| Style: | MBTA | ||||||||
| Rowley | |||||||||
| Address: | 70 Railroad Avenue | ||||||||
| Coordinates: | 42.7269°N -70.8591°W | ||||||||
| Tracks: | 1 | ||||||||
| Parking: | Yes | ||||||||
| Passengers: | 113 (weekday average boardings) | ||||||||
| Pass Year: | 2018 | ||||||||
| Opened: | October 26, 1998 | ||||||||
| Accessible: | Yes | ||||||||
| Zone: | 7 | ||||||||
| Mapframe: | yes | ||||||||
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Rowley station is an MBTA Commuter Rail station in Rowley, Massachusetts. It is the penultimate station on the Newburyport branch of the Newburyport/Rockport Line.
The small Boston and Maine Railroad (B&M) station building in Rowley was in disrepair by 1961, and was later demolished.[1] Service to the station ended on April 20, 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 to in January 1965); at that point, service beyond consisted of only one daily round trip to North Station. 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. Newburyport service continued to run until April 2, 1976.[2]
The current station opened on October 26, 1998, as part of the restoration of service on the Newburyport/Rockport Line between Ipswich and Newburyport.[3] 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.