Lynn station
MBTA rail station in Lynn, Massachusetts, US / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lynn station (signed as Central Square–Lynn) is an intermodal transit station in downtown Lynn, Massachusetts. It is a station on the MBTA Commuter Rail Newburyport/Rockport Line and a hub for the MBTA bus system. The rail station and parking garage temporarily closed on October 1, 2022, pending a reconstruction project, while the busway remained open. Interim platforms nearby opened in December 2023.
Central Square – Lynn | |||||||||||||
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Location | Lynn, Massachusetts | ||||||||||||
Coordinates | 42.46522°N 70.94067°W / 42.46522; -70.94067 | ||||||||||||
Line(s) | Eastern Route | ||||||||||||
Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||
Connections | MBTA bus: 426, 426W, 429, 435, 436, 439, 441, 442, 455, 456 | ||||||||||||
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Bicycle facilities | 14 spaces | ||||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||
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Fare zone | 2 | ||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||
Opened | 1838 | ||||||||||||
Rebuilt | 1848, 1872, 1895, 1909–1914, 1952, 1991–1992, 2023[1] | ||||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||||
2018 | 549 (weekday average boardings)[2] | ||||||||||||
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Service on the Eastern Railroad through Lynn began on August 27, 1838. The original wooden station was replaced by a larger structure in 1848, and the Saugus Branch began serving Lynn in 1855. In the "Great Lynn Depot War", a local disagreement in 1865 about where to place a replacement station became a major court case. It ended in 1872 with the construction of stations at two closely spaced sites, though one was soon torn down. The other station burned in 1889; it was replaced in 1895 by a depot with a large clock tower.
The Boston and Maine Railroad (B&M), which had acquired the Eastern in 1883, began a grade separation project through Lynn in 1909 – part of an attempt to quadruple-track the whole line. Completed in 1914, it expanded the station to four tracks and two island platforms, with the 1895-built structure modified "not for the better". It was replaced in 1952 by a modernist brick structure. Saugus Branch service ended in 1958; service on the mainline was subsidized beginning in 1965 by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA).
The MBTA opened a new accessible island platform in 1992, along with a large parking garage that anticipated a never-realized extension of the Blue Line. Lynn is also a major bus transfer point serving eleven MBTA bus routes in the North Shore region, including routes leading to Salem, Marblehead, Wonderland, and the Liberty Tree Mall as well as downtown Boston. In 2003, the bus routes were moved to a busway adjacent to the garage.