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Salem is a major park and ride center, with a 700-space parking garage, as well as an MBTA bus terminal. It is the busiest commuter rail station in the MBTA system outside of the central Boston stations, with an average of 2,326 daily boardings in a 2018 count. The Eastern Railroad opened between Salem and East Boston in August 1838. The first ...
The Boston to Salem route had long been monopolized by the Eastern Railroad and when the South Reading line was opened, it took quite a bit of the business away with lower fares and the fact that passengers had a direct link to downtown Boston via the Boston and Maine Railroad, the Eastern's most heated rival. Whereas the Eastern had to ferry ...
MBTA Commuter Rail is the commuter rail system for the Greater Boston metropolitan area of Massachusetts. It is owned by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) and operated under contract by Keolis. In 2022, it was the fifth-busiest commuter rail system in the United States with an average weekday ridership of 78,800. [1]
never opened, built by the Boston and Maine Railroad: Martha's Vineyard Railroad: Oak Bluffs: South Beach: Nantucket Railroad: Nantucket: Siasconset: Southern New England Railway: Palmer: Rhode Island state line in Blackstone: never finished, built by the Grand Trunk Railway: Union Freight Railroad: connecting lines in downtown Boston
Boston and Maine Railroad: B&M, BM B&M 1841 1964 Boston and Maine Corporation: Boston and Maine Railroad Extension Company: B&M: 1844 1845 Boston and Maine Railroad: Boston and New York Central Railroad: NH: 1853 1858 Midland Railroad: Boston and Portland Railroad: B&M: 1839 1841 Boston and Maine Railroad: Boston and Providence Railroad: NH ...
Customers north of the bridge were serviced via the Newburyport branch until all service on that line was suspended around 2000. The line between Peabody Square and Salem remained open for freight and the MBTA had preliminary plans to reopen passenger service between Salem and Danvers Junction, replacing the old bridge to gain access to Danvers ...
Shortly after the steam locomotive became practical for mass transportation, [6] the private Boston and Lowell Railroad was chartered in 1830. [7] The rail, which opened in 1835, [6] connected Boston to Lowell, [8] a major northerly mill town in northeast Massachusetts' Merrimack Valley, [9] via one of the oldest railroads in North America.
Commuter Rail tickets in the form of CharlieTickets purchased at fare vending machines and ticket booths (left) and paper tickets purchased on-board (right). MBTA Commuter Rail uses a zone fare system, with fares increasing with distance. Zone 1A includes the downtown terminals and other inner core stations up to about 5 miles (8.0 km) from ...