Mount Hope (MBTA station)
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MOUNT HOPE
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Inbound building in 1899
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| Location | Blakemore Street, Roslindale, MA | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 42°17′08″N 71°07′10″W / 42.2855°N 71.1195°WCoordinates: 42°17′08″N 71°07′10″W / 42.2855°N 71.1195°W | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | ca. 1882 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Closed | November 3, 1979 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Previous names | Monterey | ||||||||||||||||||
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Mount Hope station was a railroad station on the Northeast Corridor in Roslindale, Boston, Massachusetts. The station consisted of two separate depots on opposite sides of the tracks. The brick outbound depot was located just north of the Blakemore Street bridge, while the wooden inbound depot was located south of the overpass.
The station was built as an infill station on the existing Boston & Providence Railroad circa 1882. The outbound building showed "1884" on one of its stones. The station was at railroad level below grade; street access was via sets of stairs. The wooden inbound building was built sometime after the outbound building. The Boston & Providence Railroad was acquired by the Old Colony Railroad in 1888, which in turn became part of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in 1893. A brief controversy took place over poor station lighting in 1906.
The station buildings were closed in 1941 or 1942 after World War II started, but trains still served the station. The inbound building was demolished after a fire and replaced with a small shelter. Ridership declined due to the competing #32 trolley line as well as the general disuse of railroads, but the station was never completely abandoned. The NYNH&H folded into Penn Central in 1969, who sold the line and station to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority in 1973.Conrail took over Penn Central in 1976 and the Boston & Maine Railroad was contracted to operate the southside commuter lines starting in March 1977, thus marking the sixth operator to run trains to Mount Hope.
On November 3, 1979, the MBTA closed the tracks from Readville to Back Bay for construction of the Southwest Corridor. Providence and Franklin trains were rerouted via the Fairmount Line, while Mount Hope and Hyde Park were closed. When the corridor reopened to commuter trains in October 1987, only Hyde Park was returned to service. Mount Hope was considered too close to Forest Hills and the Orange Line to be useful. The MBTA offered instead a limited-service stop several hundred yards south at Cummins Highway, but local opinion was against the plan.
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