Stoughton - MBTA Commuter Rail Providence/Stoughton Line

Stoughton is the terminus of the 4.1 mile branch that is the two-stop Stoughton Line off of the Northeast Corridor Main Line and is unelectrified. Trains run roughly hourly on weekdays, with no weekend service to the station. There is nearby bus service provided by Brockton Area Transit to Brockton on the Middleborough/Lakeview Line.

The station consists of an extremely historic 1888 built stone station depot. This depot is located along Wyman Street at the corner of the tracks. Inside is what was once a wood paneled waiting area, complete with signs on the outside saying its open from 6:00am to 10:00am but when I visited the station in June 2024 the inside didn’t look like it had been open in a long time with Christmas wreathes randomly stored inside. The depot has a stone clock tower and porches on each side of the building under the same Victorian-era gabled roof line. The entrance facing Wymon Street has a Portico that says 1888 and Stoughton in lettering beneath.

The depot leads out to a largely low-level platform along a single track that is split into two by the grade-crossing of Wyman Street. The platform begins at the grade-crossing of Porter Street, before a historic wooden shelter structure begins, connecting directly under the historic depot. This shelter structure contains a few historic wooden signs with Stoughton written in white text beneath them. Trains stop directly over the grade-crossing of Wyman Street where the low-level platform continues passing a non-descript building for the Portuguese National Club before reaching a mini-high platform with a single ramp up to it and a simple wooden canopy structure.

Passengers can park in a total of 361 spaces located in parking lots in front of the depot and on both sides of the short platform extension to where the mini-high platform is.

The nature of the grade-crossing in the middle of the station means terminating trains drop-off their passengers before continuing south of the station to one of two sidings (the siding track awkwardly begins in the middle of the mini-high platform with the switch in the middle of the station platform) to layover before their next trip, reentering the station (and blocking the grade-crossing of Wyman Street) just before they begin their next trip to Boston. I don’t believe trains are stored on the layover tracks over nights and weekends since they are unsecured, with the first and last runs of the day required to deadhead from train yards, the closest at the Readville Yard.
Photos 1-58: June 20, 2024;

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