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The Tremont Street subway was designated a National Historic Landmark in recognition for its pioneering role in the development of the subway as a public transit system in the United States. The landmark designation encompasses the still-extant portions of the early tunnel, roughly from Court Street to Charles Street, and includes the original ...
Tremont Street is a major thoroughfare in ... The Tremont Street subway runs underneath the ... Advertisement for Chas. E. Brewster's Natural History Store, 1861.
Plan of the Tremont Street subway (Green Line) level of Park Street in 1898; the station has since been substantially modified. The southern section of the Tremont Street subway from the Public Garden incline through Boylston to Park Street opened on September 1, 1897, followed on October 1 by the spur to the Pleasant Street Portal. [3]
[citation needed] (See MBTA History and MBTA Future plans sections.) Streetcar congestion in downtown Boston led to the creation of underground subways and elevated rail, the former in 1897 and the latter in 1901. The Tremont Street subway was the first rapid transit tunnel in the United States and had a 24/7 service. [4]
The West End Street Railway was renamed the Boston Elevated Railway (BERy), and undertook several such projects. Boston's subway was the first in the United States and is often called "America's First Subway" by the MBTA and others. [8] In 1897 and 1898, the Tremont Street subway opened as the core of the precursor to the Green Line. [9]
The upper level of Park Street opened as part of the Tremont Street subway – a streetcar tunnel now carrying the Green Line – in September 1897. [1] It was built as a cut-and-cover tunnel just below the surface of Tremont Street. From 1901 to 1908, the Main Line Elevated (now the Orange Line) shared the Tremont Street subway.
Map of the portal area, showing the former street configuration Pleasant Street portal in 1901 when the Main Line operated through the Tremont Street subway. An inbound Main Line (now Orange Line) test train is at the high platform at left, while an inbound trolley is on the right.
Boston's central subway is the system of tunnels through which the MBTA Green Line operates light rail transit (LRT or "trolley") service in the urban core of the city. [1] The central subway comprises several tunnels built at different times, including the Tremont Street subway, the Boylston Street subway, and the Huntington Avenue subway.