Middleborough / Lakeville

  Bridgewater

 

Brockton

CapeFLYER

Wareham Village

Middleborough/Lakeville is currently the terminus of this namesake line, although most Commuter Rail service will likely be discontinued in May 2025 when service is relocated to a new Middleborough Station at Pilgrim Junction (about one mile north of the station) when the South Coast Rail Project is completed. This will result in trains rerouted as part of new extensions to Fall River or New Bedford. This station will continue to be on the route used by the CapeFLYER and I assume seasonal service will continue at this station because no CapeFlYER platform is being built along the existing tracks at the new Middleborough Station.

The present station is a Transit Oriented Development success story – which makes the closer of the station feel short-sighted – with multiple new apartment/town home developments being built in walking distance of the station and clearly visible just beyond the stations 769 space parking lot.

Along the north side of the station’s parking lots is the station’s single platform for the single-track rail line. The line is the terminus of Commuter Rail service but tracks continue to Wareham and Cape Cod, used by the seasonal Cape Cod Flyer. Terminating trains that don’t immediately turn-around for another round-trip to Boston deadhead north of the station to the Kelios Layover Yard near Pilgrim Junction that is on the opposite side of the new parking lot for the new Middleborough MBTA station.

The station’s high-level platform is at the same level as the parking lot, with the tracks depressed and at a lower grade than the parking lot. The single platform contains a simple 3 car long metal canopy structure coving about 3 cars. The rest of the platform is exposed with various Middleborough/Lakeville signs above built in benches. The platform canopy is alongside the station’s Drop Off and Pick Up loop (plus a bus stop for very limited GATRA bus service), a line of bollards prevents drivers from driving onto the platform. The northern end of the platform is alongside a secondary road that leads around to the station’s parking lot with some grassy green space (I assume for stormwater management) between a large portion of the parking lot and platform.
Photos 1-58: June 20, 2024;

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The Schedule panel facing a train terminating at the station

The neighborhood map a few things are within a 5 to 10 minute walk, plus GATRA

Cars park alongside the platform picking passengers up from a recently arrived terminating train or dropping passengers off before the next train

The actual main drop-off area with bollards

Looking down the main driveway through the parking lot

Walking down the sidewalk to leave the station

Cars in the farely crowded parking lot and TOD in the distance

Trees along the main station entrance road

The driveway into the station has a median with trees, with the station in the distance

Sign to keep right and to drive up to Bridgewater station if this parking lot is full, as the southern terminus currently of Commuter Rail this station has a large catchment area

Sign for Middleborough/Lakeville Commuter Rail Parking only

Sign at the entrance to the station along Commercial Drive, housing is across the street

Apartments across from the entrance to the station

The slightly overgrown sidewalk with cars parked blocking it that leads from the parking lot entrance to the station platform

In the middle of the crowded parking lot

A crowded parking lot and awaiting midday commuter train for Boston in at the station's platform

Empty ADA parking spaces along the southern side of the parking lot

ADA parking spaces and the drop-off loop

The closest ADA parking spaces to a bike rack and the station platform

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