{"id":7950,"date":"2024-10-07T22:30:31","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T02:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/?p=7950"},"modified":"2024-10-07T22:30:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T02:30:31","slug":"norfolk-mbta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/2024\/10\/07\/norfolk-mbta\/","title":{"rendered":"Norfolk (MBTA)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What, you were expecting me to go all the way to the far southern fringes of the Northeast Regional’s service area? Not quite, pal! Instead, Norfolk, Massachusetts is on the to-do list for today. Let’s look at it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Translucent signage???<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Norfolk is a relatively small station serving the town of Norfolk, Massachusetts. It’s a park and ride in a small town with not a lot nearby. There’s a partly-built lifestyle center, however I didn’t look at it much. In terms of stuff near the station proper, you just have a small strip mall, a Dunks, and a church. In terms of the station itself, it’s normal, though you have 2 tracks but one side platform (track 1 isn’t complete!), a mini-high, a red dot matrix sign, and a grade crossing along with benches and wastebaskets. Not a lot exciting here. However, there IS something unusual: the Medway “T” Shuttle stops here. Is it signed? NOPE! Because what’s wayfinding?! At least you can GATRA GO if you need out! (stay tuned…)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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F40PH!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Towards Forge Park!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The platform and a MOW vehicle!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I suspect any work had to do with the 2nd track being worked on<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Red dot matrix signage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Those signals are facing the wrong way.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Shelter!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Small town vibes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The crossing from afar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sorry, no train horn! D:<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The good: It’s in a small town and has parking for people to drive in!

The bad: The GATRA bus connections could be signed…., also the fact there isn’t a 2nd platform here is just…why?!

Nearby points of interest: Not a lot…

Transit connections:
Commuter Rail (Franklin)
GATRA (Medway “T” Shuttle, GATRA GO)

Overall, yeah, I don’t have a lot to say. It works, for what it’s worth, I guess.

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

What, you were expecting me to go all the way to the far southern fringes of the Northeast Regional’s service area? Not quite, pal! Instead, Norfolk, Massachusetts is on the to-do list for today. Let’s look at it. Norfolk is a relatively small station serving the town of Norfolk, Massachusetts. It’s a park and ride … Continue reading “Norfolk (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":[6,16,5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gatra","category-massachusetts","category-mbta","category-public-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950","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=7950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8016,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950\/revisions\/8016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}