South Attleboro

South Attleboro is a commuter rail station on the Northeast Corridor located in the South Attleboro section of Attleboro, Massachusetts, served by the MBTA Commuter Rail Providence/Stoughton Line. The station, situated underneath Newport Avenue, is the MBTA's southernmost station on the line in Massachusetts, located almost exactly on the border with Rhode Island. It includes a large park-and-ride lot to serve commuters from the nearby cites of Pawtucket and Central Falls.South Attleboro averaged 1,462 inbound passengers per weekday in 2013, making it the ninth busiest station in the commuter rail system. Passenger counts have high year-to-year variation; in previous years it had been as high as third with over 2,000 riders counted.HistoryHistorically, there was no station on the site where the modern station now exists. (This is unusual; most stations opened under the MBTA have been located on the sites of former stations). The nearest stations were Hebronville, 2 miles to the east, and Pawtucket/Central Falls an equal distance to the west. Hebronville closed long before the MBTA era, while Pawtucket/Central Falls closed on February 20, 1981 when Rhode Island stopped funding commuter rail service to Providence. Commuter service returned to Providence on February 1, 1988, but the Pawtucket/Central Falls station remained closed.