Boston North Station
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 TD Garden with the entrance to North Station
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| Design | Terminus |
| Platform tracks | 10 |
| abbreviation | BON (Amtrak) |
| opening | 1995 |
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| architect | Ellerbe Becket |
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| City / municipality | Boston |
| State | Massachusetts |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 42 ° 21 '57 " N , 71 ° 3' 40" W |
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| List of train stations in the United States | |
The Boston North Station is a train station in Boston in Massachusetts ( United States ). It's on Causeway Street. The station is located under the TD Garden , a sports event hall. The track area is at ground level. From here, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's suburban trains run to Lowell , Fitchburg , Newburyport , Rockport and Haverhill , as well as Amtrak down- easter trains to Portland (Maine) . Under the station is a station on the Boston Subway , which is served by the Green Line and the Orange Line .
The station was opened in 1893 and completely rebuilt in 1928 and 1995. Another smaller renovation took place in 2007.
history
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The first station on Causeway Street was opened in 1835 by the Boston and Lowell Railroad . It was to the west of what is now the train station complex, across from Portland Street. The originally small station building was replaced by a new building in 1878. Next, in 1845, the Boston and Maine Railroad put a station into operation, which in the early years was located on Haymarket Square south of what is now North Station, but was then moved to Causeway Street across from Canal Street. The Fitchburg Railroad opened its terminus in 1848 east of Beverly Street. In April 1854, the Eastern Railroad finally opened a terminus between the Boston & Lowell station and the Boston & Maine line that ran to Haymarket Square.
Gradually, the Boston & Maine took over their competitors, in 1884 the Eastern Railroad and in 1887 the Boston & Lowell. The railway company had three terminal stations right next to each other. In order to create a common station for these routes, she built what was initially called North Union Station and opened it in 1893. The Boston & Lowell building, which had only opened 15 years earlier, was retained and only the Eastern and Boston & Maine stations were replaced by a new building . After the Boston & Maine had also taken over the Fitchburg Railroad in 1900, the terminus of this railway, which had been in operation until then, was also closed and the trains in the direction of Fitchburg also used the North Station. From here, not only suburban trains ran to northern Massachusetts and New Hampshire, but also express trains to Halifax , Montréal , Toronto and Chicago .
In 1928 the entire complex was demolished. In its place was the Boston Madison Square Garden (later Boston Garden ), a sports arena that opened on November 17, 1928. On the ground floor of the building was the ticket hall of the still operating station, which was now called Boston North Station . The last express train for the time being left North Station for Maine in 1965. Only since December 15, 2001 has a long-distance train run from here with the Downeaster to Portland.
The Boston Garden closed in 1995 when the TD Garden opened right next door. At the same time, the track apron and the platform of the station were extensively rebuilt and made smaller. The switch systems have been located in the TD Garden since then. The Boston Garden building was demolished in late 1997 and is now a parking lot. Since the terminal's handling systems were now much too small and not sufficient for rush hour traffic, the southern part of the track field was built over in 2007, thus shortening the railroad tracks. This made it possible to enlarge the waiting area a lot.
Train connections
| line | operator | Route | Trains Monday to Friday |
Trains Saturday / Sunday |
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| Newburyport / Rockport Line | MBTA | Boston North Station - Chelsea - River Works - Lynn - Swampscott - Salem - Beverly - North Beverly - Hamilton - Wenham - Ipswich - Rowley - Newburyport or … Beverly - Montserrat - Prides Crossing - Beverly Farms - Manchester - West Gloucester - Gloucester - Rockport | 29 | 13 |
| Haverhill Line | MBTA | Boston North Station - Malden Center - Wyoming Hill - Melrose / Cedar Park - Melrose Highlands - Greenwood - Wakefield - Reading - North Wilmington - Ballardvale - Andover - Lawrence - Bradford - Haverhill | 24 | 6th |
| Lowell Line | MBTA | Boston North Station - West Medford - Wedgemere - Winchester Center - Mishawum - Anderson RTC ( Woburn ) - Wilmington - North Billerica - Lowell | 27 | 8th |
| Fitchburg Line | MBTA | Boston North Station - Porter Square - Belmont Center - Waverley - Waltham - Brandeis-Roberts - Kendal Green - Hastings - Silver Hill - Lincoln - Concord - West Concord - South Acton - Littleton / I-495 - Ayer - Shirley - North Leominster - Fitchburg | 17th | 8th |
| Downeaster | Amtrak | Boston North Station - Anderson RTC (Woburn) - Haverhill - Exeter - Durham-UNH - Dover - Wells - Saco - Old Orchard Beach - Portland | 5 | 5 |
Connection in local transport
In addition to the suburban trains, the MBTA also operates a light rail ( Green Line ) and a subway in Boston. Both modes of transport serve the North Station with a shared underground station. The Orange Line of the subway runs from Oak Grove in Malden to Forest Hills in the south of Boston. The light rail trains on line C (North Station – Cleveland Circle) and line E (Lechmere – Heath Street) stop at North Station . The station also has the MBTA bus route 4, which goes to the World Trade Center and Boston South Station , and a bus route from the Charles River Transportation Management Association to Cambridge port.
| Previous station | MBTA | Next station | ||
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Haymarket towards Cleveland Circle |
Green Line Green Line C |
final destination | ||
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Haymarket towards Heath Street |
Green Line Green Line E. |
Science Park towards Lechmere |
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Haymarket towards Forest Hills |
Orange line |
Community College towards Oak Grove |
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Sources and further information
- literature
- 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
- Web links
