Sharon

  Mansfield

Canton Jct  

 

Sharon is an intermediate stop on the Northeast Corridor with two low-level side platforms for the two-track line. The two tracks are fully electrified for Amtrak Acela Express and Northeast Regional trains that bypass the station although all MBTA Commuter Rail trains run diesel under wire. There are mini-high platforms at the southern end of each platform for ADA accessibility with ramps stairs and full canopies over the entire mini-high platform. These mini-high platforms opened on September 30, 2014, making the entire Providence-Stoughton Line accessible. Both platforms have large parking lots alongside them, with the parking lot on the Inbound side continuing 800 feet south from the southern ends of this platform.

The low-level platforms begin just north of the road overpass of Depot Street and run south. Depot Street provides the pedestrian connection between the two platforms, with staircases down to each platform, and a ramp down to only the outbound platform from 200 feet east of the station platform via a section of the outbound platform’s parking lot. The accessible path to the Inbound platform requires turning from Depot Street onto Chestnut Street before a short ramp leads down to the main ADA parking spaces opposite the depot.

The station house is located on the Inbound side of the station. It is a simple brick building built in the 1930s. It no longer appears to be open with grates over all the windows and a fading T Passes Sold Here in the window (pre-Charlie Cards) from when this was open as a ticket office. The depot leads out to two car-long canopy structure along the platforms, with older looking metal posts holding up a wooden canopy structure along the Inbound platform.

Across from here the outbound platform has a similar canopy structure that is a similar length. It provides the only form of shelter to Rhode Island-bound passengers. There is a small section between two of the support beams that is half-enclosed by brick providing a small form of a windscreen.
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Stepping off an Inbound Train on the mini-high platform

Heading down the steps to the low-level platform (next to a ramp) to leave the station

The BiLevel at the front of an Inbound train from Wickford Junction

A Sharon platform sign with a mesh windscreen and sign to board trains - Boston for Wheelchairs at the mini high platform that on the MBTA every train opens at least one door at

The crew slowly closes a door on CTC-5 #1807 to leave the station

The front of a Commuter Rail train preparing to leave, the train has stopped short of the station house by the platform canopy, an Outbound train is visible behind it

The 5 car stop sign and brick depot beyond it

Zooming past the side of F40PH-3C at a departing southbound train entirely of BiLevel cars

F40PH-3C #1026 pushes a train north towards Boston

F40PH-3C #1026 and a Boston-bound train fades into the distance leaving the station

The rear BiLevel CTC-5 #1816 brings up the rear of a Providence-bound train fading into the distance

Approaching the stairs/ramp up to both of the mini-high platforms at the southern ends of the platforms at Sharon

The station ends at mini-high platforms with nice canopies and benches becuase they were built in the 2010s

Accessible parking spaces by the mini-high platforms, although its a long walk or roll to get between them going to the opposite end of the station

A sign on the Boston platform at Sharon

Start of the ramp to the Board Trains Here: Boston mini-high platform

Looking across to the Outbound mini-high platform with its silver canopy and a platform sign

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