page_title: Oak Grove station
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Oak Grove station / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Oak Grove station has signs to the "outbound" platform - currently the Haverhill/Reading Line platform used only during service disruptions - as the Haymarket North Extension was originally planned to extend as far as Reading.
context_page_description: Oak Grove is a rapid transit station in Malden, Massachusetts. It serves the MBTA Orange Line, and located in northern Malden just south of the Melrose border. The northern terminus of the Orange Line, Oak Grove has a 788-space park and ride lot serving nearby residential communities. It is also served by four MBTA bus routes and has secure cages for bicycle storage. Like all Orange Line stations, Oak Grove is accessible.
  Oak Grove has a single platform for the Haverhill Line that passes through the station. Commuter rail trains, however, are only stopped when service disruptions on the Orange Line or the inner Haverhill Line create the need for a transfer point.
caption: Entrance to the now-closed commuter rail platform from the fare mezzanine. The sign labels it as the outbound Orange Line platform, as the inner Haverhill Line was intended to be turned into an extension of the Orange Line to Reading.
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