BOSTON — The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority will halt service most of on its Haverhill commuter rail line for 58 days beginning Saturday, Sept. 9, to accommodate signal system upgrades related to Automatic Train Control upgrades to positive train control.
Trains will be diverted from the Haverhill Line to the Lowell Line south of Ballardvale via the Wildcat branch, running express between Ballardvale and North Station, save for a stop at Anderson/Woburn, where they will connect with shuttle buses serving the stops that are being skipped along the Haverhill line. The shuttle buses will also connect to the transit Orange Line at Oak Grove, where passengers can travel to or from North Station.
More information on the service disruption through Nov. 5 is available here, and more on the ATC/PTC project is available here.
