Rowley station (MBTA)

ROWLEY
The platform at Rowley station in 2010
Location 70 Railroad Avenue
Rowley, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°43′37″N 70°51′33″W / 42.7269°N 70.8591°W / 42.7269; -70.8591Coordinates: 42°43′37″N 70°51′33″W / 42.7269°N 70.8591°W / 42.7269; -70.8591
Owned by Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)
Line(s)
  Newburyport/Rockport Line
Platforms 1 side platform
Tracks 1
Construction
Parking Yes
Disabled access Yes
Other information
Fare zone 7
History
Opened October 26, 1998
Services
Preceding station   MBTA   Following station
Newburyport/​Rockport Line
Terminus

Rowley is an MBTA Commuter Rail station in Rowley, Massachusetts. It is the penultimate station on the Newburyport branch of the Newburyport/Rockport Line.

History

A previous station in Rowley, serving trains from the Boston and Maine Railroad (B&M)'s Eastern Route (the precursor to the Newburyport portion of the Newburyport/Rockport Line), was closed in April 1967, when the B&M received permission from the Interstate Commerce Commission to discontinue all service on the line (which had been cut back from Portsmouth to Newburyport in January 1965); at that point, service beyond Ipswich consisted of only one daily round trip to North Station.[1] Both Rowley and Newburyport were, at the time, outside the MBTA's service district; the town of Newburyport signed a subsidy agreement with the MBTA, allowing it to continue to receive service, but Rowley did not, and its station closed.[1] The current station opened on October 26, 1998, as part of the restoration of service on the Newburyport/Rockport Line between Ipswich and Newburyport.[2] As with Newburyport, the new station was built with a full-length high-level platform, which allows level boarding for all cars of even the longest MBTA trains.

References

  1. 1 2 Belcher, Jonathan (25 June 2016). "Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district" (PDF). NETransit. Retrieved 2 July 2016.
  2. ↑ Dodge, John (October 1998). "The railroad returns to Newburyport". Trains. 57 (10): 48.

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