Newton Corner (MBTA station)

NEWTON CORNER
1880s-built Newton Corner depot on an early color postcard
Coordinates	42°21′27″N 71°11′04″W / 42.35756°N 71.18441°W / 42.35756; -71.18441Coordinates: 42°21′27″N 71°11′04″W / 42.35756°N 71.18441°W / 42.35756; -71.18441
Owned by	Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
Line(s)	Green Line "A" branch   Worcester Line
Tracks	2 (Green Line) 4 (commuter rail)
Connections	MBTA Bus: 52, 57, 501, 502, 503, 504, 553, 554, 556, 558
History
Opened	c. 1834 (commuter rail) May 21, 1898 (Green Line)
Closed	April 1959 (commuter rail) June 21, 1969 (Green Line)
Services
Preceding station   MBTA   Following station Watertown Terminus Green Line "A" Branch Ended 1969 Oak Square toward Park Street New York Central Railroad Newtonville toward Worcester Worcester Line Closed 1959 Faneuil toward Boston

Newton Corner is a former streetcar and passenger rail station in the Newton Corner neighborhood of Newton, Massachusetts, located near where Washington Street crosses the Massachusetts Turnpike. The Newton Corner station, known simply as Newton for much of its lifetime, served commuters on the Worcester Line (run by the New York Central Railroad and its predecessors) from 1834 to 1959. The trolley stop, located on the surface streets, served a number of routes beginning in 1898, including the Green Line "A" Branch until 1969.

Newton Corner is now a stop and transfer point for a number of bus routes including high-frequency express routes to downtown Boston as well as local routes.

The Boston and Worcester Railroad opened the segment from downtown Boston to West Newton on April 7, 1834, with a station called Newton Corner opening then or soon after in the Angier's Corner neighborhood. The station was located on the south side of the tracks west of Centre Street. A second track was added in 1839, and in 1843 the railroad began offering season fares for around $60, making it one of the first commuter rail systems. Newton Corner was among the most popular stations, with ridership of 26,000 in 1866.

A village petition around 1870 resulted in the station being renamed as simply Newton. Third and fourth tracks through the station were built in 1884. Around this time, a new station building was built in the Richardsonian Romanesque style. The Boston & Worcester became part of the Boston and Albany Railroad in 1867, which itself was leased by the New York Central Railroad in 1900.

The first trolleys in Allston-Brighton had been a branch off the Cambridge Horse Railroad to Oak Square, and ran to Cambridge rather than downtown Boston. On June 13, 1896, trackage on Commonwealth Avenue (part of the future "B" Branch) and Brighton Avenue opened as a direct electrified route to downtown; at the same time, the line was extended to just short of Newton Corner.