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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]
Four midday Foxboro round trips – but no peak Foxboro service – ultimately resumed on May 23, 2022. [49] [50] A new one-year Foxboro pilot began on September 12, 2022, with 10 + 1 ⁄ 2 Boston–Foxboro round trips on weekdays. [51] [52] The service was made permanent effective October 2, 2023, with the service renamed as the Franklin ...
It serves the Franklin/Foxboro Line, and is located just off exit 28 of Interstate 95/Route 128. It serves mostly as a park-and-ride location. The station consists of two platforms (each a long low asphalt platform with a short high-level platform for accessibility) serving the Franklin/Foxboro Line's two tracks. Previous stations named Dedham ...
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.
Franklin/Foxboro Line: South Station Forge Park/495 Foxboro: 18 [a] (1 closed) 30.3 miles (48.8 km) – Forge Park/495 22.6 miles (36.4 km) – Foxboro 8,771 Needham Line: South Station Needham Heights: 12 13.7 miles (22.0 km) 4,881 Framingham/Worcester Line: South Station Worcester: 18 44.2 miles (71.1 km) 10,606 Fitchburg Line: North Station ...
[16] [22] In 2016, the Town of Bourne voted to join the MBTA district, bringing the number of MBTA communities to 176. [23] Prior to July 1, 2000, the MBTA was reimbursed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for all costs above revenue collected (net cost of service).
Many of these facilities are former streetcar carhouses that were gradually converted to trackless trolley and bus use, although some like Southampton (built 2004) are of recent construction. Of the former streetcar carhouses, only Arborway and Watertown were Green Line yards during part of the MBTA era. Everett was an Orange Line yard until 1975.
The MBTA gradually increased service on the Franklin Line. In 1977, the agency began an $11 million (equivalent to $43 million in 2023) track and station reconstruction project on the line, partially funded by the Urban Mass Transportation Administration , which included improvements to the platforms at Norwood Central.