Needham Center (MBTA station)
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Needham Center is the penultimate MBTA Commuter Rail
MBTA Commuter Rail
The MBTA Commuter Rail serves as the regional rail arm of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, in the United States. It is operated under contract by the Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad Company a joint partnership of Veolia Transportation, Bombardier Transportation and Alternate...

 station serving the Needham Line
Needham Line
The Needham Line is a branch of the MBTA Commuter Rail system, running west from downtown Boston, Massachusetts through the Boston neighborhoods ofRoxbury,Jamaica Plain,Roslindale,West Roxbury, and the town ofNeedham....

. It was originally built in 1870 (although some sources claim it was built in 1887), and was much larger than it is today. Needham Center Station was built on a line that originally ran between Medfield Junction
Medfield Junction
Medfield Junction was located in Medfield, Massachusetts. Medfield Junction was part of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. The two lines that crossed at Medfield Junction was part of New Haven's Old Colony Northern Division...

 and what is today Newton Highlands station
Newton Highlands (MBTA station)
Newton Highlands is a surface-level rapid transit station located in Newton, Massachusetts on the Green Line "D" Branch of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. Like the other surface level stations on the "D" Branch, it opened on July 4, 1959....

 on the "D" Branch of the MBTA Green Line.

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