Middleboro/Lakeville

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Middleborough/Lakeville is an MBTA Commuter Rail station in Lakeville, Massachusetts, serving as the terminus of the Middleborough/Lakeville Line. The current station reopened along with the rest of the Old Colony Lines on September 29, 1997. Middleborough/Lakeville has a single full-length high-level platform serving the line's single track.An older station was located in downtown Middleborough, serving regular passenger service until 1959 and Cape Cod & Hyannis Railroad service from 1984 to 1988. The modern station is located in Lakeville, about a mile south of Middleborough Center, on the former Cape Cod Division of the Old Colony Railroad.OperationsMiddleborough/Lakeville is the normal terminus of the eponymous Middleborough/Lakeville Line, the southern branch of the MBTA's Old Colony Lines. All trains on the line run to and from Middleborough; there is currently no short turn service. A layover yard is located slightly north of the station on a freight-only branch to Taunton.Middleborough has 912 riders boarding on an average weekday - the highest total on the line, and the second highest (behind Kingston/Route 3) on the Old Colony division. Located just off Interstate 495, the station has 769 parking spaces to handle commuters from areas beyond the end of the line. With rides times to Boston approximately one hour, Middleborough is the station of choice for many long-distance commuters from Cape Cod and the South Coast (Massachusetts) region. This high ridership has spurred calls for restored service south of Middleborough.