Lansdowne station (MBTA)

Lansdowne
Fenway Center construction over Lansdowne station in July 2019
General information
Location	85 Brookline Avenue Boston, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°20′51″N 71°06′02″W / 42.3476°N 71.1006°W / 42.3476; -71.1006
Line(s)	Worcester Main Line
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	MBTA bus: 8, 19, 60, 65 At Kenmore: Green Line, 57
Construction
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	1A
History
Opened	April 29, 1988 (1988-04-29)[1]
Rebuilt	March 10, 2014 (2014-03-10)[2]
Previous names	Yawkey
Passengers
2018	1,195 (weekday average boardings)[3]
Services
Preceding station MBTA Following station Boston Landing toward Worcester Framingham/​Worcester Line Back Bay toward South Station
Location

Lansdowne station (formerly Yawkey station) is an MBTA Commuter Rail station in Boston, Massachusetts. It serves the Framingham/Worcester Line. Lansdowne is located next to the Massachusetts Turnpike in the Fenway–Kenmore neighborhood near Kenmore Square, below grade between Beacon Street and Brookline Avenue.

The station, originally named after former Boston Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey, opened as an infill station in 1988, for limited service to baseball games at Fenway Park. Regular commuter service began in 2001 for riders headed to Boston University, Kenmore Square, and the Longwood Medical and Academic Area. Inbound and outbound trains formerly shared a single two-car platform on the inbound track, requiring passengers to embark or debark from the front two cars of outbound trains or the rear two cars of inbound trains.

In 2012, work began on a new, fully accessible station, including two longer high-level platforms and an overhead pedestrian bridge. Passengers boarded from the east end of the new station from June 2013 until March 10, 2014; after delays, it opened fully that day. The new station is served by all Worcester Line trains, which was expected to increase ridership from 585 total daily boardings and alightings to 937. By a 2018 count, there were 2,491 daily (1,195 boardings and 1,296 alightings).^[3] The Fenway Center air rights development, which is partially over the station, added a pedestrian deck connecting the station to Beacon Street.

The station was renamed Lansdowne (after nearby Lansdowne Street) effective April 8, 2019, following the May 2018 renaming of Yawkey Way back to Jersey Street.