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Wickford Junction station is a commuter rail station located in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, United States. It is the southern terminus of the MBTA Commuter Rail Providence/Stoughton Line and serves as a park and ride location for commuters to Providence and Boston .
The Providence/Stoughton Line is an MBTA Commuter Rail service in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, primarily serving the southwestern suburbs of Boston.Most service runs entirely on the Northeast Corridor between South Station in Boston and Providence station or Wickford Junction station in Rhode Island, while the Stoughton Branch splits at Canton Junction and terminates at Stoughton.
South Station Middleborough/ Lakeville: 10 35.6 miles (57.3 km) 5,261 Fairmount Line: South Station Readville: 9 9.2 miles (14.8 km) 2,843 Providence/Stoughton Line: South Station Wickford Junction Stoughton: 18 62.9 miles (101.2 km) – Wickford Junction 18.9 miles (30.4 km) – Stoughton 17,648 Franklin/Foxboro Line: South Station Forge Park ...
South Station is the busiest MBTA Commuter Rail station and the terminal for the eight southside lines. North Station is the second-busiest station and the terminal for the four northside lines. Route 128 station, on the busy Northeast Corridor, is used by Providence/Stoughton Line trains (shown) as well as Amtrak trains.
The line was extended 10 miles past T.F. Green with the opening of Wickford Junction station in April 2012. [1] Normal service to T.F. Green Airport is weekday-only, with no regular weekend trains. Beginning on September 16, 2012, special Sunday trains serving New England Patriots games were extended from Providence to T.F. Green Airport.
It was first chartered in 1862 as the Wickford Branch Railroad, and intended to connect Wickford Junction station to downtown Wickford, Rhode Island, by rail, and Wickford to Newport, Rhode Island, by steamboat. The company changed its name to the Wickford Railroad in 1864, before adopting its final name in 1870. Construction was completed in ...
A 1910 map showing nearly the maximum extent of Rhode Island's railroads. As of February 2022, a total of five railroads operate in the U.S. state of Rhode Island.Freight services are largely operated by the Providence and Worcester Railroad, which interchanges with the state's only other freight railroad, the Seaview Transportation Company, a switching and terminal railroad serving the Port ...
Wood River Junction (in Richmond) Hope Valley (in Hopkinton) remained independent Westerly Granite Quarry Proprietor's Railroad: Westerly: granite quarries: Southern New England Railway: Massachusetts state line in Woonsocket: Providence: South Providence Branch, around the west side of Providence never finished, built by the Grand Trunk Railway