Somerville station (Fitchburg Railroad)

Somerville station was a train station on the Fitchburg Railroad in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Somerville station
Somerville station on an 1884 map
Coordinates42°22′54.5″N 71°6′25.7″W
Line(s)Fitchburg Railroad
History
ClosedJuly 9, 1938

A predecessor station was briefly in service 0.2 miles (0.32 km) west at Kent Street which opened in 1842.[1][2]:81

By 1851 the station was open at Park Street, near the junction of the Harvard Branch Railroad.[3][4] The station building was located on the north side of the tracks, just west of Park Street.[5][6]

Service to Somerville and Union Square stations ended on July 9, 1938, in concert with the end of passenger service on the Watertown Branch.[7][8][9] The neighborhood is now served by the MBTA Commuter Rail Fitchburg Line at Porter Station 0.75 miles (1.21 km) northwest.

References
  1. PRESERVATION STAFF REPORT for Determination of Preferably Preserved (PDF) (Report). Somerville Historic Preservation Commission. September 25, 2018. p. 1.
  2. Samuels, Edward Augustus; Kimball, Henry Hastings (1897). Somerville, past and present : an illustrated historical souvenir commemorative of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the establishment of the city government of Somerville, Massachusetts – via Internet Archive.
  3. Dinsmore, Curran (1851). American Railway Guide, p. 94, at Google Books
  4. H.F. Walling (1854). "Map of the City of Cambridge" – via Ward Maps.
  5. Postcard: Boston & Maine Railroad Somerville, Massachusetts Station – via Nashua City Station
  6. Boston & Maine Railroad Historical Society, Somerville, Mass. station – via Flickr
  7. Central Transportation Planning Staff (January 2004). "Chapter 5C: Service Expansion" (PDF). 2004 Program for Mass Transportation. Boston Metropolitan Planning Organization. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 February 2008. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
  8. Humphrey, Thomas J.; Clark, Norton D. (1986). Boston's Commuter Rail: Second Section. Boston Street Railway Association. ISBN 9780938315025.
  9. "At the State House". Boston Globe. April 12, 1938. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
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