MBTA Commuter Rail Maintenance Facility

Boston Engine Terminal
Aerial view of the facility in 2015
General information
Location	Somerville, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°22′30″N 71°4′33″W / 42.37500°N 71.07583°W / 42.37500; -71.07583
Owned by	MBTA
History
Opened	March 25, 1998[1]
Services
Preceding station MBTA Following station Porter toward Wachusett Fitchburg Line North Station Terminus West Medford toward Lowell Lowell Line North Station Terminus Haverhill Line Limited service West Medford toward Haverhill Haverhill Line Malden Center toward Haverhill Newburyport/​Rockport Line Chelsea toward Newburyport or Rockport
Location

The MBTA Commuter Rail Maintenance Facility (signed as, and often known by, its former name of Boston Engine Terminal) is the primary train maintenance repair facility for the MBTA Commuter Rail system. It is located in the Inner Belt area of Somerville, Massachusetts, near North Station in Boston. The present Commuter Rail Maintenance Facility was built from 1995 to 1998, replacing the Boston Engine Terminal which was built by the former Boston and Maine Railroad. The present facility opened on March 25, 1998.

Three small platforms on asphalt crossings serve as flag stops for MBTA employees only. One platform serves the Fitchburg Line, another the Lowell Line, and a third the Haverhill Line and Newburyport/Rockport Line (which split a mile north of the CRMF).

It was considered as a possible location for a light rail maintenance facility for the under-construction Green Line Extension.^[2] The Green Line facility was ultimately built on an industrial site just west of the Commuter Rail facility.^[3]