Quincy Center station

QUINCY CENTER

Quincy Center station is combined with a now-closed parking structure, soon to be demolished

Location

1300 Hancock Street at Washington Street
Quincy, Massachusetts

Coordinates

42°15′07″N 71°00′20″W / 42.25194°N 71.00556°WCoordinates: 42°15′07″N 71°00′20″W / 42.25194°N 71.00556°W

Owned by

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

Line(s)

Red Line

Middleborough/
Lakeville Line

Kingston/Plymouth Line

Greenbush Line

Platforms

1 side platform (Commuter Rail)
1 island platform (Red Line)

Tracks

1 (Commuter Rail)
2 (Red Line)

Connections

MBTA Bus: 210, 211, 212, 214, 215, 216, 217, 220, 221, 222, 225, 230, 236, 238, 245

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

Closed

June 30, 1959 (former station)

Previous names

Quincy

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 station is an intermodal transit station in Quincy, Massachusetts. It is a transfer station between the MBTA Red Line subway, MBTA Commuter Rail's Old Colony Lines and Greenbush Line, and a number of MBTA Bus routes. It is located between Hancock Street and Burgin Parkway in the Quincy Center district. 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).

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