Hyde Park station (MBTA)
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Parking | 121 spaces ($4.00 fee) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | 10 spaces | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fare zone | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | c. 1850 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Closed | November 3, 1979[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Rebuilt | October 5, 1987[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Previous names | Kenny's Bridge | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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2018 | 526 (weekday average boardings)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hyde Park station is an
Hyde Park's two platforms serve the outer tracks of the Northeast Corridor, which is three tracks wide through the station; all Amtrak trains to and from Boston pass through the station without stopping. The station is officially located at 1 Pingree Street; however, both platforms are accessible from the River Street bridge via a pair of lengthy ramps. Both platforms are at track level for most of their lengths; however, short high-level platforms provide accessibility on both sides.
History
Boston and Providence Railroad
The Boston and Providence Railroad was built through Hyde Park in 1832–34, but a station was not immediately placed in the area, which was still largely unsettled. Henry Grew moved into the area in 1845 and others followed. Within a few years, "Kenny's Bridge" (at today's River Street) was a stop.[3]: 154 By 1852, a depot building had been built.[4] It was renamed Hyde Park later that decade.[5][6]
A new station building, 80 feet (24 m) long and 20 feet (6.1 m) wide, opened on August 5, 1872.[7] Construction of a third track between Mount Hope and Hyde Park took place in 1881–82, completing triple-tracking of the line between Boston and Readville.[8] Hyde Park served as a short turn turnback point for B&P trains from 1880 to 1899; before and after this period, the trains ran to Readville.[9]
New Haven Railroad
The Boston & Providence Railroad was acquired by the Old Colony Railroad in 1888, which in turn became part of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in 1893. On October 24, 1895, the 4:15 pm train from Providence rear-ended the 5:18 pm local train from Sharon at Hyde Park at approximately 5:30 pm. The cause of the wreck was uncertain but may have been faulty signals.[10] The engine of the Providence-originating train was driven halfway through the trailing passenger car of the Sharon train, killing two people and injuring over twenty more. Among the injured were several members of a wedding party.[10]
The New Haven built a large overhead station building adjacent to River Street around 1913, replacing the earlier depot.
MBTA era
In November 1979, the station was closed for
Crossing the tracks at Hyde Park is not only illegal but extremely dangerous, because Amtrak trains, as well as almost all Franklin/Foxboro Line trains and some express Providence/Stoughton Line trains, pass through the station without stopping. The blind curve to the north makes it difficult to know if a train is coming; moreover, trains may operate in either direction on any track without warning, and without regard to any normally intuitive
Proposed Orange Line extension
Hyde Park is located in a densely populated neighborhood just eight miles from downtown Boston, and has long been reckoned as a strong candidate for rapid transit service rather than conventional low-frequency commuter rail service. As early as 1945, the Coolidge Commission Report recommended that an extension of the Main Line Elevated (now the
The extension is still periodically discussed. The 2004 Program for Mass Transportation listed an extension to Route 128 with intermediate stops at
References
- ^ a b c d e f Belcher, Jonathan. "Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district" (PDF). Boston Street Railway Association. pp. 342, 345. Page numbers are accurate to the April 21, 2018 version.
- ^ Central Transportation Planning Staff (2019). "2018 Commuter Rail Counts". Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
- S2CID 154294514.
- ^ Shields, F.G. (1852). Map of the city and vicinity of Boston, Massachusetts (Map). 1:39,600. J.B. Shields.
- ^ Snow's Pathfinder Railway Guide. New England Railway Publishing Company. February 1858. p. 10.
- ^ The Boston Directory. George Adams. July 1, 1857. p. 480.
- ^ "Hyde Park". The Boston Globe. August 2, 1872. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Report of the Board of Directors of the Boston and Providence Railroad Corporation for the Year Ending September 30, 1881. Boston and Providence Railroad. 1881. p. 8.
- ISBN 9780685412947.
- ^ a b "Crushed in the Coaches: Many Passengers Injured in a Collision at Hyde Park, Mass" (PDF). New York Times. 24 October 1895. Retrieved 17 May 2012.
- ^ "Painter Falls 40 Feet to Death". Boston Globe. December 12, 1913. p. 18 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Improvements for Hyde Park". Boston Globe. March 29, 1912. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
- ISBN 9780938315025.
- ^ Ackerman, Jerry (September 18, 1989). "The latest words from the streets". Boston Globe. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "MBTA rail service is available to Patriots games". Boston Globe. September 12, 1993. p. 39 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Marino still in the Patriots' way". Boston Globe. September 9, 1990. p. 49 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Dwinell, Joe; Remal, Gary J. (September 16, 2011). "Woman killed by train in Hyde Park". Boston Herald. Archived from the original on October 2, 2011.
- ^ Atwater, John (January 30, 2024). "Man struck, killed by train while trying to cross Commuter Rail tracks in Hyde Park, MBTA police say". WCVB 5 ABC. Archived from the original on January 31, 2024.
- ^ Boston Elevated Railway and Boston Department of Public Utilities (1945). "Boston Rapid Transit System & Proposed Extentions [sic] 1945 - Metropolitan Transit Recess Commission Air View". Wardmaps LLC. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
- ^ MBTA planning staff (3 May 1966). "A Comprehensive Development Program for Public Transportation in the Massachusetts Bay Area: 1966". Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. p. V-9. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
- ^ Central Transportation Planning Staff (15 November 1993). "The Transportation Plan for the Boston Region - Volume 2". National Transportation Library. Archived from the original on 9 April 2019. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
- ^ Central Transportation Planning Staff (January 2004) [May 2003]. "Chapter 5C: Service Expansion" (PDF). 2004 Program for Mass Transportation. Boston Metropolitan Planning Organization. p. 5C-83. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 20, 2012.