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Wellesley Hills station

November 27, 2023

Wellesley Hills station is an MBTA Commuter Rail station in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States. It serves the Framingham/Worcester Line. It is located off Washington Street (MA-16) in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Wellesley Hills has two low platforms serving the line's two tracks; it is not accessible. Designed in 1885 and completed in 1886, the station was the last of nine stations that H.H. Richardson designed for the Boston and Albany Railroad. It replaced a previous station, built in 1834 with the completion of the Boston and Worcester Railroad.

Wellesley Hills
Wellesley Hills station platforms; station building is at right
General information
Location339 Washington Street
Wellesley, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°18′37″N 71°16′37″W / 42.3102°N 71.2770°W / 42.3102; -71.2770
Line(s)Worcester Line
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Construction
Parking51 spaces ($4.50 fee)
Other information
Fare zone3
History
Opened1834
RebuiltMarch 13, 1886
Passengers
2018336 (weekday average boardings)[1]
Services
Former services
Preceding station New York Central Railroad Following station
Wellesley
toward Albany
 Boston and Albany Railroad
Main Line
 Wellesley Farms
toward Boston
Location

History edit

 
Wellesley Hills station, still with a Grantville sign, around 1884

The Boston & Worcester Railroad (B&W), extending outwards from Boston, reached through the West Parish of Needham in mid-1834.[2] North Needham station was the terminus for a few months while construction continued towards Worcester.[3] In 1839, the line was double tracked through the area.[4]

The station was later renamed Grantvile, then briefly Nehoiden, and finally Wellesley Hills in 1881 when the West Parish was fully separated from Needham as the town of Wellesley.[3]

Wellesley Hills station was designed by Henry Hobson Richardson in 1885 for the Boston & Albany Railroad,[5] and was the last in a series of stations he designed, all featuring rough-cut light colored stone with dark stone trim around windows and doors, slate roofs, and varying amounts of decorative dark stone carvings.[5] As a B&A station, it originally served both commuter trains in the Boston Metropolitan Area and long distance trains toward Albany, New York.

By 1962, the disused station building was converted to a dry cleaning shop, with large plate glass windows added to the façade.[6] The previous station building, constructed in 1855, has been moved across the road and converted to a private residence.[7]

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 Hills station would be $43–45 million, with completion in 2030.[8]

References edit

  1. ^ Central Transportation Planning Staff (2019). "2018 Commuter Rail Counts". Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
  2. ^ Humphrey, Thomas J. & Clark, Norton D. (1985). Boston's Commuter Rail: The First 150 Years. Boston Street Railway Association. pp. 21–25. ISBN 9780685412947.
  3. ^ a b Fiske, Joseph E.; Ellen W. Fiske (1917). History of the Town of Wellesley, Massachusetts. Boston, Chicago: The Pilgrim Press. p. 26. OCLC 6541911 – via Internet Archive.
  4. ^ Karr, Ronald Dale (1995). The Rail Lines of Southern New England. Branch Line Press. pp. 278–283. ISBN 0942147022.
  5. ^ a b Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl, H.H. Richardson: Complete Architectural Works, MIT Press, Cambridge MA 1984
  6. ^ "Few Trains, But Stations Still Busy". Boston Globe. February 16, 1962. p. 24 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ Harwood, Herbert H. (Spring 1992). "History Where You Don't Expect It: Some Surprising Survivors". Railroad History (166): 103–125. JSTOR 43523701.
  8. ^ Kelly, Maribel (June 21, 2021). "MBTA Contract No. C72PS01: Worcester Line Track and Stations Accessibility Improvements (P0261) Design and Engineering Services" (PDF). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.

External links edit

  Media related to Wellesley Hills station at Wikimedia Commons

  • MBTA - Wellesley Hills
  • Cliff Road entrance from Google Maps Street View
  • Station from Google Maps Street View

November 27, 2023
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