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On June 12, 1915, the Hyde Park–Forest Hills line was extended to Jamaica Plain Carhouse, with the Forest Hills–North Station (via Columbus Avenue) route cut back to Jamaica Plain Carhouse; this change was to provide more frequent service between Forest Hills and the carhouse. [55]
It serves the MBTA's Orange Line and is located in the southern part of the Jamaica Plain neighborhood. Green Street is the least-used station on the Orange Line, averaging 3,055 weekday boardings in FY 2019. [2] Like all Orange Line stations, it is fully accessible.
Heath Street short turns were cut on February 11, 1983 when a snowstorm closed the line, and did not resume when it reopened. [4] On September 8, 1984, short turns using LRVs were extended to Heath Street. [4] On December 28, 1985, the entire Arborway line was cut for repairs to the Huntington Avenue subway.
The embankment cut through most of Jamaica Plain from north to south. In time, the housing along the embankment came to be devalued, and property to the east of the train line was cut off from the higher income sections of the community.
The line returns to the surface in the South End, then follows the Southwest Corridor southwest in a cut through Roxbury and Jamaica Plain to Forest Hills station. The Orange Line operates during normal MBTA service hours (all times except late nights) with six-car trains. It uses a 152-car CRRC fleet built in 2018–2024.
Forest Hills station is located at the southern end of the Jamaica Plain neighborhood, where Washington Street, South Street, and Hyde Park Avenue intersect the Arborway parkway. To the west of the station is Arnold Arboretum ; to the east is the small Forest Hills neighborhood plus Forest Hills Cemetery and Franklin Park
Two additional stations in Jamaica Plain were added in 1842: Jamaica Plain at Green Street, and Tollgate (later Forest Hills) where the line crossed the Norfolk and Bristol Turnpike. [4] Additional stations on the inner part of the line were soon added, including stops at Boylston Street in Jamaica Plain and Heath Street in Roxbury. [5]
Route 43 trolleys at the Lenox Street loop in August 1956, two months after the loop became the new outbound terminus of the line. Trackage along Tremont Street and Columbus Avenue was originally built in 1857 by the West Roxbury Railroad to provide service to Jamaica Plain (see Green Line "E" branch for more about that line). It used Tremont ...