Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway

Ex-Eastern Mass. Street Railway car 4387 at the Seashore Trolley Museum

1930s map of Eastern Mass streetcar and bus lines

The Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway (Eastern Mass) was a streetcar and later bus company in eastern Massachusetts, serving most suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts. Many of its former routes are now run by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.

BERy connection points

The Eastern Mass connected to the Boston Elevated Railway (BERy) system at many points; through service continued along BERy trackage at some.

Neponset
Milton Lower Mills
Mattapan
Forest Hills - the Hyde Park division was leased to the BERy ca. 1930, unifying routes across Forest Hills but creating other connection points.
Arlington Heights
West Medford
Middlesex Fells
Malden Center
Charlestown
Chelsea - the Chelsea division was sold to the BERy in 1936, unifying routes across Charlestown and Chelsea but creating other connection points.
Suffolk Downs
Fields Corner

Former Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway car 4387, built in 1918 by the Laconia Car Company, is preserved in operating condition at the Seashore Trolley Museum, in Kennebunkport, Maine.^[1]

↑ Young, Andrew D. (1997). Veteran & Vintage Transit, p. 45. St. Louis: Archway Publishing. ISBN 0-9647279-2-7.

Heavy rail	Blue Orange Red

Light rail	Green "B" Branch "C" Branch "D" Branch "E" Branch Ashmont–Mattapan

Former lines	Arborway Line Atlantic Avenue Elevated Causeway Street Elevated Charlestown Elevated Green Line "A" Branch Washington Street Elevated

North Station lines	Fitchburg Haverhill (Wildcat Branch) Lowell Newburyport/Rockport

South Station lines	Fairmount Framingham/Worcester Franklin Greenbush Needham Old Colony (Kingston/Plymouth Middleborough/Lakeville CapeFLYER) Providence/Stoughton

Former lines	Central Mass Branch Dedham Branch Lexington Branch Millis Branch Woburn Branch

Other services

Component parts
of system lines

Capital projects

Under construction	Blue Hill Avenue station Boston Landing station Forest Hills modifications Green Line Extension Haverhill Line upgrades Silver Line Gateway / Chelsea station South Coast Rail

In planning / proposed	Buzzards Bay extension Foxboro service Hynes Convention Center renovation Kingston R.I. extension Nashua extension Route 16 extension Wollaston renovation

Formerly proposed	Arborway Line restoration Indigo Line (Fairmount Grand Junction Track 61) Lexington extension Lynn extension North–South Rail Link Plaistow extension Reading extension Red Line—Blue Line Connector Urban Ring Project

Predecessor companies	Boston Elevated Railway Streetcar lines Boston and Maine Railroad Conrail New York Central Railroad New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Penn Central Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Middlesex and Boston Street Railway Newton and Boston Street Railway

Accidents and incidents	1990 Back Bay 2008 Waban/Woodland

Other

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