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The first trackless trolley line in the Boston transit system was opened by the Boston Elevated Railway (BERy) on April 11, 1936. Replacing a streetcar line over the same route, it was a crosstown line (later numbered 77, and today served by the 69 bus) running from Harvard station east to Lechmere station.
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Many of these facilities are former streetcar carhouses that were gradually converted to trackless trolley and bus use, although some like Southampton (built 2004) are of recent construction. Of the former streetcar carhouses, only Arborway and Watertown were Green Line yards during part of the MBTA era. Everett was an Orange Line yard until 1975.
The first route of the Boston trackless trolley system was opened by BERy, on April 11, 1936. It was route 77 (later 69), Harvard – Lechmere via Cambridge Street. Trackless trolleys ran from Harvard station, but only to the west and north, not east to Lechmere after 1963. Trackless trolley service to these routes ended in March of 2022, and ...
Name of system Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes BERy Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority [b] Boston: Cambridge - Watertown - Belmont: 11 April 1936 12 March 2022 Boston: Somerville - Medford - Arlington: 8 November 1941 31 March 1963 Boston: Everett - Malden: 28 November 1936 31 March 1963 Boston: East Boston - Chelsea - Revere: 5 ...
Routes 71 and 73, along with the adjacent routes 72 and 77A, ran with trolleybuses (locally referred to as "trackless trolleys") for decades after all such other routes in the MBTA system had been eliminated, representing some of the last vestiges of Boston's once-extensive trackless trolley network. [73]
Boston-area streetcar lines remaining in 1940 (in green), plotted against a map of the BERy's subway and elevated lines (in purple). The shade of green for each line denotes how long the line lasted after this; the lightest-green lines were abandoned in 1945 or earlier, the second-lightest lines were abandoned from 1946 to 1950, the second-darkest lines were abandoned from 1951 to 1969, and ...
The Harvard–Lechmere streetcar line was converted to trackless trolley on April 11, 1936 – the first route in what would become an extensive trackless trolley system. [26]: 202 [59] However, the tracks on Cambridge Street were kept for non-revenue use, as Commonwealth Avenue streetcars were stored at Bennett Street Carhouse.