Grafton

  Worcester

Westborough  

 

Grafton is a modern station opened on the Framingham/Worcester Line as an infill station on February 23, 2000. The station is in an open cut with Pine Street crossing over the eastern ends of the two low-level side platforms for the two-track line. These platforms then each have a low-level canopy structure, before they reach the pedestrian bridge that provides the only entrance to the Inbound platform, and ramp access to the Outbound platform.

This pedestrian bridge has a simple grey metal structure with silver mesh walls. The bridge begins at its upper level on the top of the embankment, along the station’s entrance driveway (that includes a sidewalk) from Pine Street. The bridge first reaches a covered staircase that leads down to the low-level Outbound platform. The bridge continues to the Inbound platform where a covered staircase leads directly down to the Inbound platform below, along with a ramp that extends westward, not covered and leads directly to the ADA mini-high platform at this platform’s western end. The mini-high platform has another canopy structure, including covering a bench and just a ramp leads off it down to the low-level platform below.

The Outbound platform is along the station’s 386 space parking lot. This platform is slightly longer than the Inbound platform, with its canopied mini-high platform at its western end farther west than the Inbound platform’s mini-high platform. This platform contains two staircases up to both ADA and regular parking spaces (plus a small passenger pick-up and drop-off area, at the start of the parking lot) west of the footbridge. One of these staircases is directly up from the mini-high platform, the other in the middle of the platform. ADA access to this platform is provided by an open-air ramp (part of which doesn’t have a railing since it’s along the grass of the open-cut) that is a pathway that beings on the mini-high platform before leading back behind this platform and running along the concrete retaining wall of the parking lot, arriving at street level at the other intermediate staircase down to the Outbound platform. ADA parking spaces are near the start of this ramp.
Photos 1-41 taken on June 19, 2024

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Stepping off an open door on the mini-high platform

The wide staircese up to the parking lot from the Outbound mini-high platform, the walkway to the ramp is behind it

Looking down on the platform sign on the mini-high platform

The blur of a train, next and last stop Worcester departing Track 1

Looking down the low-level portion of Track 1, the mini-high platform of Track 2 (originally designed to be retracted for wider freight trains) is offset from the other mini-high platform

The blur of a Worcester-bound Outbound train fades into the distance down Track 1

Looking across to the mini-high platform for Inbound trains

A staircase in the middle of the Outbound platform up to the parking lot

Heading up the middle staircase from the Outbound platform to the parking lot

A bench along the edge of the parking lot at the top of the ramp to Outbound Track 1

The start of the ramp down to Track 1, normally used by Outbound trains and the parking spaces

Some sheltered benches in the kiss and ride areas, next to the stairs down to the Outbound platform

A bench at the decision point for Track 2 or Track 1

The small bollard passenger pick-up and drop-off area and some information signs (where payboxes ocne were) for parking payment

The pull over area for passenger pick-up and drop-off and crowded parking lot in the middle of a weekday

The sidewalk to leave the station and bridge that provides the only access to the Inbound platform

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