Woburn station was a railroad station on the

Woburn Branch The Woburn Branch Railroad (known as the Woburn Loop) was a branch line of the Boston and Lowell Railroad ("B&L") and later of the MBTA Commuter Rail system that connected the Lowell Line with the city square in Woburn, Massachusetts. History Wh ...

(formerly the Woburn Loop), part of the

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Lowell Line The Lowell Line is a railroad line of the MBTA Commuter Rail system, running north from Boston to Lowell, Massachusetts. Originally built as the New Hampshire Main Line of the Boston & Lowell Railroad and later operated as part of the Boston & M ...

History

It was closed in 1981 when service on the Woburn Branch was terminated due to poor track conditions and insufficient funding; service north of Woburn station had already been discontinued in June 1959. After the closure of the Woburn Branch, all trains travelling outbound from

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on the Lowell Line simply stayed on the main line all the way north to Lowell. The only station on the Lowell Line left in Woburn was Mishawum, a low-capacity station that was only meant to serve the sparsely-populated northern neighborhoods of Woburn. The need for a larger station in the city quickly became apparent, so in 2001, the

Anderson Regional Transportation Center Anderson Regional Transportation Center (RTC) (noted on MBTA schedules and maps as Anderson/Woburn, and on Amtrak schedules and maps as Woburn–Anderson) is a train and bus station located at 100 Atlantic Avenue, off Commerce Way, in Woburn, Mas ...

, signed on MBTA maps as "Anderson/Woburn," was opened. Today, Anderson RTC is the MBTA station with the second-highest number of daily train departures outside of downtown Boston (30), and serves both the Lowell and Haverhill lines, as well as

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trains on the Downeaster service. Although the northern part of the Woburn Branch within the town of Wilmington (about a mile in length) is still used as an

industrial spur A branch line is a phrase used in railway terminology to denote a secondary railway line which branches off a more important through route, usually a main line. A very short branch line may be called a spur line. Industrial spur An industri ...

to service customers along the line in South Wilmington, and the right-of-way of the entire branch is still owned by the MBTA, the part of the branch within Woburn is abandoned. After its closure, the former station building was destroyed by vandals.

References

MBTA Commuter Rail stations in Middlesex County, Massachusetts Former MBTA stations in Massachusetts Buildings and structures in Woburn, Massachusetts Railway stations in the United States opened in 1844 Former Boston and Maine Railroad stations Railway stations in the United States closed in 1981 {{Massachusetts-railstation-stub