{"id":7940,"date":"2025-03-03T15:35:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T19:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/?p=7940"},"modified":"2025-03-03T15:43:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T19:43:27","slug":"kingston-rte-3-mbta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/2025\/03\/03\/kingston-rte-3-mbta\/","title":{"rendered":"Kingston\/Rte. 3 (MBTA)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kingston is an Amtrak-

wait, what? this is a different Kingston? Well shit.

Kingston is an MBTA station located in the middle of an industrial park off Route 3 in, well, Kingston, Massachusetts. It’s one of the two termini for the Kingston\/Plymouth (presently just Kingston) Line, and before Plymouth was closed, was more heavily used than Plymouth. With that aside, here’s the station review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This signage has seen better days.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Kingston is a bigass park and ride station in an industrial park, located off Route 3. The platform is pretty bogstandard, with benches, wastebaskets, signage, and shelters. There’s even a kiss & ride area! Also, GATRA stops here! Yes, that’s right! About 6 times a day, the Freedom and Liberty Links stop to serve this station. GATRA’s Seaside Area InterLink (SAIL) also serves here, on the way to Marshfield and Duxbury. Neat! However, given the limited schedule (really? no Saturday bus service to here?!), just buy a fucking Uber instead. Way to go, GATRA. Also, it’s in an industrial wasteland, so land use is pretty bad overall. As a cool note though, the end-of-line layover facility is just beyond the station. However, trains do NOT sit at the station before turning around. Instead, they have to do all their brake testing in the yard before coming back. Oof. But, not a bad station. Just, not a grandiose terminus like Providence<\/a> or Wickford<\/a>, or even like Needham Heights<\/a> or Haverhill<\/a>.

*does some further research*

YOU MEAN THE STATION USED TO BE LOCATED IN DOWNTOWN KINGSTON?! WHY?! WHY THE FUCK DIDN’T THEY REACTIVATE THE PLATFORM THERE?! WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK WERE THEY SMOKING?! THERE’S NO REASON THIS STATION HAD TO BE BUILT OTHER THAN SOLELY FOR YARD ACCESS. HOLY FUCKING SHIT, THEY REALLY FUMBLED IT HARD! GOD FUCKING DAMMIT!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bye….for now.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Windmills!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Back to Boston!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bench!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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das a lot of parking<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Kiss & ride!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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DIRECTV?!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Shelter!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Oh this is OLD (is it still open?)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Unhealthy amounts of pavement?!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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CAUTION: ACTIVE RAILROAD CROSSING<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Towards Boston, but from the Marion Drive crossing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And towards the yard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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KINGSTON<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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BYE!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Oh, the sense of desolation was real here…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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GATRA!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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GET ME OUTTA HERE!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The good: It’s a bigass parking sink off Route 3! It’s also pretty busy, by extension, being the closest Commuter Rail station to not just Plymouth, but also parts of Plympton, Carver, Wareham, and pretty much the entirity of Cape Cod. (this may, however, change when the New Bedford extension opens in about 3 weeks)

The bad: Really, my main gripes here come down to three things: Land use sucks massively, and bus connections are just bad. Lastly, WHY IS THIS THE STATION, WHEN THEY HAD A PERFECTLY FUCKING USABLE STATION IN DOWNTOWN KINGSTON OFF ROUTE 3A\/SUMMER STREET?! RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH<\/span><\/em><\/strong>

Nearby points of interest: It’s an industrial park. Unless you want to walk for half an hour to the Kingston Collection, there’s nothing.

Transit connections:
Commuter Rail (Kingston)
GATRA (Freedom\/Liberty Links, SAIL)

Overall, it’s okay<\/em>. The land use sucks massively and is probably the biggest stinker on the whole line, but there’s still<\/em> worse on the system.

Rating: 5.5\/10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kingston is an Amtrak- wait, what? this is a different Kingston? Well shit. Kingston is an MBTA station located in the middle of an industrial park off Route 3 in, well, Kingston, Massachusetts. It’s one of the two termini for the Kingston\/Plymouth (presently just Kingston) Line, and before Plymouth was closed, was more heavily used … Continue reading “Kingston\/Rte. 3 (MBTA)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-massachusetts","category-mbta","category-public-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7940"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8651,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7940\/revisions\/8651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}