Needham Line

Needham Line
An outbound Needham Line train at Bellevue station in 2018
Overview
Owner	MBTA
Locale	Greater Boston
Termini	Needham Heights South Station
Stations	12
Service
Type	Commuter rail
System	MBTA Commuter Rail
Train number(s)	600–633 (weekday) 1600–1615 (Saturday) 2600–2615 (Sunday)
Operator(s)	Keolis North America
Daily ridership	4,881 (October 2022)[1]
Technical
Line length	13.7 miles (22.0 km)[2]
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
Route map Show interactive map Legend  Red   to Alewife 0.0 mi 0 km South Station  Red   to Ashmont or Braintree Fairmount Greenbush Old Colony  Orange   to Oak Grove 1.2 mi 1.9 km Back Bay  Framingham/Worcester  Massachusetts Avenue 2.2 mi 3.5 km Ruggles Roxbury Crossing Jackson Square Stony Brook Green Street 5.0 mi 8 km Forest Hills  Orange  Franklin/Foxboro Providence/Stoughton 6.4 mi 10.3 km Roslindale Village 7.2 mi 11.6 km Bellevue 7.6 mi 12.2 km Highland 8.0 mi 12.9 km West Roxbury 10.9 mi 17.5 km Hersey 12.0 mi 19.3 km Needham Junction Millis Branch 12.7 mi 20.4 km Needham Center Needham Layover 13.7 mi 22 km Needham Heights to Newton Highlands This diagram: view talk edit Show route diagram map

The Needham Line is a branch of the MBTA Commuter Rail system, running west from downtown Boston, Massachusetts through Roxbury, Jamaica Plain, Roslindale, West Roxbury, and the town of Needham. The second-shortest line of the system at just 13.7 miles (22.0 km) long, it carried 4,881 daily riders in October 2022. Unlike the MBTA's eleven other commuter rail lines, the Needham Line is not a former intercity mainline; instead, it is composed of a former branch line, a short segment of one intercity line (running in the reverse of its original direction), and a 1906-built connector.