Washington Street Elevated

The Washington Street Elevated was a aufgeständertes section of the subway and urban railway system of Boston Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority ( MBTA ) in the state of Massachusetts in the United States. It included the southern part of the Orange Line and ran from Chinatown through the South End and Roxbury up to Forest Hills, where she ended up in Jamaica Plain. At its opening in 1901, the line led only to the station Dudley Square; the last piece to Forest Hills was not completed until 1909.

The Washington Street Elevated was torn down in 1987 and replaced by a long time planned route west of the original route. The new route was followed by the South West Corridor, which was actually intended for the Interstate 95 by the Boston city center, but this was never realized due to civil protests. In 2002, the MBTA introduced on the largest part of the route bus lines as Phase I of the Silver Line controversial. Although it was heavily invested in the optimization of routes, but there were also critical voices about the reduced number of stops.

Stations

The Washington Street Elevated held at six stations, of which the largest were at the Dudley Square and Forest Hills. The stations were designed by architect Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, Jr. and showed many ornaments as well as considerable architectural skill. Only the station in Forest Hills was designed by Edmund March Wheelwright and differed greatly from the others. As the Washington Street Elevated was closed, but a lot of the details due to decades of neglect and decay due to budget constraints had already been lost. Therefore, all stations were demolished except Northampton with the tracks, which was sold to the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, Maine, and there can still be seen today. Worth preserving parts of the station Dudley Square were integrated into the current bus station located there.

Overall, the line snapped at the following stations: