Tracks 2 Connection MBTA Bus Fare zone 1A | Parking 30 Spaces Platforms in use 2 | |
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Location 481 High Street
Medford, MA 02155-6735 Connections MBTA Bus: 80, 94, 95, 326 Passengers (2013) 819 (weekday inbound average) Address Medford, MA 02155, United States Line(s) Lowell Line Haverhill Line Similar Wedgemere, Anderson Regional Transport, Winchester Center, Mishawum, North Billerica | ||
West Medford is a commuter rail station on the MBTA Commuter Rail Lowell Line, located at West Medford Square in Medford, Massachusetts. West Medford station is not handicapped accessible.
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History
When the original Boston and Lowell Railroad was laid out in the 1830s, West Medford was mostly farmland. The route of the new railroad (one of the oldest railroads in North America) was built on land acquired from Peter Chardon Brooks, who sold a strip for the right-of-way plus a parcel for the station on High Street. The initial stop was called "Medford Gates"; it gave birth to West Medford Square and, eventually, the surrounding residential neighborhoods.
The depot structure built in 1880 was destroyed by a fire in 1950. The finial from the roof of the station now resides today at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.
Bus connections
Three MBTA Bus routes - two local routes and one express - stop directly on High Street (MA-60) at West Medford station:
One additional route stops on Boston Avenue two blocks to the southwest: