Green Line D

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GREEN LINE "D" Highland Branch
A Green Line D train leaves Fenway Station for Riverside .
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Type	Light rail
place	Greater Boston
Number of stations	20th
Terminals	Government Center Riverside
opening	4th July 1959
operator	MBTA
Route system	Green Line
Daily Passengers	22,922 (weekdays)
Legend Green Line C and E from North Station / Lechmere Government Center Loop Blue Line from Bowdoin B D Government Center Blue Line to Wonderland Park Street Loop A Park Street Red Line Boylston formerly Pleasant Street Portal Arlington Copley Green Line E to Heath Street Hynes Convention Center Kenmore Green Line B to Boston College Green Line C to Cleveland Circle Fenway Longwood Brookline Village Brookline Hills Beaconsfield Green Line C from North Station Reservoir yard C Cleveland Circle Operational route to Green Line B reservoir Chestnut Hill Newton Center Newton Highlands Eliot Waban Woodland D riverside Riverside Yard formerly after Newton Lower Falls Riverside Railway Boston – Worcester

The Green Line "D" , or Highland Branch or Riverside Branch is a subway tram and a branch of the MBTA - Green Line in the area around Boston in the state of Massachusetts of the United States . On this route, light rail vehicles operate on a largely intersection-free route that was previously used by the Boston and Albany Railroad . West of the station Kenmore performs the double-track line through the portal Fenway Incline underground and exit here on the same tracks as the Green Line B and Green Line C . The Green Line D continues through the Boylston Street Subway and Tremont Street Subway , where it merges with the Green Line E route . The route finally ends at the Government Center .

The Green Line D opened in 1959, making it the youngest light rail route in the Boston area. The Newton Center and Newton Highlands stations have been preserved in their original late 19th century architectural style. However, while the Newton Center stop was renovated in the 1980s and expanded through the integration of retailers, Newton Highlands is only used as a pure stopping point.

history

The tram line was built on the route of a railway closed on May 31, 1958, which includes parts of the Yawkey – Brookline , Back Bay – Harrisville and Riverside – Newton Highlands railway lines. The eastern end of the line was connected to the Kenmore underground station by the new Fenway Incline tunnel ramp and the Boylston Street Subway , so that on July 4, 1959, the new tram line was initially under the control of the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), until it was taken over by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) in 1964 . The route ran to Riverside , but the budget was insufficient to purchase new vehicles to operate the route. The MTA therefore decided to close the lines to Waverley and Watertown Square so that their vehicles could be used on the new Riverside route (today's Green Line D ).

The first route on the Riverside Line led to Park Street Station . At the end of the route, some trains only ran to Cleveland Circle , but soon the number of passengers was so high that the line then basically went to the terminus in Riverside .

When the MBTA took over the route in August 1964, the regular service was extended to Lechmere on days other than Sundays . From September 10, 1966, the then line 4 also ran there on Sundays. In 1967, the figures were GreenLine replaced by letters, so out of line 4 Riverside Lechmere the D Riverside was.

On December 30, 1976, the first Boeing LRV vehicle drove on the Green Line D route , but initially had to turn around on Park Street or at the Government Center because the turning loop at Boston North Station was not yet electrified.

Over the years, the city-side terminal changed several times. In addition, there were various changes in the route - including rail replacement services - due to (re) construction work. Most recently, the line service was interrupted from August 4 to 31, 2007 by shuttle buses between the reservoir and Fenway , as the tracks and service facilities there were renewed.

literature

• Ronald Dale Karr: The Rail Lines of Southern New England . A Handbook of Railroad History. Branch Line Press, Pepperell 1995, ISBN 978-0-942147-02-5 .

Web links

Commons : Green Line D branch  - collection of images

• Changes in the routes of the MBTA ( PDF ; 911 kB)
• History of the Railways in Massachusetts