Atlantic Avenue Elevated

The Atlantic Avenue Elevated was an elevated railway in the eastern city center of Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. She presented an alternative route to the main line of the Boston Elevated Railway (today's way of Orange Line ) to the Washington Street tunnel is The Atlantic Avenue Elevated was in operation from 1901 to 1938 and was torn down due to low passenger numbers.

History

The Atlantic Avenue Elevated was originally planned as part of a larger mass transit system by the Boston Transit Commission in 1896. After the success of the Tremont Street Subway (now the Green Line ), the Commission began to develop alternatives for a unified system that would serve the entire downtown Boston and the surrounding suburbs. According to the concept, there should be two corridors for high trains - on the one side of the Washington Street Subway (now the Orange Line ) below the Washington Street from a portal at the Oak Street to Haymarket and on the other side a completely elevated route along the Atlantic Avenue. At the time of planning the Atlantic Avenue was the center of the fishing and shipbuilding industries in Boston and served many berths for ferries.

Below the Atlantic Avenue Elevated, the Union Freight Railroad ran along the Atlantic Avenue and Commercial Street and freight moving between lines that ended the station to North Station and South.

1901-1919

With its opening in 1901, the Atlantic Avenue Elevated ran through the Tremont Street Subway and was on the climbs at the Pleasant Street and Causeway Street from a subway to the elevated railway. The platforms at the non- located on the elevated train stops had to be equipped with this removable, high platforms, so that the passengers could get out of the car. Where the Washington Street Elevated branched off in a westerly direction from the Washington Street on Castle Street (now Herald Street), there was a complete three-way junction (Tower D) with the Atlantic Avenue Elevated.

The track turned to the one block to the north on Harrison Avenue and one led to Beach Street, where they turned east and their first, eponymous station drove off. From there, the route ran north on Atlantic Avenue to the second station South Station, from where it is (now Red Line ) were links to South Station with other inter-urban and commuter trains, as well as in 1916 in the Cambridge - Dorchester Tunnel. The next stop was Rowes Wharf at Broad Street and High Street with a transfer possibility to Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad via a ferry from Rowes Wharf to East Boston.

In the further course along Atlantic Avenue, State Street was the next station, which in 1904 a transfer service to East Boston Tunnel (now the Blue Line) offered on the same street. The following station Battery Street provided access to Boston's North End. South of it was located on the eastern side of the road the generating station Lincoln Wharf Boston Elevated Railway. The Atlantic Avenue Elevated ended on Keany Square, from where the Charlestown Elevated covered the northern section of the main line. Again, there was a three-way junction (Tower C), which led the Charlestown Elevated west on Causeway Street and then north on the Charlestown Bridge.

In 1908, the Washington Street tunnel was opened and designed the route of the main line again. In this context, the Tremont Street Subway was re- released exclusively for rail vehicles. As a consequence, the southern crossing (Tower D) has been reconfigured and led the main line to the north on the east side of Washington Street to the tunnel.

The route south of South Station had after a fatal accident in the tight curve at Harrison and Beach in July 1928 to be closed and was replaced by shuttles between the South Station and North Station on the Charlestown Elevated. In 1919, was severely damaged by the Atlantic Avenue Elevated Melassekatastrophe from Boston north of the Battery Street.

1920-1942

In the early 1920s, the formerly thriving fishing and shipbuilding industry was hit hard times in Boston, which has already led to a decline in passenger numbers of Atlantic Avenue Elevated. With the completion of the Sumner Tunnel and the setting of the ferry services in the Boston Harbor, passenger numbers broke out between the North Station and South Station then along almost complete. This stretch was closed on 1 October 1938 and demolished in 1942, probably to cover the material required for the Second World War.