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The Boston North Station is a train station in Boston, Massachusetts (United States). It is located along Causeway Street. The station is located under the TD Garden, a sports event hall. The track surface is at ground level. From here run suburban trains of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority to Lowell, Fitchburg, Newburyport, Rockport and Haverhill, and Downeaster trains of Amtrak to Portland ( Maine). Under the railway station is a station of the metro Boston, which is served by the Green Line and the Orange Line.
The station was opened in 1893 and 1928 and 1995 completely rebuilt. Another smaller reconstruction took place in 2007.
History
The first station on the Causeway Street was opened in 1835 by the Boston and Lowell Railroad. It was located west of the present station complex, opposite Portland Street. The originally small reception building in 1878 replaced by a new building. Next, adopted in 1845, the Boston and Maine Railroad station in one operation, which in the early years of the Haymarket Square to the south of today's North Station was located, but was then moved to the Causeway Street across Canal Street. The Fitchburg Railroad opened its terminus east of 1848 Beverly Street. In April 1854, finally, the Eastern Railroad opened a terminal station between the station of the Boston & Lowell and the leading time still to Haymarket Square route of the Boston & Maine.
Gradually, the Boston & Maine took over their competitors, in 1884 the Eastern Railroad and in 1887 the Boston & Lowell. The railway company had thus three directly adjacent terminal stations. In order to create a common station for these routes, they built the first as North Union Station designated station and opened it in 1893., The only 15 years previously opened building of the Boston & Lowell was preserved and only the stations in the Eastern and the Boston & Maine were replaced by a new. After the Boston & Maine 1900 had also taken over the Fitchburg Railroad, which until then had operated terminus of this railway was also shut down and the trains in the direction of Fitchburg used the North station. From here perverted not only suburban trains to the north of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, but also express trains to Halifax, Montreal, Toronto and Chicago.
1928, the entire complex was demolished. In its place, the Boston Madison Square Garden was created (later the Boston Garden ), a sports arena, which opened on 17 November 1928. On the ground floor of the building was the main hall of the still -powered station, which was now called Boston North Station. The time being last express train left the station in 1965 in North direction Maine. It was not until December 15, 2001 reversed the Downeaster to Portland again a long-distance train from here.
The Boston Garden was closed in 1995 when the TD Garden was opened right next door. At the same time the track field and the platform system of the station was extensively rebuilt and reduced in size. The switch systems have since been located at the TD Garden. The building of the Boston Garden was demolished in late 1997, in its place now is a parking lot. Since the terminal facilities of the station but were now much too small and not sufficient in the rush hour, the southern part of the track field was built over 2007, thereby shortening the train tracks. This allowed the waiting area to be enlarged considerably.
Train
Connection in the transport
In addition to the suburban trains, the MBTA also operates a light rail ( Green Line ) and a subway in Boston. Both transport operate with a common underground station, the North Station. The Orange Line subway runs from Oak Grove in Malden to Forest Hills to the south of the city of Boston. At the North Station stop the light rail trains on the C (North Station Cleveland Circle ) and the line E ( Lechmere - Heath Street). At the station also operates the MBTA bus line 4, which goes to the World Trade Center and Boston South Station, and a bus line of the Charles River Transportation Management Association to Cambridge Port.
Sources and further information
- Ronald D. Karr: The Rail Lines of Southern New England. A Handbook of Railroad History. Branch Line Press, Pepperell, MA 1995. ISBN 0-942147-02-2
- Boston North Station (Amtrak ) (English)
- Boston North Station ( MBTA )
- Station in the United States
- Metro Station of the MBTA in Boston
- Built in the 1990s
- Station of the MBTA Green Line