Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway

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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.

[edit] 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 sold to the BERy ca. 1930, unifying routes across Forest Hills but creating other connection points.
• Arlington Center
• 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

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