[7] The wood-framed building was moved half a mile to the east in 1889 (where it still stands, in use as a restaurant), when H. H. Richardson's successors Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge designed a stone Richardsonian Romanesque station for the Boston & Albany Railroad (B&A), which had taken over the B&W.

[6] The 1889-built depot was demolished around 1962 to make room for a post office; only bare asphalt platforms remained.

[8] Amtrak began stopping the daily Bay State at Wellesley and Newtonville on January 16, 1972.

[9] The Bay State was discontinued on March 1, 1975; when the Lake Shore Limited was introduced that October, it did not stop at Wellesley.

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.