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Four midday Foxboro round trips – but no peak Foxboro service – resumed on May 23, 2022. The line was renamed the Franklin/Foxboro Line at that time. [42] [43] Some Franklin/Foxboro Line trains began stopping at Forest Hills on September 3, 2022, to provide alternate service during a closure of the Orange Line. [44]
The MBTA also began replacing the aging Rail Diesel Cars and other equipment; 18 EMD F40PH diesel locomotives and 60 passenger cars arrived between 1978 and 1980. [13] A train of new equipment on the recently upgraded Franklin Line in 1980. Several major disruptions occurred in the mid-1980s.
Special MBTA trains are run over the Franklin/Foxboro Line and the Providence/Stoughton Line to Foxborough station for New England Patriots home games and other events at Gillette Stadium. The CapeFLYER intercity service, operated on summer weekends, uses MBTA equipment and operates over the Middleborough/Lakeville Line.
Forge Park/495 station is a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) commuter rail station served by the Franklin/Foxboro Line.It is located off Route 140 near Interstate 495 in Franklin, Massachusetts, United States.
The service was made permanent effective October 2, 2023, with the service renamed as the Franklin/Foxboro Line. Foxboro station averaged 112–133 daily boardings by that time. The MBTA and the Kraft Group indicated they would attempt to find new funding to construct a full-length high-level platform at Foxboro.
The following stations had MBTA-subsidized service at one point, but are no longer served by the MBTA. Most were closed between 1967 and 1981, as four limited-service lines and a number of low-ridership stations were dropped.
The station reopened in October 1987 and has served Providence/Stoughton and Franklin line trains since. [1] When Boston–Foxboro service (for special events at Foxboro Stadium) moved to the Providence/Stoughton Line in 1989, Hyde Park was one of the intermediate stops. [14] However, it was dropped from the special events service in the early ...
Endicott station is an MBTA Commuter Rail station in Dedham, Massachusetts, served by the Franklin/Foxboro Line. It is located off Grant Avenue at Elmwood Avenue. The station is not accessible, though the addition of accessible platforms is planned.