Beverly Farms station explained

Style:MBTA
Beverly Farms
Address:1 Oak Street
Coordinates:42.5618°N -70.8113°W
Platform:2 side platforms
Tracks:2
Parking:25 spaces
Bicycle:7 spaces
Passengers:107 (weekday average boardings)
Pass Year:2013
Opened:1847
Rebuilt:, 1898
Accessible:Yes
Zone:5
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Custom:
Shape:none
Line:none
Marker:rail
Zoom:12

Beverly Farms station is an MBTA Commuter Rail station in the Beverly Farms village of Beverly, Massachusetts. Located at the intersection of Oak Street and West Street, it serves the Newburyport/Rockport Line. The 1898-built station building is still present but no longer used for railroad purposes. The station has two side platforms serving the line's two tracks, each with a mini-high section to make the station accessible.

History

The Eastern Railroad opened its Gloucester Branch to Manchester on August 3, 1847, and to Gloucester on December 1.[1] [2] An intermediate station was located at West Beach (West Street at Hale Street). It was a flag stop established by Eastern Railroad president David A. Neal, an early resident of the village of Beverly Farms.[3] [4]

Around 1879, West Beach station was replaced with Beverly Farms station, located to the west adjacent to the village center.[5] [6] In 1898, the Boston and Maine Railroad replaced it with a larger hip-roofed depot. The ticket office in the station building closed on February 22, 1952.[7] The freight house was demolished the year after. The station building was closed in 1958 and renovated for commercial use. A group of friends paid $8,000 for the building and spent $22,000 to convert it for use as a country store. A travel agency began using the space in 1962.[8] It was used as a country store by 1977.[9]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Bradlee, Francis Boardman Crowninshield . The Eastern Railroad: A Historical Account of Early Railroading in Eastern New England . 1917 . Essex Institute . 35. 2027/hvd.hb42t0 .
  2. Book: Boston's Commuter Rail: The First 150 Years . Humphrey . Thomas J.. Clark . Norton D. . Boston Street Railway Association . 1985 . 9780685412947 . 75–80.
  3. Book: A Field Guide to Southern New England Railroad Depots and Freight Houses . Roy, John H. Jr. . Branch Line Press . 2007 . 9780942147087 . 135–136.
  4. Book: Who's who Along the North Shore of Massachusetts Bay . 320 . Salem Press Company . 1910 . Google Books.
  5. Web site: MHC Reconnaissance Survey Town Report: Beverly . 18 . 1986 . Massachusetts Historical Commission.
  6. Atlas of Beverly . Plate K: Beverly Farms . 1880 . G.M. Hopkins & Co. . 50–51 . 1:3,000.
  7. News: B. and M. to Close 4 Ticket Offices . Boston Globe . February 7, 1952 . 2 . Newspapers.com.
  8. News: Few Trains, But Stations Still Busy . Boston Globe . February 16, 1962 . 24 . Newspapers.com.
  9. News: There's no depot like an old depot . Alan P. . Henry . Boston Globe . August 10, 1977 . 3 . Newspapers.com.