View of Boston from the Red Line

The Red Line is the newest of the MBTA rapid transit lines in the Boston, Massachusetts area. Its northwestern terminal is at Alewife near Fresh Pond Parkway and Route 2 in West Cambridge, from which it passes through downtown, with transfers to the Green Line at Park Street and the Orange Line at Downtown Crossing. South of downtown it splits into two branches; one branch runs to Braintree and the other to Ashmont, with the Ashmont-Mattapan High Speed Line continuing to Mattapan. Download high resolution version (1280x960, 138 KB)View of Boston from an inbound Red Line train as it crosses the Longfellow Bridge between Kendall/MIT and Charles/MGH stations. ... Download high resolution version (1280x960, 138 KB)View of Boston from an inbound Red Line train as it crosses the Longfellow Bridge between Kendall/MIT and Charles/MGH stations. ... The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) is a quasi-governmental organization formed in 1964 that controls most bus, subway, commuter rail and ferry systems in the Boston, Massachusetts, USA area. ... Subway redirects here; for the restaurant named Subway, see Subway (restaurant). ... City nickname: Beantown, The Hub, The Athens of America Location in the state of Massachusetts Founded September 17, 1630 County Suffolk County Mayor Thomas Menino (Dem) Area  - Total  - Water 232. ... T sign and top of glass pyramid from roof-level parking deck of Alewife Station, September 2004 Alewife Station, located at the intersection of Fresh Pond Parkway and Rindge Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a local transportation hub. ... Harvard Square, May 2000 Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area in Massachusetts, United States. ... The Green Line is one of the four MBTA subway lines in the Boston, Massachusetts metro area. ... Park Street Station, Green Line platforms, December 2004 Park Street Station, Red Line platforms, January 2005 Park Street Station of the MBTA, located at the intersection Park Street and Tremont Street in Boston, is the main transfer point between the Green Line and the Red Line. ... The Orange Line is one of the four subway lines of the MBTA. It extends from Forest Hills in Jamaica Plain, Boston in the south to Oak Grove in Malden, Massachusetts in the north. ... Downtown Crossing Station of the MBTA, located at the corner of Washington Street and Summer Street and the corner of Chauncey Street and Summer Street in Boston, is the main transfer point between the Orange Line and the Red Line. ... Original configuration, with streetcar loop (later bus loop) and 1929-added busway Ashmont is a station on the rapid transit Red Line in Ashmont, Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. It opened on September 1, 1928, and is the terminal for the Red Lines Dorchester Branch. ... The Ashmont-Mattapan High Speed Line (or Mattapan-Ashmont Line, or just the M Line) is considered part of the MBTAs Red Line, even though it uses different equipment (trolleys) and passengers have to change at Ashmont Station. ...

History

The oldest right-of-way on the Red Line is south of South Boston, where the Ashmont Branch was built on the path of the former Shawmut Branch Railroad. That railroad was incorporated in 1870, taken over by the Old Colony Railroad, and opened in 1872 as an alternate route between the Old Colony's main line at Harrison Square and the Dorchester and Milton Branch Railroad, which branched from the Old Colony at Neponset and ran west to Mattapan. Right-of-way is a legal term which may have any of several meanings: priority at a crossing, or in traffic. ... 1870 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1872 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

The Red Line was the last of the four lines to begin construction, with the Cambridge Tunnel opening from Eliot Yard and Harvard to Park Street on the Tremont Street Subway on March 23, 1912. At Harvard, a prepayment station was provided for easy transfer to streetcar routes operating in a separate tunnel (now the Harvard Bus Tunnel). The tunnel ran from Harvard under Massachusetts Avenue and Main Street to the Longfellow Bridge, where it ran along the middle of the bridge (opened in 1906). On the Boston side of the bridge, the line became elevated, rising to go over Charles Circle and into a tunnel through Beacon Hill to Park Street. Extensions (built as the Dorchester Tunnel) to Washington Street and South Station opened on April 4, 1915 and December 3, 1916, with transfers to the Washington Street Tunnel and Atlantic Avenue Elevated respectively. Further extensions opened to Broadway on December 15, 1917 and Andrew on June 29, 1918, both prepayment stations for streetcar transfer. The Broadway station included an upper level with its own tunnel for streetcars, which was abandoned in 1919 due to most lines being truncated to Andrew. The upper level has since been incorporated into the mezzanine. Harvard Station, September 2004 Harvard Station, located at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and JFK Street, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a local transportation hub. ... Park Street Station, Green Line platforms, December 2004 Park Street Station, Red Line platforms, January 2005 Park Street Station of the MBTA, located at the intersection Park Street and Tremont Street in Boston, is the main transfer point between the Green Line and the Red Line. ... March 23 is the 82nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (83rd in Leap years). ... 1912 is a leap year starting on Monday. ... Taken late on a February 2002 afternoon, the MBTAs Red line trains crossing at rush hour with the Beacon Hill and the Boston skyline in the distance. ... 1906 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Subway redirects here; for the restaurant named Subway, see Subway (restaurant). ... South Station front entrance. ... April 4 is the 94th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (95th in leap years). ... 1915 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... December 3 is the 337th (in leap years the 338th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1916 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) Events January-February January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ... The Atlantic Avenue Elevated outside South Station Map of the Atlantic Avenue Elevated (at right) and related lines The Atlantic Avenue Elevated was an elevated railway around the east side of downtown Boston, Massachusetts, providing a second route for the Boston Elevated Railways Main Line (now the Orange Line... December 15 is the 349th day of the year (350th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1917 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 185 days remaining. ... 1918 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1919 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... A mezzanine is an intermediate floor between main floors of a building; it is often low-ceilinged, and often projects in the form of a balcony. ...

Old Colony and later New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad passenger service operated on the Shawmut Branch until September 4, 1926. [1] (http://world.nycsubway.org/us/boston/red/mbta-red-savinhill.html) The MBTA bought the branch and opened the first phase of the Dorchester Extension to Fields Corner. This extension ran south from Andrew and turned southeast to surface and run along the west side of the Old Colony Railroad mainline in a depressed right-of-way. Surface stations were built at Columbia and Savin Hill, at the site of Old Colony stations. No station was built at the former junction of the Old Colony main line with the Shawmut Branch, where the Old Colony's Harrison Square station had been operated, because it was very close to Fields Corner. The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (AAR reporting mark NH) was a railroad that operated in the northeast United States. ... September 4 is the 247th day of the year (248th in leap years). ... 1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Original configuration, with streetcar loop (later bus loop) and separate busway Fields Corner is a station on the rapid transit Red Line at Fields Corner in Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. It opened on November 5, 1927, serving as the south end of the line for about a year. ...

The rest of the extension opened to Ashmont and Codman Yard on September 1, 1928, and included a station - Shawmut - where there had been no Old Colony station. The first phase of the Ashmont-Mattapan High Speed Line opened on August 26, 1929, using the rest of the Shawmut Branch right-of-way, including the Cedar Grove station, and part of the old Dorchester and Milton Branch. Original configuration, with streetcar loop (later bus loop) and 1929-added busway Ashmont is a station on the rapid transit Red Line in Ashmont, Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. It opened on September 1, 1928, and is the terminal for the Red Lines Dorchester Branch. ... September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years). ... 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Ashmont-Mattapan High Speed Line (or Mattapan-Ashmont Line, or just the M Line) is considered part of the MBTAs Red Line, even though it uses different equipment (trolleys) and passengers have to change at Ashmont Station. ... August 26 is the 238th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (239th in leap years). ... 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

The color red was assigned on August 26, 1965 to what had been called the Cambridge-Dorchester Tunnel and marked on maps as route 1. The color was chosen because the line ended at Harvard University, whose school color is crimson, a shade of red. August 26 is the 238th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (239th in leap years). ... 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... In early 2005 the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority considered adding 15 key bus routes to its subway maps. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... Crimson - A deep red color tinged with blue; also, red color in general; deep red color. ...

The first section of the South Shore Line opened on September 1, 1971. This line branched from the original line at a flying junction north of Columbia and ran along the west side of the Old Colony right-of-way (since reduced to one track), crossing to the east side north of Savin Hill. Its northernmost station was North Quincy, with two others at Wollaston and Quincy Center. The rest of the line, the Braintree Extension to Braintree, opened March 22, 1980, and the intermediate station at Quincy Adams opened on September 10, 1983. September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years). ... 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... In U.S. railroad practice, a flying junction is a track configuration in which merging or crossing railroad lines provide track connections with each other without requiring trains to cross over in front of opposing traffic. ... March 22 is the 81st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (82nd in Leap years). ... 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... September 10 is the 253rd day of the year (254th in leap years). ... 1983 is an integer and composite number that represents a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The first part of the Northwest Extension, the relocation of Harvard station, was finished on September 6, 1983. During construction, several temporary stations were built at Harvard Square. The old Eliot Yard was demolished; Harvard's Kennedy School of Government now sits inside the retaining walls built for the railyard. Subsequent extensions to Davis on December 8, 1984 and Alewife on March 30, 1985 brought the Red Line to its current extent. A platform on the South Shore Line opened at JFK/UMass (formerly Columbia) on December 14, 1988. Harvard Station, September 2004 Harvard Station, located at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and JFK Street, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a local transportation hub. ... September 6 is the 249th day of the year (250th in leap years). ... 1983 is an integer and composite number that represents a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The John F. Kennedy School of Government is a school within Harvard University that offers graduate degrees in public policy and public administration, as well as conducting research in various subjects relating to politics and government. ... Davis Square Station is located at the intersection of Holland Street, Elm Street, and College Avenue, in Somerville. ... December 8 is the 342nd day (343rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... T sign and top of glass pyramid from roof-level parking deck of Alewife Station, September 2004 Alewife Station, located at the intersection of Fresh Pond Parkway and Rindge Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a local transportation hub. ... March 30 is the 89th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (90th in Leap years). ... 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Platforms on older stations were lengthened in the late 1980s to allow six-car trains, which first ran January 21, 1988. During the expansion, the MBTA invested in an Arts on the line public art program. Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... January 21 is the 21st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Public art is art that is exposed in a public space, either an outdoor location or in a publicly accessible building. ...

In 1968, letters were assigned to the south branches - "A" for Quincy (planned to extend to South Braintree) and "C" for Ashmont. "B" was probably reserved for a planned branch from Braintree to Brockton. As new rollsigns were made, this lettering was phased out. In 1994, new electronic signs included a different labeling - "A" for Ashmont, "B" for Braintree and "C" for Alewife. [2]  (http://groups-beta.google.com/group/misc.transport.urban-transit/browse_frm/thread/a39e96e4ecc836ca/a9a23545f09a35c6) 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... A rollsign on the MBTA Red Line in Boston. ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...

Accessibility

Most, but not all, Red Line stations are wheelchair accessible. See also MBTA accessibility. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority accessibility As is true for most mass transit systems, much of the Boston subway and commuter rail lines were built before wheelchair access was a requirement. ...

Rolling stock

Red Line trains consist of mated pairs of Electrical Multiple Unit cars powered from a 600 VDC third rail. Two basic types of cars are in use today: A multiple unit is a passenger train whose carriages have their own motors, either diesel (DMUs) or electric (EMUs), and do not need to be hauled by a locomotive. ... This a list of the voltages, etc. ... Third rail at Bostons South Station A third rail is a method of providing electricity to power a railroad, typically a mass transit system. ...

Aluminium-bodied Red Line cars at Harvard.

• Three series of older aluminum-bodied cars built by Pullman-Standard and United Technologies. The older two series of this batch, the 01500 and 01600 series, were built by Pullman in 1969-1970. The 1700 series was built by UTDC in 1988. These cars seat 62 to 64 customers and approximately 132 cars are in active service. All cars in these series are painted white with red trim and use manually-operated exterior signs.

All three groups of these older cars (units 1500 through 1757) use traditional DC traction motors with electromechanical controls manufactured by Westinghouse and can inter-operate among the three series. The 1500 and 1700 series cars could operate as singletons, but in practice, are always operated as mated pairs. The 1600 series could only operate as mated pairs.

A Bombardier car at Harvard.

• One series of newer stainless steel-bodied cars built built by Bombardier from components manufactured in Canada and assembled in Barre, Vermont. These cars seat 50 passengers and 86 cars are in active service. An automatic voice synthesis system provides station announcements; the announcements are also displayed on LED signs in each car. Train operation is automated. These cars are stainless steel with red trim and use yellow LCD exterior signs.

Known as the 1800 series, they were built in 1993-1994. These newer cars (units 1800 through 1885) use modern AC traction motors with solid state controls manufactured by General Electric, can only operate as mated pairs, and can not interoperate with the older three series of cars.

Rolling stock is stored and maintained at the Cabot Yard, near the Broadway station in South Boston. The connection to this yard is at the junction where the two branches split. General Name, Symbol, Number aluminium, Al, 13 Chemical series poor metals Group, Period, Block 13 (IIIA), 3, p Density, Hardness 2700 kg/m3, 2. ... Harvard Station, September 2004 Harvard Station, located at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and JFK Street, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a local transportation hub. ... General Name, Symbol, Number aluminium, Al, 13 Chemical series poor metals Group, Period, Block 13 (IIIA), 3, p Density, Hardness 2700 kg/m3, 2. ... United Technologies Corporation (UTC) (NYSE: UTX) is a major multinational corporation based in Hartford, Connecticut. ... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... DC or dc may stand for: Dilip Chhabria, an exclusive Indian car designer Da capo, a musical term Democrazia Cristiana, a political party in Italy developed country (in the CIA World Factbook) Direct current (in electricity) Doctor of Chiropractic, a medical profession Axiom of dependent choice, in set theory (mathematics... Traction motor typically refers to those motors that are used to power the driving wheels of a railroad locomotive, electrical multi-unit train (such as a subway or light rail vehicle train), or a tram. ... In engineering, electromechanical devices are those that combine electrical and mechanical parts. ... Westinghouse could refer to: George Westinghouse Westinghouse Electric Corporation. ... Harvard Station, September 2004 Harvard Station, located at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and JFK Street, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a local transportation hub. ... In metallurgy, stainless steel is defined1 as a ferrous alloy with a minimum of 10. ... Bombardier Inc. ... Barre is the name of a Town and a City in Vermont: Barre (town), Vermont Barre (city), Vermont This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. ... Various light-emitting diodes (5 mm reds, 3 mm greens and yellows) A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor device that emits incoherent monochromatic light when electrically biased in the forward direction. ... Reflective twisted nematic liquid crystal display. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003) Events Media:January January 1 - Czechoslovakia divides. ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... An alternating current (AC) is an electrical current, where the magnitude and direction of the current varies cyclically, as opposed to direct current, where the direction of the current stays constant. ... In physics, the solid state is one of the three phases of matter (solid, liquid, and gas). ... The General Electric Company, or GE, (NYSE: GE) is a multinational technology and services company. ... South Boston is a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, located south of the Fort Point Channel and abutting Dorchester Bay. ...

Culture and trivia

• In 1944, Tom Lehrer wrote a song called Boston, (a parody of the song Mother) whose lyrics list stops on the Red Line beginning with "H" is for my alma mater, Hahvid..., and ending with Put them all together, they spell...HCKC...PW...Which is just about what Boston means to me!

• The tunnels of the Red Line have a cameo in the H. P. Lovecraft story At the Mountains of Madness, in which a character rattles off the stops from South Station to Harvard to calm himself as a nameless horror chases him through a cave in Antarctica.

• At the Harvard station (and nowhere else on the main branch of the Red Line), the electronic announcer on the newer (Bombardier-built) trains makes a special announcement: "No smoking, please!"

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Station listing

Main line

A rollsign in a Red Line car. This selection was only used in late 1984 and early 1985, while the Red Line was being expanded towards Alewife; during that time, Davis was the end of the line. However, this photo was taken in 2005, and was thus incorrect.

Station	Location	Time to Park Street	Opened	Transfers and notes
Alewife	Alewife Brook Parkway, Cambridge	20 minutes	March 30, 1985
Davis	Davis Square, Somerville		December 8, 1984
Porter	Porter Square, Cambridge		December 8, 1984	MBTA Commuter Rail Fitchburg Line
Stadium	Harvard Stadium, Cambridge		October 26, 1912	Only used during Harvard football games, last known use November 18, 1967
Harvard/Brattle	Harvard Square, Cambridge		March 24, 1979	Closed September 1, 1983, supplemented Harvard during construction of the Alewife extension
Harvard	Harvard Square, Cambridge	11 minutes (sign said 8)	September 6, 1983	Original station opened March 23, 1912 and closed January 30, 1981, Harvard/Holyoke opened January 31, 1981 and closed September 1, 1983
Central	Central Square, Cambridge	(sign said 5)	March 23, 1912
Kendall/MIT	Kendall Square, Cambridge	4 minutes (sign said 3)	March 23, 1912	originally Kendall until August 6, 1978, named Cambridge Center/MIT between December 2, 1982 and June 25, 1985
Charles/MGH	Cambridge and Charles Streets, Boston		February 27, 1932	originally Charles until December 1973
Park Street	Park, Tremont, and Winter Streets, Boston	0 minutes	March 23, 1912	Green Line originally Park Street Under
Downtown Crossing	Summer, Washington, and Winter Streets, Boston		April 4, 1915	Orange Line and Silver Line Phase I originally Washington until May 3, 1987
South Station	Dewey Square, Boston	3 minutes	December 3, 1916	Silver Line Phase II and MBTA Commuter Rail south side lines Had a transfer to the Atlantic Avenue Elevated
Broadway	Broadway and Dorchester Avenue, South Boston		December 15, 1917
Andrew	Andrew Square, South Boston		June 29, 1918
North of JFK/UMass, the Red Line surfaces and separates into two branches which operate on separate platforms at JFK/UMass. Just south of the station, the two branches divide as described below.
JFK/UMass	Columbia Road and Morrissey Boulevard, Dorchester	10 minutes	November 5, 1927	MBTA Commuter Rail Plymouth/Kingston Line and Middleborough/Lakeville Line originally Columbia until December 1, 1982, Braintree branch platform opened December 14, 1988 was called Crescent Avenue as an Old Colony Railroad station

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The Silver Line is the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authoritys (MBTAs) sole Bus Rapid Transit Line, running from Dudley Square in Roxbury, Massachusetts to downtown Boston, Massachusetts, with planned extensions to South Boston and Logan Airport in East Boston. ... May 3 is the 123rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (124th in leap years). ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... I add the following in case the above is ineffective or incompletely effective. ... South Station front entrance. ... December 3 is the 337th (in leap years the 338th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1916 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) Events January-February January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ... 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Ashmont Branch

Diverging from JFK/UMass:

Station	Location	Time to Park Street	Opened	Transfers and notes
Savin Hill	Savin Hill Avenue and Sidney Street		November 5, 1927	was an Old Colony Railroad station
Harrison Square				former split and transfer station between the Old Colony Railroad mainline and the Shawmut Branch Railroad, never a rapid transit station
Fields Corner	Charles Street and Dorchester Avenue	15 minutes	November 5, 1927	was a Shawmut Branch Railroad station
Shawmut	Dayton Street		September 1, 1928
Ashmont	Ashmont Street and Dorchester Avenue	19 minutes	September 1, 1928	Continuing service to Mattapan via the 10-minute Ashmont-Mattapan High Speed Line (opened December 21, 1929) was a Shawmut Branch Railroad station Cedar Grove station on the Shawmut Branch Railroad is now a station on the Mattapan Line, after which the line merges with the former Dorchester and Milton Branch Railroad right-of-way

November 5 is the 309th day of the year (310th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 56 days remaining. ... 1927 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Original configuration, with streetcar loop (later bus loop) and separate busway Fields Corner is a station on the rapid transit Red Line at Fields Corner in Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. It opened on November 5, 1927, serving as the south end of the line for about a year. ... November 5 is the 309th day of the year (310th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 56 days remaining. ... 1927 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years). ... 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... I add the following in case the above is ineffective or incompletely effective. ... Original configuration, with streetcar loop (later bus loop) and 1929-added busway Ashmont is a station on the rapid transit Red Line in Ashmont, Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. It opened on September 1, 1928, and is the terminal for the Red Lines Dorchester Branch. ... September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years). ... 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Ashmont-Mattapan High Speed Line (or Mattapan-Ashmont Line, or just the M Line) is considered part of the MBTAs Red Line, even though it uses different equipment (trolleys) and passengers have to change at Ashmont Station. ... December 21 is the 355th day of the year (356th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Braintree Branch

Diverging from JFK/UMass:

Station	Location	Time to Park Street	Opened	Transfers and notes
North Quincy	East Squantum and Hancock Streets, Quincy	19 minutes	September 1, 1971
Wollaston	Newport Avenue and Beale Street, Quincy		September 1, 1971
Quincy Center	Hancock and Washington Streets, Quincy	24 minutes	September 1, 1971	MBTA Commuter Rail Plymouth/Kingston Line and Middleborough/Lakeville Line
Quincy Adams	Burgin Parkway and Centre Street, Quincy		September 10, 1983
Braintree	Ivory and Union Streets, Braintree	30 minutes	March 22, 1980	MBTA Commuter Rail Plymouth/Kingston Line and Middleborough/Lakeville Line

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T sign and top of glass pyramid from roof-level parking deck of Alewife Station, September 2004 Alewife Station, located at the intersection of Fresh Pond Parkway and Rindge Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a local transportation hub. ... Original configuration, with streetcar loop (later bus loop) and 1929-added busway Ashmont is a station on the rapid transit Red Line in Ashmont, Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. It opened on September 1, 1928, and is the terminal for the Red Lines Dorchester Branch. ... The Ashmont-Mattapan High Speed Line (or Mattapan-Ashmont Line, or just the M Line) is considered part of the MBTAs Red Line, even though it uses different equipment (trolleys) and passengers have to change at Ashmont Station. ... Original configuration, with streetcar loop (later bus loop) and 1929-added busway Ashmont is a station on the rapid transit Red Line in Ashmont, Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. 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Oak Grove Station is an MBTA station on the Orange Line, located in the northern part of Malden, Massachusetts near the intersection of Winter Street and Main Street. ... Forest Hills Station an MBTA station on the Orange Line, located in the southern part of Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts between the intersection of Washington Street and Hyde Park Avenue and the intersection of Center Street and South Street. ... The Atlantic Avenue Elevated outside South Station Map of the Atlantic Avenue Elevated (at right) and related lines The Atlantic Avenue Elevated was an elevated railway around the east side of downtown Boston, Massachusetts, providing a second route for the Boston Elevated Railways Main Line (now the Orange Line... A Blue Line train at the newly-renovated Logan Airport station. ... The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority operates a large number of bus lines in the greater Boston area. ... 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Lines remaining in 1940 As in many large cities, a large number of streetcar lines once existed in Boston, Massachusetts, USA and its inner suburbs. ... Two trackless trolleys at Cambridge Common There are currently four trackless trolley (trolleybus) routes in the Boston, Massachusetts area, all run by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) in the Harvard Square area, and all former streetcar lines (the last four not connected to the Tremont Street Subway to survive). ... In early 2005 the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority considered adding 15 key bus routes to its subway maps. ... The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) operates local buses in East Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, connecting to the Blue Line at Maverick or Wood Island. ... The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority operates a number of buses in South Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, most of them connecting to the Red Line at Andrew, Broadway or South Station. ... 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External links

• MBTA - Red Line (http://www.mbta.com/traveling_t/schedules_subway_redline.asp)
• nycsubway.org - MBTA Red Line (http://world.nycsubway.org/us/boston/red/index.html)

References

• Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district (http://members.aol.com/eddanamta/busfiles/contents.pdf) (PDF)
• Railroad History Database (http://www.earlpleasants.com/search_1.asp)