MBTA Commuter Rail Maintenance Facility

BOSTON ENGINE TERMINAL

Locomotive #1028 on a repair track
Location Somerville, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°22′30″N 71°4′33″W / 42.37500°N 71.07583°W / 42.37500; -71.07583Coordinates: 42°22′30″N 71°4′33″W / 42.37500°N 71.07583°W / 42.37500; -71.07583
Owned by MBTA
Services
Preceding station   MBTA   Following station
toward Wachusett
Fitchburg Line
Terminus
Terminus
Lowell Line
toward Lowell
Haverhill Line
Limited service
toward Haverhill
Haverhill Line
toward Haverhill
Newburyport/Rockport Line

The MBTA Commuter Rail Maintenance Facility (signed as, and often known by, its former name of Boston Engine Terminal) is the primary train maintenance repair facility for the MBTA Commuter Rail system. It is located in the Inner Belt area of Somerville, Massachusetts, near North Station in Boston. The present Commuter Rail Maintenance Facility was built in 1995, replacing the Boston Engine Terminal which was built by the former Boston and Maine Railroad.

Three small platforms on asphalt crossings serve as flag stops for MBTA employees only. One platform serves the Fitchburg Line, another the Lowell Line, and a third the Haverhill Line and Newburyport/Rockport Line (which split a mile north of the CRMF).

It has been viewed as a possible location for a light rail maintenance facility for the under-construction Green Line Extension.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "Green Line Extension Project Analysis of the Boston Engine Terminal for The Purposes of Siting a Light Rail Vehicle Support Facility" (PDF). MBTA/Massachusetts Department of Transportation. March 2011. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
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