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  • Thumbnail for Great Molasses Flood
    panels of the burst tank against the girders of the adjacent Boston Elevated Railway's Atlantic Avenue structure and tip a streetcar momentarily off...
    31 KB (3,230 words) - 00:23, 27 June 2024
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    The Causeway Street elevated was an elevated section of the MBTA Green Line light rail system in Boston, located in the area near North Station. It was...
    10 KB (969 words) - 13:31, 14 February 2024
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    Board of Public Trustees of the Boston Elevated Railway Company for the Year Ended December 31, 1939. Boston Elevated Railway. 1940. p. 13 – via Internet...
    32 KB (3,036 words) - 09:07, 13 June 2024
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    and Boston Street Railway originally ran into downtown Boston via the Chelsea Bridge and Warren Bridge, running over tracks of the Boston Elevated Railway...
    10 KB (1,029 words) - 15:57, 19 November 2023
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    elevated railways, in which case some are referred to as el trains - short for "elevated". Unlike buses or trams, rapid transit systems are railways,...
    86 KB (9,185 words) - 13:37, 30 June 2024
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    The MTA purchased and took over subway, elevated, streetcar, and bus operations from the Boston Elevated Railway in 1947. In the 1950s, the MTA ran new...
    120 KB (12,833 words) - 02:12, 8 July 2024
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    build Early engineering for elevated highways owes much to early elevated railway design, which preceded them. Elevated highways were first used to:...
    13 KB (1,706 words) - 12:42, 13 May 2023
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    times through congested Copley Square. Ownership passed from the Boston Elevated Railway to the Metropolitan Transit Authority in 1947, and to the MBTA...
    85 KB (8,619 words) - 23:33, 12 June 2024
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    Forest Hills station (MBTA) (category Railway stations in Boston)
    Arborway Yard in 1924) in 1895.: 34  The West End was acquired by the Boston Elevated Railway (BERy) in 1897.: 35  The line on South Street was extended to Forest...
    27 KB (2,580 words) - 06:22, 27 June 2024
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    that created the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) from the Boston Elevated Railway established four immediate projects for the new agency: extension...
    112 KB (11,101 words) - 19:09, 3 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ashmont–Mattapan High-Speed Line
    trains from Boston to Ashmont onwards to Mattapan, but the cost of full-scale subway service was apparently too high for the Boston Elevated Railway which then...
    25 KB (2,420 words) - 13:03, 15 June 2024
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    Everett station (MBTA) (category Railway stations in the United States opened in 1919)
    1910s and 1920s, the Boston Elevated Railway (BERy) had plans to extend the Charlestown Elevated to Malden via a new Main Street Elevated, but local opposition...
    5 KB (494 words) - 18:09, 7 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for North–South Rail Link
    tunnels, that would connect North Station and South Station in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, linking rail networks that serve the city's northern suburbs...
    31 KB (3,442 words) - 20:37, 8 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of the MBTA
    streetcars, elevated railways, and subways. Many streetcar lines were consolidated into the West End Street Railway in 1887. This was merged into the Boston Elevated...
    92 KB (10,096 words) - 02:24, 10 July 2024
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    tracks in Hyde Park, MBTA police say". WCVB 5 ABC. Archived from the original on January 31, 2024. Boston Elevated Railway and Boston Department of Public...
    16 KB (1,451 words) - 19:33, 20 May 2024
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    Route 128 station (category Railway stations in the United States opened in 1953)
    First 150 Years. Boston Street Railway Association. ISBN 9780685412947. "Boston and Providence Railroad". The Boston Directory. George Adams. 1857. p...
    38 KB (3,442 words) - 00:05, 29 May 2024
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    Silver Line Way station (category Bus stations in Boston)
    Jonathan. "Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district" (PDF). Boston Street Railway Association. "Ridership and Service Statistics" (PDF) (14th ed.)...
    6 KB (475 words) - 12:36, 29 June 2024
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    Taiwan Railway (TR) is a state-owned conventional railway in Taiwan. It is operated by the Taiwan Railway Corporation under the supervision of the Ministry...
    80 KB (8,742 words) - 18:21, 16 June 2024
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    West Station (MBTA) (category MBTA Commuter Rail stations in Boston)
    owns the surrounding land), the state, and a third party (intended to be Boston University pending negotiations). In December 2017, the state announced...
    15 KB (1,467 words) - 22:14, 22 May 2024
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    Bourne station (category Railway stations in the United States closed in 1938)
    Pathfinder Railway Guide. New England Railway Publishing Company. February 1885. p. 65. "Relocating Cape Cod Tracks". Boston Globe. February 11, 1911. p. 11...
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