Middleborough/Lakeville Line

Man arrested for forcing way onto commuter-rail train after refusing request to put on mask, police say

By adamg - 9/24/21 - 12:02 pm

Transit Police report arresting a Middleborough man they say refused a request from a conductor to put a mask on, then shoved the employee and forced his way aboard by using his shoulder as a battering ram. Read more.

Police say man drives around down train gate, is promptly killed by the train the gate was down for

By adamg - 1/1/17 - 4:48 pm

Transit Police report the fatality occurred around 1:20 p.m. at a Middleboro Line crossing at Union and Water streets in Holbrook, where gates were down for an inbound train.

Suspicious package on Braintree platform halts commuter rail on two lines

By adamg - 6/24/13 - 9:04 am

Passengers on the Middleborough/Lakeville and Kingston/Plymouth lines are sitting on trains or standing on platforms around 9 a.m. waiting as officials in Braintree try to determine whether a package on a platform there is dangerous. The T was attempting to corral some buses to pick up passengers who are no longer going to get to work on time.

Apparently, some truckers didn't hear about the collision up in Maine

By adamg - 7/15/11 - 9:45 am

Close call at rail crossing

Commuting UHub correspondent Banshee took this picture this morning and filed this report:

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The Middleboro/Lakeville line kinda sucks this morning

By adamg - 11/13/09 - 9:09 am

Massive delays.

Ben Jackson, a regular, tweeted:

For the THIRD TIME THIS WEEK, the 6:58 inbound middleboro mbta train is disabled and we might have to push it into Boston.

At 8:50, Conor Yunits tweeted his train was late and the message boards were useless:

Hey mbta, remember that Brockton to South Station commuter rail train that was supposed to come 20 minutes ago? How about an update?