The Boston Elevated Railway (BERy) was a streetcar and rapid transit railroad operated on, above, and below, the streets of Boston, Massachusetts and surrounding...
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An elevated railway or elevated train (also known as an el train or el for short) is a railway with the tracks above street level on a viaduct or other...
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abandoned in 1900. In 1897 the recently-formed Boston Elevated Railway (BERy) took over the West End Street Railway in order to make the streetcar lines part...
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Elevated was an elevated railway around the east side of Downtown Boston, Massachusetts, providing a second route for the Boston Elevated Railway's Main...
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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...
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The Meigs Elevated Railway was an experimental but unsuccessful 19th century elevated steam-powered urban rapid transit system, often described as a monorail...
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The Middlesex and Boston Street Railway (M&B) was a streetcar and later bus company in the area west of Boston. Streetcars last ran in 1930, and in 1972...
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began on May 5, 1903. (The line operated over the Boston Elevated Railway in Brookline and Boston; these trackage rights had been granted in December...
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Orange Line (MBTA) (redirect from Main Line Elevated)
Main Line Elevated of the Boston Elevated Railway, which was built in 1901. It consisted of the Charlestown Elevated, Atlantic Avenue Elevated, Washington...
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JFK/UMass station (category Railway stations in Boston)
A station building opened in 1868 and was rebuilt in 1883. The Boston Elevated Railway began construction of Columbia station on the Dorchester Extension...
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Great Molasses Flood (redirect from The Boston Molasses Disaster)
panels of the burst tank against the girders of the adjacent Boston Elevated Railway's Atlantic Avenue structure and tip a streetcar momentarily off...
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when it leased its entire line to the Boston Elevated Railway. It was formally consolidated into the Boston Elevated in 1922. The original purpose of the...
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Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (redirect from Boston t)
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...
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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...
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Red Line (MBTA) (redirect from Red Line (Boston))
Red Line has the highest ridership of the MBTA subway lines. The Boston Elevated Railway opened its Cambridge tunnel between Harvard and Park Street in...
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Commonwealth Avenue just east of Lake Street. On August 15, 1896, the Boston Elevated Railway (BERy) added tracks on newly constructed Commonwealth Avenue from...
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Hynes Convention Center station (category Railway stations located underground in Boston)
October 1914 along with the Boylston Street subway for use by the Boston Elevated Railway (BERy). Construction on a surface-level transfer station for streetcars...
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Dorchester Railroad (category Streetcars in the Boston area)
became a surface trolley line of the West End Street Railway and then the Boston Elevated Railway. It no longer carries a single service (which would now...
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the MBTA system (after Porter station). The Boston Elevated Railway (BERy) opened the Atlantic Avenue Elevated on August 22, 1901, with a station at State...
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Green Line E branch (redirect from Line E (Boston))
times through congested Copley Square. Ownership passed from the Boston Elevated Railway to the Metropolitan Transit Authority in 1947, and to the MBTA...
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Green Line (MBTA) (redirect from Green Line (Boston))
with the Cambridge Horse Railroad and was consolidated into the Boston Elevated Railway several decades later. The branches all travel downtown through...
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Harvard station (category Railway stations in the United States opened in 1912)
Tremont Street Subway, the Boston Elevated Railway (BERy) planned an elevated system with lines to Cambridge, South Boston, Charlestown, and Roxbury....
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Lechmere station (category Railway stations in Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Bridge Street to reach the Tremont Street subway. In 1922, the Boston Elevated Railway opened a prepayment transfer station at Lechmere, separating the...
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List of MBTA bus routes (redirect from List of MBTA bus routes in South Boston)
the Boston Elevated Railway, or of suburban companies including the Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway and Middlesex and Boston Street Railway. 147...
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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...
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Park Street station (MBTA) (category Railway stations located underground in Boston)
the Board of Trustees of the Boston Elevated Railway Company for the Year Ending December 31, 1936. Boston Elevated Railway. 1937. p. 16 – via Internet...
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until 1958. The Boston Elevated Railway opened its Sullivan Square station in June 1901 as the northern terminus of the Charlestown Elevated. The massive...
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Arborway station (category Former railway stations in Boston)
Washington Street, serving newly electrified streetcar lines. The Boston Elevated Railway (BERy), successor to the West End, opened a second carhouse on...
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Cambridge Railroad (redirect from Cambridge Street Railway)
leased to the Union Railway for 50 years, later passing under control of the West End Street Railway in 1887 and the Boston Elevated Railway in 1897. The main...
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Green Line A branch (redirect from Line A (Boston))
Lines, Boston Elevated Railway, August 1904 – via Wikimedia Commons Tracks Operated by the Boston Elevated Railway Company, Boston Elevated Railway, January...
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