Massachusetts Avenue (MBTA Silver Line station)

MASSACHUSETTS AVE
Outbound platform at Mass Ave station
Location	Washington St at Massachusetts Avenue Boston, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°20′11″N 71°04′38″W / 42.3363°N 71.0772°WCoordinates: 42°20′11″N 71°04′38″W / 42.3363°N 71.0772°W
Owned by	Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
Line(s)	Silver Line
Platforms	2 side platforms
Construction
Parking	none
Bicycle facilities	2 spaces
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	1901[1] (Washington Street Elevated) July 20, 2002
Closed	30 April 1987[1] (Orange Line)
Traffic
Passengers (2009 daily)	864[2]
Services
Preceding station   MBTA   Following station Lenox Street toward Dudley Square Silver Line SL4 Worcester Square toward South Station Silver Line SL5 Worcester Square toward Downtown Crossing   Former services   Dudley Square toward Forest Hills Orange Line Closed 1987 Dover toward Oak Grove

Massachusetts Avenue is a street-level station on the MBTA Silver Line's Washington Street branch (SL4/SL5), located on Washington St at Massachusetts Avenue near the Boston University Medical Campus. This station is approximately  ¹⁄₂ mile from the Orange Line station of the same name, and is located under the former location of Northampton station on the Washington Street Elevated (the former alignment of the southern half of the Orange Line), which closed in April 1987.

Orange Line use

The Northampton elevated station in the 1970s

Formerly, the station operated as Northampton on the Washington Street Elevated, part of the MBTA's Orange Line. It was closed in 1987 when the line was rerouted to the west along the Southwest Corridor.^[1] Unlike the majority of the stations on the Washington Street Elevated, however, Northampton station was not scrapped; instead, it was moved to the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, Maine in 1988, and remains there today.^[3]

Layout

■ Silver Line	toward Dudley Square (Lenox Street)
■ Silver Line	toward South Station (SL4) or Downtown Crossing (SL5) (Worcester Sq)

Accessibility

The station is fully accessible (see MBTA accessibility).

References

1. Belcher, Jonathan (27 December 2014). "Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district" (PDF). NETransit. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
2. "Ridership and Service Statistics" (PDF). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 2010. Retrieved 8 August 2013.
3. Poftak, Steve (7 December 2012). "Where Do MBTA Cars Go When They Die?". Boston Magazine. Retrieved 26 June 2015.

External links

• MBTA Silver Line -- Massachusetts Avenue Station