Newmarket (MBTA station)

NEWMARKET
The newly-opened station in July 2013
Location	Massachusetts Avenue and Newmarket Square Dorchester, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°19′38″N 71°03′57″W / 42.3271°N 71.0659°W / 42.3271; -71.0659Coordinates: 42°19′38″N 71°03′57″W / 42.3271°N 71.0659°W / 42.3271; -71.0659
Owned by	MBTA
Line(s)	Fairmount Line
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	MBTA Bus: 8, 10, 16, CT3
Construction
Bicycle facilities	20 spaces
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	1A
History
Opened	July 1, 2013
Traffic
Passengers (2016)	72 (weekday average boardings)
Services
Preceding station   MBTA   Following station Uphams Corner toward Readville Fairmount Line South Station Terminus Uphams Corner toward Forge Park/495 Franklin Line limited service

Newmarket is a passenger rail station on the MBTA Commuter Rail's Fairmount Line, located off Massachusetts Avenue at Newmarket Square in Dorchester, Massachusetts. The station has two 800-foot high-level platforms and sloping walkways connecting it to Massachusetts Avenue. Originally planned to be in service in 2011, it opened on July 1, 2013 along with Four Corners/Geneva Ave.

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. There were stations located in South Boston and at Dudley Street (now the site of Uphams Corner station) but not at Massachusetts Avenue. Newmarket is thus the first railroad station located at the site. 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.

A plan called the Indigo Line was later advanced by community activists in which the line would add stations and more frequent service to closely resemble a conventional rapid transit line. The Indigo Line plan was not adopted, but elements of it were included when the Commonwealth of Massachusetts agreed in 2005 to make improvements on the Fairmount Line part of its legally binding commitment to mitigate increased air pollution from the Big Dig. Among the selected improvements in the Fairmount Line Improvements project were four new commuter rail stations on the line, including one at Massachusetts Avenue. The stations were originally to be completed by the end of 2011.