The Fitchburg Railroad opened from Waltham to Concord on June 17, 1844.[3] A flag stop was open at the South Street crossing by 1852.[4] It was named Roberts Crossing (later shortened to Roberts) after John Roberts, who operated a nearby paper mill.[5][6][7]
New stations at Roberts and nearby Stony Brook were built in 1887.[8][9] The railroad opened a roundhouse at Roberts in early 1893, replacing an older facility in Waltham.[10] The Boston and Maine Railroad (B&M) closed the station building in 1937, but trains continued to stop at the platform.[11][12]
In 1977 or 1978, the station was renamed Brandeis–Roberts (later styled Brandeis/Roberts) to denote the growing university.[13][14] A $70,000 renovation of the station was completed on December 18, 1986.[15] Accessible mini-high platforms were installed either in that renovation or around 1991.[16][17]
^Humphrey, Thomas J.; Clark, Norton D. (1985). Boston's Commuter Rail: The First 150 Years. Boston Street Railway Association. pp. 87, 88. ISBN9780685412947.
^MBTA System Route Map, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, Spring–Summer 1977 – via Wikimedia Commons
^MBTA System Route Map, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, 1978 – via Wikimedia Commons
^Sanborn, George M. (1992). A Chronicle of the Boston Transit System. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. Archived from the original on 2019-11-27. Retrieved 2019-10-17 – via Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
^Operations Directorate Planning Division (November 1990). "Ridership and Service Statistics" (3 ed.). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. pp. 1–5 – via Internet Archive.
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