Uphams Corner (MBTA station)

UPHAMS CORNER
Outbound train leaving Uphams Corner in 2011
Location	691 Dudley Street Dorchester, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°19′09″N 71°04′07″W / 42.3191°N 71.0686°W / 42.3191; -71.0686Coordinates: 42°19′09″N 71°04′07″W / 42.3191°N 71.0686°W / 42.3191; -71.0686
Owned by	MBTA
Line(s)	Fairmount Line
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	MBTA Bus: 15, 41, 191
Construction
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	1A
History
Opened	1855; November 3, 1979; October 5, 1987
Closed	1944; January 30, 1981
Rebuilt	January 23, 2007
Previous names	Stoughton Street (until 1880s) Dudley Street (1880s - June 15, 1924)
Traffic
Passengers (2013)	166 (weekday average boardings)
Services
Preceding station   MBTA   Following station Four Corners/ Geneva Ave toward Readville Fairmount Line Newmarket toward South Station Four Corners/ Geneva Ave toward Forge Park/495 Franklin Line Limited service

Uphams Corner is a commuter rail station on the MBTA Commuter Rail Fairmount Line, located on Dudley Street in the Uphams Corner area of the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It was reopened in 1979 after the line had been closed for 35 years. The station is fully handicapped accessible with two full-length high-level platforms and ramps to the street, which were added during a construction project that finished in 2007. The Uphams Corner business district is within easy walking distance.

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, although it was frequently out of service until 1867. The service included a stop at Stoughton Street near Uphams Corner; a Cottage Street station was also briefly located a block to the north. The station was renamed Dudley Street in the 1880s after the street was renamed between the railroad and Uphams Corner.

In the 1900s, the station was rebuilt, with buildings on both sides of the tracks connected by a pedestrian tunnel. On June 15, 1924, the station was again renamed as Uphams Corner, possibly to avoid confusion with Dudley Street Terminal. Undercut by streetcars, buses, and the Elevated for decades, service on the line ended in 1944.

The Dorchester Branch (also known as the Midland Route) was reopened as a bypass on November 3, 1979 during Southwest Corridor construction, including stops at Uphams Corner, Morton Street, and Fairmount. Uphams Corner was originally built at minimal cost, with small low-level platforms and staircases to Dudley Street. Intended to be only in service for several years, the station was not handicapped accessible.