West Gloucester is a passenger rail station on MBTA's Newburyport/Rockport Line. located on Essex Avenue in West Gloucester, Massachusetts. The station meets the ADA Guidelines for Handicap Accessibility. It also contains a 24-car lot for parking. (On weekdays, a fee of 4.00 USD is charged.) The station has a long outbound platform, and a relatively short inbound platform. This is to allow fast unloading from many cars during the evening rush hour, and loading from 1 or 2 doors during the morning rush hour. There is a bench and shelter on the inbound side, where there is neither on the outbound side. The layout and design shows that this station was built with the intent that the vast majority of people using this station commute to Boston or other points south. The station is handicap accessible, with car-length high-level platforms at the north end of each platform.
Famous quotes containing the word west:
“The very nursery tales of this generation were the nursery tales of primeval races. They migrate from east to west, and again from west to east; now expanded into the “tale divine” of bards, now shrunk into a popular rhyme.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)