West Concord Depot
WEST CONCORD | |||||||||||
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Location |
Commonwealth Avenue & Main Street West Concord, MA 01742 | ||||||||||
Owned by |
Depot: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority[1] Parking: Town of Concord | ||||||||||
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Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
Construction | |||||||||||
Parking |
146 spaces, $4.00 fee, 3 accessible spaces | ||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | 10 spaces | ||||||||||
Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||
Other information | |||||||||||
Fare zone | 5 | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | 1894 | ||||||||||
Previous names |
Union Station Concord Junction | ||||||||||
Traffic | |||||||||||
Passengers (2009) | 518 weekday avg.[2] 0.4% | ||||||||||
Services | |||||||||||
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Union Station | |||||||||||
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Location |
20 Commonwealth Avenue West Concord, Massachusetts | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 42°27′22.94″N 71°23′32.54″W / 42.4563722°N 71.3923722°WCoordinates: 42°27′22.94″N 71°23′32.54″W / 42.4563722°N 71.3923722°W | ||||||||||
Area | less than one acre | ||||||||||
Built | 1894 | ||||||||||
Architectural style | Queen Anne style | ||||||||||
NRHP Reference # | 89000143[3] | ||||||||||
Added to NRHP | March 2, 1989 |
West Concord Depot is a rail station on the MBTA Commuter Rail system in West Concord, Massachusetts. The depot, which opened in 1894, is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
Location
West Concord Depot is located at 20 Commonwealth Avenue near the intersection of Main Street. Service to the station is provided by the Fitchburg Line from Boston to Fitchburg, Massachusetts both inbound and outbound.
History
The depot opened in 1894 as Union Station at the junction of the Fitchburg Railroad and Old Colony Railroad, in a section of Concord that was initially called Concord Junction.[4] Eventually, the name of the station stop, and the section of town, was renamed West Concord. Both railroads were eventually merged into other railroad companies to create larger networks. The Fitchburg Railroad became part of the Boston and Maine Railroad in 1900 while the Old Colony Railroad was absorbed into the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. Regular passenger service on the New Haven Railroad portion of the line ceased in 1930s.
The depot is now owned by the MBTA,[1] which purchased the passenger operations of the Boston & Maine Railroad in 1976.[5] The building houses an MBTA office, a restaurant, and a waiting room for morning rail passengers.[4]
West Concord Depot is a Queen Anne Style building which was entered on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[3][4][6] As of 2007, local residents and businesses along with the Town of Concord and the MBTA were working to restore the station exterior after years of decay. The original railroad diamond is located in the bricks on the former right-of-way of the New Haven Railroad's Lowell Secondary Line between Framingham and Lowell, Massachusetts. This right-of-way is scheduled to become the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail.
The building has housed a restaurant since the mid-1970s (or earlier). Currently, the building holds the Club Car Cafe restaurant.[1]
Nearby destinations
See also
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Concord, Massachusetts
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, Massachusetts
References
- 1 2 3 "Town of Concord Update DRAFT June 21, 2007" (PDF). 2008 Community Preservation Plan. Town of Concord. p. 69. Retrieved 2007-10-04.
- ↑ "Ridership and Service Statistics" (PDF). MBTA. 2010. Retrieved 2011-07-31. External link in
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(help) - 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- 1 2 3 Kehoe, Dorrie (2007). "Renewal of West Concord Depot". The Concord Magazine. Retrieved 2007-10-04.
- ↑ "MBTA > About the MBTA > Transit Projects". MBTA. Retrieved 2007-10-04.
- ↑ "National Register of Historic Places - MASSACHUSETTS (MA), Middlesex County". nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com. Retrieved 2007-10-04.
- MBTA > Commuter Rail > West Concord. MBTA. Retrieved on 2007-10-04.
External links
Media related to West Concord Depot at Wikimedia Commons
- MBTA - West Concord
- Concord Junction Marker. Photo by Lisa McCauley January 7, 2007 at The NERAIL North American Railroad Photo Archive.
- Station from Commonwealth Avenue from Google Maps Street View
- Station House from Google Maps Street View