Shawmut (MBTA station)

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Shawmut
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Boston subway station
Shawmut
Entrance building
Basic data
District Dorchester
Opened 1884; September 1, 1928
Newly designed 1928, 1981, 2009
Tracks (platform) 2 (2 side platforms )
Coordinates 42 ° 17 '37 "  N , 71 ° 3' 57"  W Coordinates: 42 ° 17 '37 "  N , 71 ° 3' 57"  W.
use
Line (s) Red Line
Passengers 2,241 per day

Shawmut is the name of a subway station owned by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) in the Boston borough of Dorchester in the state of Massachusetts in the United States . It provides access to the Ashmont branch of the line Red Line .

history

In 1872 took over Old Colony Railroad with the Shawmut Branch Railroad , the forerunner of today's route Red Line . The old route included stations on Melville Avenue and Center Street , which were combined to form Shawmut station in 1884 . In 1893, the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad took over the operation of the Old Colony Railroad . In 1924 the Boston Elevated Railway bought the Shawmut Branch Railroad and parts of the Milton Branch Railroad for the planned expansion of their Cambridge-Dorchester line , today's Red Line . The station was opened together with the terminus Ashmont on September 1, 1928 as an extension of the existing route and extensively renovated in 1981 and 2009.

Railway systems

Track, signal and security systems

The underground station has two tracks, each accessible via a side platform .

building

The subway station is on Dayton Street . It is the only underground station on the Red Line south of Andrew station and is completely barrier-free .

environment

There is no connection to the MBTA bus lines at the station.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ridership and Service Statistics. (PDF; 6.2 MB) Thirteenth Edition 2010. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority , 2010, accessed on March 19, 2013 .
  2. ^ Jonathan Belcher: Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district 1964-2013. (PDF; 911 kB) January 1, 2013, accessed on March 19, 2013 (English).
  3. ^ Ronald Dale Karr: Lost railroads of New England (=  New England rail heritage series ). 3. Edition. Branch Line Press, Pepperell, Mass. 2010, ISBN 978-0-942147-11-7 .

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