The Boston and Providence Railroad was built through Hyde Park in 1832–34, but a station was not immediately placed in the area, which was still largely unsettled.

[10] The New Haven built a large overhead station building adjacent to River Street around 1913, replacing the earlier depot.

[13] The overhead station structure was demolished during the 1970s, leaving just staircases from River Street leading to bare platforms to serve passengers.

The NYNH&H folded into Penn Central in 1969, who sold the line and station to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) in 1973.

[19] The 1966 Program for Mass Transportation recommended a bifurcated Orange Line, with one branch to West Roxbury or Hersey and another to Readville or Route 128 via Hyde Park.

[20] Various reports over the next two decades continued to recommend various combinations of the extensions; however, due to cost, the 1987 relocation of the Orange Line to the Southwest Corridor was terminated at Forest Hills.

The 2004 Program for Mass Transportation listed an extension to Route 128 with intermediate stops at Mount Hope, Hyde Park, and Readville at a cost of $342.8 million.

The extension was listed as low priority due to environmental issue with crossing the wetlands south of Readville, and because the corridor already had commuter rail service.