West Medford (MBTA station)

West Medford is a regional rail station on the MBTA Commuter Rail Lowell Line, located at West Medford Square in Medford, Massachusetts. West Medford station is not handicapped accessible.

History

When the original Boston and Lowell Railroad was laid out in the 1830s, West Medford was mostly farmland. The route of the new railroad (one of the oldest railroads in North America) was built on land acquired from Peter Chardon Brooks, who sold a strip for the right-of-way plus a parcel for the station on High Street. The initial stop was called "Medford Gates"; it gave birth to West Medford Square and, eventually, the surrounding residential neighborhoods.

The depot structure built in 1880 was destroyed by a fire in 1950. The finial from the roof of the station now resides today at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.

Bus connections

Three MBTA Bus routes - two local routes and one express - stop directly on High Street (MA-60) at West Medford station: