North Leominster station

There is a small freight yard adjacent to the parking lot and mainline tracks on the south end of the inbound platform.

A garage opened in 2014 to nearly triple parking capacity at the station, which serves as a park-and-ride stop for Route 2 and I-190, to a total of 436 spaces.

[4] Trains ran to North Leominster for over a century under the Fitchburg Railroad and the Boston and Maine Railroad until the latter cut all service on the line past West Concord on January 18, 1965 due to insufficient subsidies from the newly formed Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.

[6] On January 13, 1980, the MBTA restored service on 37 miles of the Fitchburg Line from West Concord to Gardner, including the stop at North Leominster.

[7] Short asphalt platforms were built behind a strip mall at the location of the former depot, with pedestrian access from Main Street but only 30 parking spaces.

However, the lot quickly proved to be too small, as North Leominster serves park-and-ride commuters from as far as Orange and Athol.

[8] Originally to be completed in August 2013, the garage was delayed due to high summer heat which prevented pouring concrete.

Original station building on a 1915 postcard
1980-built low platforms, photographed in 2014
The completed garage in December 2014
Leominster Center station building in 2014