Roslindale Village station is an MBTA Commuter Rail station on the Needham Line, located in the Roslindale Square business district of the

Roslindale Roslindale is a primarily residential neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, bordered by Jamaica Plain, Hyde Park, West Roxbury and Mattapan. It is served by an MBTA Commuter Rail line, several MBTA bus lines and the MBTA Orange Line in nearby J ...

neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts. The station has a single

side platform A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platform ...

serving the line's single track, with a mini-high platform for accessibility.

History

The

Boston and Providence Railroad The Boston and Providence Railroad was a railroad company in the states of Massachusetts and Rhode Island which connected its namesake cities. It opened in two sections in 1834 and 1835 - one of the first rail lines in the United States - with a ...

(B&P) opened its West Roxbury Branch from to via West Roxbury on June 3, 1850. Stations at South Street (later Roslindale, now Roslindale Village), Central (), and all opened with the branch. A grade crossing elimination project in the late 1890s raised the tracks above grade. A rail bridge was built over Roberts Street, while South Street was cut at the tracks, with only a pedestrian underpass. The 1898-built bridge over Roberts Street was be replaced with a modern bridge in June 2021. The new bridge was designed to allow construction of a parallel span should a second track be later added.

Bus connections

Roslindale Square is an important bus transfer location; nine MBTA bus routes run on Washington Street between Forest Hills and Roslindale, then fan out to the south and west. Five of these routes (plus the 14, which terminates at Roslindale Square) serve the station directly via Belgrade Avenue: *: Roslindale Square– *: – via Cummins Highway and Roslindale Square *: Dedham Mall or Stimson Street–Forest Hills station *: Millennium Park or VA Hospital–Forest Hills station *: Baker Street & Vermont Street–Forest Hills station *: Reservoir station–Forest Hills station Four additional routes stop on Washington Street about east of the station: *: Dedham Square–Forest Hills station *: Walpole Center–Forest Hills station *: Georgetowne–Forest Hills station *: Cleary Square–Forest Hills station Route , a single early-morning trip, also serves Roslindale Square.

References

External links

MBTA - Roslindale Village

Robert Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
MBTA Commuter Rail stations in Boston Former New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad stations 1850 establishments in Massachusetts {{Massachusetts-railstation-stub Railway stations in the United States opened in 1850