{{Short description|Proposed railway station in Raynham, Massachusetts}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Use American English|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox station | style=MBTA | name=Raynham Place | image=Proposed Raynham Place station location, June 2017.JPG | image_caption=Site of the proposed station photographed in 2017 | address=Broadway (Route 138) | borough=Raynham, Massachusetts | coordinates={{coord|41|58|48.04|N|71|4|31.53|W|type:railwaystation_region:US-MA |display=inline,title}} | line=Dighton and Somerset Railroad | other= | platform=1 island platform (proposed) | tracks=2 (proposed) | parking=432 spaces | bicycle= | opened= | opening=2030 (proposed) | closed= | rebuilt= | accessible=Yes | code= | owned= | zone= | former= | passengers= | pass_year= | other_services_header = Former services at Raynham station | other_services_collapsible = yes | other_services = {{Adjacent stations|system=New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad |line1=New Bedford|left1=Whittenton|right1=Easton|to-left1=New Bedford|to-right1=Boston |line2=Fall River|left2=Whittenton|right2=Easton|to-left2=Fall River|to-right2=Boston }} | other_services2_header=Proposed services | other_services2_collapsible = yes | other_services2={{Adjacent stations|system=MBTA|line=South Coast Rail|left=Taunton|right=Easton Village|note-mid=Phase 2}} | mapframe = yes | mapframe-zoom = 12 | mapframe-marker-color = #{{rcr|MBTA|Rail}} | mapframe-marker = rail }}
'''Raynham Place station''' (called '''Raynham Park''' in some documents)<!-- March 2017 NPC, the latest official document, says Place--> is a proposed MBTA Commuter Rail station in Raynham, Massachusetts. Under current plans, it would be constructed behind the Raynham Park racing center north of downtown Raynham and open in 2030 as part of the second phase of the South Coast Rail project.<ref name=npc>{{cite web |url=http://www.massdot.state.ma.us/Portals/41/Docs/NPC_2017Mar.pdf |title=Notice of Project Change |publisher=Massachusetts Department of Transportation |date=March 15, 2017 |access-date=August 19, 2017 |archive-date=April 18, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170418083248/http://www.massdot.state.ma.us/Portals/41/Docs/NPC_2017Mar.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==History== thumb|left|Raynham station, seen here in 1923, was located two miles south of the new proposed station The Dighton and Somerset Railroad opened through Raynham in 1866.<ref name=sne>{{cite book |title=The Rail Lines of Southern New England |last=Karr |first=Ronald Dale |publisher=Branch Line Press |year=1995 |isbn=0942147022 |page=324}}</ref> '''Raynham''' station was located in the village of North Raynham where the line crossed Broadway.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wardmaps.com/viewasset.php?aid=5954 |title=Atlas Plate No. 14 |work=Atlas of Massachusetts |year=1891 |publisher=Walker Lithograph & Publishing Co. |via=Ward Maps}}</ref> In 1882, the Old Colony Railroad opened the Whittenton Branch Branch from the station to Whittenton Junction, allowing trains to use Taunton Central station instead of Dean Street station. Service was gradually rerouted onto the new branch; Raynham ceased to be a junction in 1932 when rails were removed between the station and Dean Street.<ref name=sne /> The station itself closed between 1930 and 1935.<ref>{{cite book |title=Time Tables |title-link=:commons:File:1935 NYNH&H system timetable.pdf |date=January 13, 1935 |page=28 |publisher=New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad |via=Wikimedia Commons}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Time Tables: Boston, Middleborough, Provincetown, Plymouth, North Easton, Taunton, New Bedford, Newport |title-link=:commons:File:1930 NYNH&H southeastern Massachusetts timetable.pdf |date=June 9, 1930 |page=2 |publisher=New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad |via=Wikimedia Commons}}</ref> New Haven Railroad passenger service through Raynham ended in 1938 as part of the 88 stations case, then resumed from 1950 to 1958.<ref name=150years>{{cite book |title=Boston's Commuter Rail: The First 150 Years |last1=Humphrey |first1=Thomas J.|last2=Clark |first2=Norton D. |publisher=Boston Street Railway Association |year=1985 |pages=34, 35}}</ref>
A new MBTA Commuter Rail station, Raynham Place, is proposed to be built by 2030 as part of the second phase of the South Coast Rail project.<ref name=npc /> An 800-foot-long high-level island platform serving two tracks would be constructed next to an access road behind the Raynham Park racing center, two miles north of the former station site.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nae.usace.army.mil/Portals/74/docs/topics/SouthCoastRail/VolII/3AlternativesFigures.pdf |work=Volume II: FEIS/FEIR Figures Final Environmental Impact Statement/Final Environmental Impact Report on the South Coast Rail Project proposed by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation |title=Figure 3.2-24 Raynham Park Station Conceptual Design |date=August 2013 |publisher=U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New England District}}</ref> Current plans have a pedestrian bridge crossing the tracks from the middle of the platform; a previous design placed the bridge at the north end of the platform.<ref>{{cite web |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007030520/http://www.southcoastrail.com/downloads/Raynham_Place_Station_Layout.pdf |archivedate=October 7, 2011 |url=http://www.southcoastrail.com/downloads/Raynham_Place_Station_Layout.pdf |title=Raynham Place Rail Alternative |publisher=Massachusetts Department of Transportation |date=February 11, 2010}}</ref> {{clear left}}
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Category:MBTA Commuter Rail stations in Bristol County, Massachusetts Category:Raynham, Massachusetts Category:Railway stations scheduled to open in 2030 Category:Proposed MBTA Commuter Rail stations