Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 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 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.
If a railroad was given ICC permission to discontinue a service, the MBTA would subsidize operation within its funding district (within about 15–25 miles [24–40 km] of Boston), while municipalities outside the district could contract with the MBTA to fund continued service.
[31] [32] [33] A new one-year Foxboro pilot began on September 12, 2022; the service was made permanent effective October 2, 2023. [34] [35] In 2019, the MBTA listed Walpole as a "Tier I" accessibility priority. [36] In 2024, the MBTA tested a temporary freestanding accessible platform design at Beverly Depot.
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 .
MBTA subway: Red Line Silver Line MBTA Bus Intercity bus service at South Station Bus Terminal: Back Bay: Amtrak: Acela, Lake Shore Limited MBTA Commuter Rail: Framingham/Worcester Line, Franklin/Foxboro Line, Needham Line, Providence/Stoughton Line MBTA subway: Orange Line MBTA Bus Westwood: Route 128: Amtrak: Acela MBTA Commuter Rail ...
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.