Wellesley Farms station
Template:Short description Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Parameter validation".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "check for deprecated parameters".
Wellesley Farms station is an MBTA Commuter Rail station in Wellesley, Massachusetts. It serves the Framingham/Worcester Line. It is located in the Wellesley Farms area. The current station building, designed by Henry Hobson Richardson in 1886 and constructed in 1890, has been listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places as Wellesley Farms Railroad Station since 1986.[1]
History
The Boston & Worcester Railroad (B&W), extending outwards from Boston, reached through the West Parish of Needham in mid-1834.[2] Rice's Crossing station opened as a flag stop north of Glen Road soon afterward.[3] In 1839, the line was double tracked through the area.[4]
Wellesley Farms station, which was designed by Henry Hobson Richardson prior to his death in 1886, opened south of Glen Road to replace Rice's Crossing in 1890.[3] Like many B&A stations, it had attractive landscaping; Charles Mulford Robinson called it "unique, and to be remembered" in 1904.[5]
The station was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.[1] In July 2004, the MBTA closed a paved crossing between the crossings in response to concerns about safety. Similar crossings exist at some other MBTA stations, but the agency's policy is to eliminate grade crossings whenever possible when building or renovating stations.[6]
In June 2021, the MBTA issued a $28 million design contract for a project to add a third track from Weston to Framingham, including reconstruction of the three Wellesley stations and West Natick station. The project was expected to cost around $400 million, of which rebuilding Wellesley Farms station would be $34 million, with completion in 2030.[7] In May 2024, the MBTA listed Wellesley Farms as one of seven stations that would require "complex solutions" to be made accessible.[8]
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ a b Cite error: Script error: No such module "Namespace detect".Script error: No such module "Namespace detect".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
External links
Template:Commons category inline
- MBTA - Wellesley Farms
- Google Maps Street View: Croton Street entrance, Glen Road entrance, Hundreds Road entrance
Template:National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts Template:MBTA
- Pages with script errors
- Pages with reference errors
- Articles using Infobox station with markup inside name
- Articles using Infobox station with links or images inside name
- Pages with broken file links
- MBTA Commuter Rail stations in Norfolk County, Massachusetts
- Railway stations in the United States opened in 1890
- Former Boston and Albany Railroad stations
- Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
- Wellesley, Massachusetts
- National Register of Historic Places in Norfolk County, Massachusetts