Stony Brook station (MBTA)
Stony Brook station is a rapid transit station in Boston, Massachusetts. It serves the MBTA Orange Line and is located below grade at Boylston Street in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood. The station opened on May 4, 1987, as part of the Southwest Corridor project, replacing an earlier station that was open from 1897 to 1940.
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Stony Brook station headhouse in July 2016 | |||||||||||
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| Location | 100 Boylston Street Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 42°19′02″N 71°06′15″W / 42.3172°N 71.1043°W | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Southwest Corridor | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | Below grade | ||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | 12 spaces | ||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | May 4, 1987[1] | ||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||
| FY2019 | 3,501[2] | ||||||||||
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History edit
Railroad station edit
The Boston and Providence Railroad opened through Roxbury in June 1834. Local stations were gradually added; Boylston Street station was open by around 1849.[3]: 154 [4] A new station building was constructed in 1872.[5][6] It was a one-story wood building located on the west side of the tracks north of Boylston Street.[7][8] The final wooden bridges on the railroad's mainline were eliminated in the early 1880s when Stony Brook was rerouted to the east side of the tracks.[9] A new station at Boylston was constructed around 1891.[10]
Starting in 1891, the Old Colony Railroad (acquired in 1893 by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad) raised the section of its main line through Jamaica Plain (extending from Massachusetts Avenue to Forest Hills) onto a 4-track stone embankment to eliminate dangerous grade crossings. The project involved the replacement of the five NYNH&H stations in Roxbury and Jamaica Plain; the new elevated stations opened on June 1, 1897.[11][12]
On November 22, 1909, the Washington Street Elevated was extended south from Dudley Square (now Nubian Square) to Forest Hills.[1] Although the five NYNH&H stations in Roxbury and Jamaica Plain continued to operate for over three decades following the southward extension of the Washington Street Elevated, they were ultimately unable to compete with the Elevated, and all, including Boylston Street, were closed on September 29, 1940 due to a lack of passengers.[11][12]
Orange Line station edit
In the 1960s, plans took hold to extend I-95 into downtown Boston along the NYNH&H's right-of-way and to replace the Washington Street Elevated (after 1967 known as the Orange Line) with a rapid transit line running in the new highway's median. Although the project was halted by highway revolts in 1969 and the February 11, 1970 announcement by Governor Francis W. Sargent of a moratorium on new highway construction within the Route 128 corridor, and eventually cancelled by Governor Sargent in 1972, the right-of-way had already been cleared. This empty strip of land (known as the Southwest Corridor) was eventually developed into the Southwest Corridor Park, and the Orange Line was moved to a new alignment along the Corridor in 1987 despite the cancellation of the project originally calling for its relocation. This included a new rapid transit station at Boylston Street, on the site of the former NYNH&H station, named Stony Brook after the former watercourse of the same name. (The name was determined in 1985 as part of a series of station name changes.[13]) The Washington Street Elevated was permanently closed on April 30, 1987, and the new southern half of the Orange Line, including Stony Brook, opened on May 4.[11][1]
Stony Brook has not been served by MBTA bus service since route 48 was discontinued on July 1, 2012.[1] The entire Orange Line, including Stony Brook station, was closed from August 19 to September 18, 2022, during maintenance work.[14]
References edit
- ^ a b c d Belcher, Jonathan. "Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district" (PDF). Boston Street Railway Association.
- ^ "A Guide to Ridership Data". MassDOT/MBTA Office of Performance Management and Innovation. June 22, 2020. p. 8.
- ^ Kennedy, Charles J. (Summer 1962). "Commuter Services in the Boston Area, 1835-1860". The Business History Review. 36 (2): 153–170. doi:10.2307/3111453. JSTOR 3111453. S2CID 154294514.
- ^ "House To Let In Roxbury [Advertisement]". Boston Evening Transcript. January 4, 1854. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Annual Meeting of the Boston & Providence Railroad Company". The Boston Globe. November 21, 1872. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Report of the Board of Directors of the Boston and Providence Railroad Corporation for the Year Ending September 30, 1872. Boston and Providence Railroad Corporation. November 20, 1872. p. 6.
- ^ "Plate A" (Map). Atlas of the county of Suffolk, Massachusetts : vol. 5th, West Roxbury, now ward 17, Boston. 1:1,800. G.M. Hopkins & Co. 1874. pp. 10–11.
- ^ "Plate 94" (Map). Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. 1:6,00. Sanborn Map Company. Vol. 3. 1888.
- ^ Report of the Board of Directors of the Boston and Providence Railroad Corporation for the Year Ending September 30, 1881. Boston and Providence Railroad. 1881. p. 9.
- ^ Twenty-Eighth Annual Report of the Old Colony Railroad Co. to the Stockholders. Old Colony Railroad Company. September 1891. p. 7.
- ^ a b c Heath, Richard (January 25, 2013). "A HISTORY OF FOREST HILLS" (PDF). Jamaica Plain Historical Society. Retrieved February 13, 2016.
- ^ a b Rocheleau, Matt (November 26, 2012). "Raising the railroad in Forest Hills". Boston Globe. Retrieved February 12, 2016.
- ^ Crocket, Douglas S. (July 27, 1985). "T board votes to change the names of some stations". Boston Globe. p. 26 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "A Rider's Guide to Planning Ahead: Upcoming Orange & Green Line Service Suspensions" (PDF). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. August 2022.
External links edit
Media related to Stony Brook station (MBTA) at Wikimedia Commons
- MBTA - Stony Brook
- Boylston Street entrance from Google Maps Street View