page_title: Middleborough/Lakeville station
section_title: Former service
hierarchical_section_title: Middleborough/Lakeville station / History / Former service
caption_attribution_description: English: Early divided back postcard of Middleborough station, postmarked 1911
context_page_description: Middleborough/Lakeville is an MBTA Commuter Rail station in Lakeville, Massachusetts, just south of the Middleborough border. It is the southern terminus of the Middleborough/Lakeville Line; it also serves seasonal CapeFlyer service. 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 passenger service from 1846 to 1959 and Cape Cod and Hyannis Railroad service from 1984 to 1988. The current station opened along with the rest of the Old Colony Lines on September 29, 1997, and CapeFlyer service began in 2013. The station is planned to be closed to commuter rail service when the new Middleborough station opens in 2023 as part of South Coast Rail, though it will remain open for CapeFlyer and additional commuter parking.
context_section_description: The Fall River Railroad opened between South Braintree and Fall River in stages from June 1945 to December 1946. Middleborough station was located at Courtland Street at the west edge of the downtown area. Two other stations were located in Middleborough on the 1856-opened Cape Main Line south of downtown: Rock (also known as Rock Meeting House) at Miller Street in Rock Village, and South Middleboro at Spruce Street. Middleborough became a major railroad junction, with lines in five directions to Boston, Plymouth, Cape Cod, Fall River, and Taunton by 1892. 
  Service declined in the 20th century, with the lines to Plymouth and Fall River abandoned in the 1930s; Rock and South Middleboro stations were closed on July 17, 1938, as part of a massive station closure. Commuter service between Cape Cod and Boston via Middleborough ended on June 30, 1959. The lines north, west, and southeast from Middleborough remained in use for freight service: by the New Haven until 1969, Penn Central to 1971, Conrail to 1997, and CSX since. Freight service southeast from Middleborough was taken over by the Bay Colony Railroad shortline in 1982 and the Massachusetts Coastal Railroad in 2007, interchanging with CSX at Middleborough Yard.
caption: A 1911 postcard of Middleborough station
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