Alewife.

The building now serves as the headquarters of the Lexington Historical Society.^[2] The Minuteman Bikeway runs through the former trainshed adjacent to the former station platforms. It is one of only two station buildings to remain standing along the Lexington Branch; the other is the branch's former terminus at Bedford Depot.

References

↑ Belcher, Jonathan (22 March 2014). "Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district" (PDF). NETransit. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
1 2 About the Lexington Branch

External links

Media related to Lexington Depot at Wikimedia Commons
Historic American Engineering Record documentation

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

Subway lines
(List of stations)

Heavy rail	Blue Orange Red
Light rail	Green "B" Branch "C" Branch "D" Branch "E" Branch Ashmont–Mattapan
Former lines	Arborway Line Atlantic Avenue Elevated Causeway Street Elevated Charlestown Elevated Green Line "A" Branch Washington Street Elevated

Commuter
Rail lines
(List of stations)

North Station lines	Fitchburg Haverhill (Wildcat Branch) Lowell Newburyport/Rockport
South Station lines	Fairmount Framingham/Worcester Franklin Greenbush Needham Old Colony (Kingston/Plymouth Middleborough/Lakeville CapeFLYER) Providence/Stoughton
Former lines	Central Mass Branch Dedham Branch Lexington Branch Millis Branch Woburn Branch

Bus routes
(List of routes)

Other services

Component parts
of system lines

Capital projects

Under construction	Blue Hill Avenue station Forest Hills modifications Green Line Extension Haverhill Line upgrades Silver Line Gateway / Chelsea station
In planning / proposed	Buzzards Bay extension Foxboro service Hyde Square extension Hynes Convention Center renovation Kingston R.I. extension Nashua extension North–South Rail Link Quincy Center garage replacement Roslindale Village extension Route 16 extension South Coast Rail South Salem station Wollaston renovation Framingham/Worcester Line upgrades
Formerly proposed	Arborway Line restoration Indigo Line (Fairmount Grand Junction Track 61) Lexington extension Plaistow extension Reading extension Red Line—Blue Line Connector Milford/Hopedale extension Lynn extension Urban Ring Project

History

Predecessor companies	Boston Elevated Railway Streetcar lines Boston and Maine Railroad Conrail New York Central Railroad New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Penn Central Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Middlesex and Boston Street Railway Newton and Boston Street Railway
Accidents and incidents	1990 Back Bay 2008 Waban/Woodland

Other

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