Nantasket Junction
Nantasket Junction station in November 2007
General information
Location190 Summer Street
Hingham, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°14′42.72″N 70°52′11.28″W / 42.2452000°N 70.8698000°W / 42.2452000; -70.8698000
Line(s)Greenbush Branch
Nantasket Beach Branch (former)
Platforms1 side platform
Tracks1
Construction
Parking495 spaces ($4.00 fee)
AccessibleYes
Other information
Fare zone4
History
OpenedOctober 31, 2007[1]
ClosedJune 30, 1959 (previous station)
Previous namesOld Colony House
Passengers
2018218 (weekday average boardings)[2]
Services
Preceding station MBTA Following station
West Hingham
toward South Station
 Greenbush Line Cohasset
toward Greenbush
Former services
Preceding station New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Following station
Hingham
toward Boston
 South Shore Line North Cohasset
toward Greenbush
Terminus Nantasket Beach Branch Weir River
toward Pemberton

Nantasket Junction station is an MBTA Commuter Rail station in Hingham, Massachusetts. It serves the Greenbush Line. It is located off Chief Justice Cushing Highway east of downtown Hingham. It consists of a single side platform serving the line's one track. The station is fully accessible.

History

The South Shore Railroad opened between Braintree and Cohasset on January 1, 1849. A station at Old Colony House, serving the nearby hotel of the same name, opened by 1854.[3] It was later renamed Nantasket Junction when the Nantasket Beach Railroad opened. The South Shore Railroad was acquired by the Old Colony Railroad in 1877; the Old Colony was in turn acquired by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in 1893. By 1903, the station was located at Summer Street where the Nantasket Beach Branch met the South Shore mainline.[4]

The New Haven abandoned its remaining Old Colony Division lines on June 30, 1959, after the completion of the Southeast Expressway.[1]

The MBTA reopened the Greenbush Line on October 31, 2007, with Nantasket Junction station located at the former station site.[1] The parking lot is located on the land formerly inside the wye. Solar panels were installed over the parking lot in 2018 – one of the first three of a planned 37 such installations at MBTA parking lots – though activation was delayed by a dispute between the MBTA and the utility over liability.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Belcher, Jonathan. "Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district" (PDF). Boston Street Railway Association.
  2. ↑ Central Transportation Planning Staff (2019). "2018 Commuter Rail Counts". Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
  3. ↑ "South Shore Railroad [advertisement]". Boston Evening Transcript. April 5, 1854. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ "Town on Hingham, Plymouth County". New Topographical Atlas of Surveys of Plymouth County, MA. 1903.
  5. ↑ DiFazio, Joe (November 17, 2018). "MBTA turns to solar arrays at South Shore train stations". Patriot Ledger. Retrieved January 21, 2021.

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