Beverly Depot (MBTA station)

BEVERLY DEPOT
Historic Beverly Depot and modern asphalt platforms
Location	12 Park Street Beverly, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°32′51″N 70°53′07″W / 42.54760°N 70.88535°W / 42.54760; -70.88535Coordinates: 42°32′51″N 70°53′07″W / 42.54760°N 70.88535°W / 42.54760; -70.88535
Owned by	MBTA
Line(s)	Newburyport/Rockport Line
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	MBTA Bus: 451 CATA: Beverly Shuttle
Construction
Parking	500 spaces ($5.00 fee) Accessible spaces available
Bicycle facilities	"Pedal and Park" bicycle cage
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	4
History
Opened	1839
Rebuilt	1897
Traffic
Passengers (2013)	2,058 (weekday inbound average)
Services
Preceding station   MBTA   Following station Salem toward North Station Newburyport/Rockport Line Montserrat toward Rockport North Beverly toward Newburyport
Beverly Depot
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
NRHP Reference #	09000087
Added to NRHP	October 11, 1979

Beverly Depot is a regional rail station on the MBTA Commuter Rail Newburyport/Rockport Line, located in downtown Beverly, Massachusetts. Beverly Depot is one of five stations in the city. It is the junction of the line's two branches to Newburyport and Rockport and is served by every train on both branches, for as many as 30 departures to Boston on weekdays. This is the most frequent inbound service from any MBTA Commuter Rail station save Anderson RTC. By a 2013 count, Beverly Depot had the third highest inbound ridership on the system (behind only Providence and Salem) with 2,058 inbound riders on a typical weekday.

The Eastern Railroad was extended through Beverly to Ipswich in 1839. The 1839 station was replaced in 1855; that station was in turn replaced by one designed by Bradford Lee Gilbert in 1897. The station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, and is a contributing property of the Beverly Depot-Odell Park Historic District which was added in 2014. A 500-space parking garage at Beverly opened on August 2, 2014.

The current Beverly Depot is this third station to serve Beverly. The first station, opened in 1839, was located next to the Essex Bridge; its 1855 replacement was a larger wooden building with a train shed at the modern site. The train shed was torn down for the 1897 construction of the Bradford Lee Gilbert station that still stands. A copy was built ten years later at Andover.