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The Tremont Street subway in Boston's MBTA subway system is the oldest subway tunnel in North America and the third-oldest still in use worldwide to exclusively use electric traction (after the City and South London Railway in 1890, and the Budapest Metro's Line 1 in 1896), opening on September 1, 1897.
The Tremont Street subway runs underneath the street. Opened in 1897, it was the first subway tunnel in North America and still carries the MBTA Green Line. The Green Line stops in three places under Tremont Street: Government Center; Park Street; Boylston
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]
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]
Schematic map of Green Line branches and stations. The Green Line's core is the central subway, a group of tunnels which run through downtown Boston. [10] The Tremont Street subway runs roughly north–south through downtown, with stations at Boylston, Park Street, Government Center, Haymarket, and North Station – all with connections to other lines of the MBTA subway system.
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.
The two western tracks continued down Tremont Street, while the eastern tracks turned east on Pleasant Street via Broadway to City Point in South Boston. On June 10, 1901, streetcar service through the portal stopped, as the Washington Street Elevated (later part of the Orange Line ) was connected to the two outermost tracks.
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]