Blue Hill Avenue (MBTA station)

BLUE HILL AVENUE
Station site viewed in September 2012
Location	Blue Hill Avenue Dorchester, Massachusetts
Owned by	MBTA
Line(s)	Fairmount Line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	28, 29, 30, 31
Construction
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	1855 Spring 2019
Closed	March 12, 1944
Previous names	Mattapan
Traffic
Passengers (2019)	290 daily (projected)
Services
Preceding station   MBTA   Following station Fairmount toward Readville Fairmount Line Starting 2019 Morton Street toward South Station

Blue Hill Avenue is a proposed regional rail station on the MBTA Commuter Rail Fairmount Line, located in the Mattapan neighborhood of Dorchester, Boston. The station will consist of a center island platform between the line's two tracks, with handicapped-accessible ramps to Blue Hill Avenue and Cummins Highway. Originally intended to open along with Newmarket, Four Corners/Geneva Ave, and Talbot Ave, it has been significantly delayed due to local controversy. As of October 2016^[update], the station is in final design and fully funded; construction will begin in 2017 for a Spring 2019 opening.

Service on the Fairmount Line (as the Dorchester Branch of the Norfolk County Railroad and later the New York and New England Railroad and New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad) began in 1855 and lasted until 1944. A station called Mattapan was located at Blue Hill Avenue. A station building was located on the inbound side, with a shelter on the outbound side. (This station was separate from the Dorchester and Milton Branch Railroad's Mattapan station, which still stands in Mattapan Square next to the trolley station that replaced it.)

Another station, "Rugby", was located at what is now Greenfield Road. No trace of either former station remains.

Temporary shuttle service resumed on the Fairmount Line in 1979 during Southwest Corridor construction, with stops at Uphams Corner, Morton Street, and Fairmount. The MBTA planned to drop the shuttle after service resumed on the Southwest Corridor in 1987, but the service was locally popular and the Fairmount Line became a permanent part of the system.