North Scituate station
North Scituate | |||||||||||||
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Location | 777 Country Way Scituate, Massachusetts | ||||||||||||
Coordinates | 42°13′10.92″N 70°47′15.72″W / 42.2197000°N 70.7877000°W | ||||||||||||
Line(s) | South Shore Railroad | ||||||||||||
Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||||
Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||||
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Parking | 281 spaces ($4.00 fee) 12 accessible spaces | ||||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||
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Fare zone | 5 | ||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||
Opened | October 31, 2007 | ||||||||||||
Closed | June 30, 1959 | ||||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||||
2018 | 336 (weekday average boardings)[1] | ||||||||||||
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North Scituate station is an MBTA Commuter Rail station in Scituate, Massachusetts. It serves the Greenbush Line. The station, located at 777 Country Way in North Scituate village, is the primary station for Scituate, while nearby Greenbush station primarily serves as a park-and-ride for adjacent communities. Like the other stations on the Greenbush Line, North Scituate consists of a single full-length high-level platform which provides accessible boarding to the line's single track.
History
The modern
After financial troubles in the 1870s, the Duxbury and Cohasset was joined with the South Shore under the fold of the
Ridership on the Greenbush Line diminished in the 1930s due to increased competition from automobiles. The line enjoyed a brief uptick in traffic in
Calls for the former Old Colony lines to be reactivated began in the 1980s; the
References
- ^ Central Transportation Planning Staff (2019). "2018 Commuter Rail Counts". Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
- ISBN 0942147022.
- ^ United States Geological Survey (1941). "Cohasset, MA Quadrangle". USGS 7.5 Minute Series. University of New Hampshire. Retrieved 2 January 2013.
- ^ United States Geological Survey (1940). "Scituate, MA Quadrangle". USGS 7.5 Minute Series. University of New Hampshire. Retrieved 2 January 2013.
- ^ Sixteenth Annual Report of the Old Colony Railroad Co. to the Stockholders. Old Colony Railroad Company. November 1879. p. 8.
- ^ Thomas J. Humphrey. "History of the Greenbush Rail Line". WATD-FM. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-06.
- ISBN 9780942147087.
- ^ "Few Trains, But Stations Still Busy". Boston Globe. February 16, 1962. p. 24 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Belcher, Jonathan. "Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district" (PDF). Boston Street Railway Association.
External links
Media related to North Scituate station at Wikimedia Commons