Beaver Brook station

Beaver Brook is a former MBTA Commuter Rail station in Waltham, Massachusetts. It served the Fitchburg Line. It was located near U.S. [Route 20|Main Street] east of the center of town, and was named after a nearby brook of the same name.

History

The grade crossing of Main Street at the station was proposed for elimination in 1913 and 1923; it was finally replaced by a bridge slightly to the east in 1935–36 – the first grade crossing elimination conducted as a Works Progress Administration project.
In December 1958, Beaver Brook was one of eleven stations – four commuter rail stations in Waltham and Weston, and seven stops west of Fitchburg – on the Fitchburg Route proposed for closure. Stony Brook in Weston and the seven western stations were closed on June 14, 1959; limited service continued to,, and Beaver Brook.
The station was closed on May 30, 1978, along with Clematis Brook station on the Fitchburg Line and Winchester Highlands station on the Lowell Line. All three stops served only rush hour trains at the time of their closing.