Quincy Center (MBTA station)

QUINCY CENTER QUINCY CENTER
Quincy Center MBTA station is combined with a now-closed parking structure
Location	1300 Hancock Street at Washington Street Quincy, MA 02169
Coordinates	42°15′07″N 71°00′20″W / 42.25194°N 71.00556°W / 42.25194; -71.00556Coordinates: 42°15′07″N 71°00′20″W / 42.25194°N 71.00556°W / 42.25194; -71.00556
Owned by	Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
Line(s)	Red Line   Greenbush Line   Middleborough/ Lakeville Line   Kingston/Plymouth Line
Platforms	1 side platform (Commuter Rail) 1 island platform (Red Line)
Tracks	1 (Commuter Rail) 2 (Red Line)
Construction
Parking	872 spaces ($5.00 fee) 16 accessible spaces
Bicycle facilities	20 spaces
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	1 (Commuter Rail) (Exit fare zone on Red Line until 1980)
History
Opened	September 1, 1971
Traffic
Passengers (2013)	8,655 (weekday average boardings)
Services
Preceding station   MBTA   Following station Wollaston toward Alewife Red Line Braintree Branch Quincy Adams toward Braintree JFK/UMass toward South Station Greenbush Line Weymouth Landing/East Braintree toward Greenbush Kingston/Plymouth Line Braintree toward Kingston or Plymouth Middleborough/ Lakeville Line Braintree toward Middleborough / Lakeville

Quincy Center is an intermodal transfer station located between Hancock Street and Burgin Parkway in the Quincy Center district of Quincy, Massachusetts. It serves as a station stop on the Red Line subway and the Old Colony Lines and Greenbush Line of the MBTA Commuter Rail, as well as a major terminal for MBTA Bus routes in the Quincy area. Opened in 1971, the station is covered by a large parking garage which was closed in 2012 due to structural problems.

Quincy Center station is partially handicapped accessible – all buses and trains are accessible from the Hancock Street entrance, but due to the garage closure the Burgin Parkway entrance is no longer accessible.

The Old Colony Railroad opened its main line from South Boston to Plymouth on November 10, 1845.Quincy station was located at Quincy Square behind the town hall. The station was rebuilt in the late 1890s; that iteration consisted of a low brick building with two side platforms (very similar to the extant building at Norwood Central) with shelters serving the line's two tracks. Service on the former Old Colony lines, operated by the New Haven Railroad since 1893, ended on June 30, 1959. The Quincy depot was later demolished.

The 1926 Report on Improved Transportation Facilities and 1945–47 Coolidge Commission Report recommended the Cambridge-Dorchester Line receive a branch to Braintree along the Old Colony right-of-way. In May 1966, the MBTA began construction on the South Shore Line branch of the Cambridge-Dorchester Line (which was renamed the Red Line in 1967).

The line was intended to be completed to Braintree by May 1969. Although the South Shore Line was planned to extend to Braintree and possibly even to Holbrook or Brockton, it was temporarily terminated at Quincy Center due to disagreements about station locations and other issues.