[2] When he lived at Walden Pond, Henry David Thoreau complained that the village's schedule was set by the times of arrivals and departures at the station.

[3] Although the Fitchburg Line went through a series of contractions due to funding issues in the 1960s and 1970s, service to Concord was never interrupted.

The circa-1907 express office is present just to the west and also in retail use; a freight house east of the station was demolished in 1991.

These platforms do not require alterations to the existing platforms, thus skirting federal rules requiring full accessibility renovations when stations are modified, and were intended to provide interim accessibility at lower cost pending full reconstruction.

[9] Concord is planned to be part of the second set of non-accessible stations to be modified with the temporary platforms.