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Roslindale Village station

MBTA Commuter Rail station

42°17′15″N 71°07′49″W / 42.2874°N 71.1304°W / 42.2874; -71.1304Line(s)Needham Branch (West Roxbury Branch)Platforms1 side platformTracks1Connections

MBTA bus: 14, 30, 34, 34E, 35, 36, 37, 40, 50, 51ConstructionParking144 spaces ($4.00 fee)AccessibleYesOther informationFare zone1HistoryOpenedJuly 14, 1849Passengers2018479 (weekday average boardings)^[1] Services

Preceding station	MBTA			Following station
Bellevue toward Needham Heights		Needham Line		Forest Hills toward South Station

Former services

Preceding station	MBTA		Following station
Bellevue toward Millis		Millis Branch Closed 1967	Back Bay toward South Station
Preceding station	New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad		Following station
Bellevue toward Woonsocket		Charles River Line	Boston Back Bay toward Boston

Location

Roslindale Village station is an MBTA Commuter Rail station on the Needham Line, located in the Roslindale Square business district of the Roslindale neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts. The station has a single side platform serving the line's single track, with a mini-high platform for accessibility.

Roslindale Square is an important bus transfer location; ten MBTA bus routes (14, 30, 34, 34E, 35, 36, 37, 40, 50, and 51) run on Washington Street between Forest Hills and Roslindale, then fan out to the south and west.^[2]

History

The Boston and Providence Railroad (B&P) opened its West Roxbury Branch from Forest Hills to Dedham via West Roxbury on July 14, 1849.^[3]^[4]^: 154 Stations at South Street (later Roslindale), Central (Bellevue), and West Roxbury all opened with the branch.^[5] A new brick station building was constructed in 1876.^[6]

A grade crossing elimination project in the late 1890s raised the tracks above grade. A rail bridge was built over Roberts Street, while South Street was cut at the tracks, with only a pedestrian underpass. The 1898-built bridge over Roberts Street was replaced with a modern bridge in June 2021.^[7] The new bridge was designed to allow construction of a parallel span should a second track be later added.^[8]

References

^ Central Transportation Planning Staff (2019). "2018 Commuter Rail Counts". Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
^ "2023–24 System Map". Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. December 17, 2023.
^ "Dedham Branch Railroad". Boston Evening Transcript. July 16, 1849. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Kennedy, Charles J. (Summer 1962). "Commuter Services in the Boston Area, 1835-1860". The Business History Review. 36 (2): 153–170. doi:10.2307/3111453. JSTOR 3111453. S2CID 154294514.
^ Humphrey, Thomas J.; Clark, Norton D. (1985). Boston's Commuter Rail: The First 150 Years. Boston Street Railway Association. pp. 21–24. ISBN 9780685412947.
^ Report of the Board of Directors of the Boston and Providence Railroad Corporation for the Year Ending September 30, 1876. Boston and Providence Railroad. 1876. p. 8.
^ "Robert Street Bridge Replacement". Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. Archived from the original on May 26, 2021.
^ "Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority FY23-27 Capital Investment Plan (CIP): Proposed" (PDF). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. March 2022. p. 37.