Brandeis/Roberts station explained

Style:MBTA
Brandeis/Roberts
Address:1 Sawyer Road
Coordinates:42.362°N -71.2601°W
Other: MBTA bus:
Platform:2 side platforms
Tracks:2
Parking:70 spaces ($4.00 fee)
Bicycle:8 spaces
Passengers:369 (weekday average boardings)
Pass Year:2018
Accessible:Yes
Zone:2
Former:Roberts
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Custom:
Shape:none
Line:none
Marker:rail
Zoom:12

Brandeis/Roberts station is an MBTA Commuter Rail station in Waltham, Massachusetts. It serves the Fitchburg Line and is located on the edge of the campus of Brandeis University. The station is fully accessible, with mini-high platforms serving both tracks.

History

The Fitchburg Railroad opened from Waltham to Concord on June 17, 1844.[1] A flag stop was open at the South Street crossing by 1852.[2] It was named Roberts Crossing (later shortened to Roberts) after John Roberts, who operated a nearby paper mill.[3] [4] [5]

New stations at Roberts and nearby Stony Brook were built in 1887.[6] [7] The railroad opened a roundhouse at Roberts in early 1893, replacing an older facility in Waltham.[8] The Boston and Maine Railroad (B&M) closed the station building in 1937, but trains continued to stop at the platform.[9] [10]

In 1977 or 1978, the station was renamed Brandeis–Roberts (later styled Brandeis/Roberts) to denote the growing university. A $70,000 renovation of the station was completed on December 18, 1986.[11] Accessible mini-high platforms were installed either in that renovation or around 1991.[12] [13]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Boston's Commuter Rail: The First 150 Years . Humphrey . Thomas J.. Clark . Norton D. . Boston Street Railway Association . 1985 . 9780685412947 . 87, 88.
  2. Map of Middlesex County, Massachusetts : based upon the trigonometrical survey of the state . Henry F. . Walling . 1852 . Smith & Bumstead . 1:50,000.
  3. County atlas of Middlesex, Massachusetts : from actual surveys . Waltham . Frederick W. . Beers . 1875 . J.B. Beers & Co. . 87 . 1:26,400.
  4. Book: Hurd, Duane Hamilton . History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . 757, 758 . III . 1890 . J. W. Lewis & Co .
  5. Memoir of William Roberts . 313 . Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers . 34 . American Society of Civil Engineers . 1908.
  6. News: Currents of Commerce . The Boston Globe . January 12, 1887 . 3 . Newspapers.com.
  7. News: Railroad Racket . The Boston Globe . September 1, 1887 . 3 . Newspapers.com.
  8. News: Notes Here and There . Boston Evening Transcript . February 2, 1893 . 3 . Newspapers.com.
  9. News: B. & M. Would End Winter Hill Service . Boston Globe . February 13, 1937 . 20 . Newspapers.com.
  10. News: Will Continue Four Roberts Platform Stops . Boston Globe . March 30, 1937 . 6 . Newspapers.com.
  11. Book: Sanborn, George M. . A Chronicle of the Boston Transit System . 1992 . Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority . Massachusetts Institute of Technology . 2019-10-17 . 2019-11-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191127202604/http://web.mit.edu/cron/project/uncertainty/Dowd_Data/Baum_Snow/boston-history.txt . dead .
  12. Book: MBTA : ACCESS; The Guide to Accessible Services and Facilities . 15 . June 1992 . Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority . Internet Archive.
  13. Web site: Ridership and Service Statistics . 3 . November 1990 . 1–5 . Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority . Operations Directorate Planning Division . Internet Archive.

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