Auburndale
Auburndale is a dump of a station on the Framingham/Worcester Line located along the right-of-way of the Mass Pike (I-90) that was built along the Boston and Albany Railroad Line between 1962 and 1964 reducing the railroad to two tracks and rebuilding this station.
Today the station is a complete shack with a single, very long island platform along the southern track between the railroad line and the Mass Pike. This platform has a little bit of a grassy median between the platform and turnpike, with slightly more of a buffer than West Newtown and Newtonville.
This platform is accessible by a single staircases down from bridges that cross the railroad line and the Mass Pike at either end of the extremely long platform. At the western end of the platform is the bridge for Woodland Road, at the eastern end of the Richard Allen Likely Bridge that is the crossing of Auburn Street, in honor of Corporal Richard Allen Likely, a local resident who died at age 20 in the Vietnam War.
In the middle of the platform, by the boarding area · but not near the stations two entrances · is a very simple wooden shelter structure that can accommodate about two cars with some benches built into the concrete. There are some normal station signs, alongwith Auburndale stenciled in black in multiple places on this station canopy. In this entrance area is a small wooden level crossing to the opposite track, allowing these to open one set of door on this track. Normally though Outbound trains wrong rail to stop at the station to allow more than one door to be opened.
The complicated boarding procedures severely reduces service to the station · there isn’t the usual hourly off-peak frequency of the rest of the line, with the MBTA planning to build a new ADA accessible high-level platform station, currently undergoing final design.
Along Auburn Street (that curves and runs parallel to the station) beginning at the start of the Woodland Road Bridge is a small parking lot with a single row 0f 35 angled parking spaces between the tracks that are the station’s park & ride lot.
Photos 1-51 taken on June 19, 2024;
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Last Updated: October 30, 2024
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