Milton (MBTA station)

MILTON

A PCC car arrives at the inbound platform in 2012
Location 1 Adams Street at 1 Eliot Street
Milton, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°16′12.33″N 71°04′03.40″W / 42.2700917°N 71.0676111°W / 42.2700917; -71.0676111Coordinates: 42°16′12.33″N 71°04′03.40″W / 42.2700917°N 71.0676111°W / 42.2700917; -71.0676111
Line(s)
  Red Line– Ashmont–Mattapan High Speed Line
Platforms 2 low side platforms
Tracks 2
Connections MBTA Bus: 217
Construction
Parking 41 spaces ($4.00 fee)
4 accessible spaces
Bicycle facilities 8 spaces
Disabled access Yes
History
Opened 1848 (Old Colony)
August 26, 1929 (Boston Elevated)
Closed 1926
Rebuilt June 24, 2006 — December 22, 2007
Previous names Milton Mills (1848–1871)
Milton Lower Mills (1871–1885)
Traffic
Passengers (2010) 240 (weekday inbound average)[1]
Services
Preceding station   MBTA   Following station
toward Ashmont
Red Line
toward Mattapan

Milton Station is a light rail station on the MBTA Ashmont–Mattapan High Speed Line, located in the Lower Mills Historic District in Milton, Massachusetts.

This station is wheelchair accessible via wooden ramps on both platforms.

History

Milton station in 1923, shortly before the conversion to trolleys

The Milton Station originally opened in 1848 as Milton Mills, a station on the Dorchester and Milton Branch Railroad, a subsidiary of the Old Colony Railroad.[2] The station was renamed Milton Lower Mills in 1871, and to the more distinguished Milton on February 2, 1885.[3]

Conversion of the section between Ashmont and Mattapan to an interurban-style trolley line by the Boston Elevated Railway began in 1926, and the segment of the Ashmont–Mattapan High Speed Line from Ashmont to Milton was opened on August 26, 1929. Milton was the terminus of the trolley line until the remaining segment to Mattapan opened on December 21, 1929.[4]

On March 18, 1968, the Neponset River flooded the line at Milton station. Restoration work began at 6:00 am on March 21 as the waters receded; service was resumed by 4:30 pm.[5]

In June 2006, Milton station was closed for 18 months while the MBTA renovated stations on the Ashmont–Mattapan High Speed Line. Trolley service was replaced by shuttle buses, and resumed in December 2007.[4][6]

Bus connections

One MBTA Bus route directly serves Milton station:

References

  1. ↑ "Ridership and Service Statistics" (PDF) (14th ed.). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 2014.
  2. ↑ Poor, Henry V. (1860). History of the Railroads and Canals of the United States. New York: J.H. Schultz. p. 113. OCLC 6838395.
  3. ↑ Jacobs, Warren (October 1928). "Dates of Some of the Principal Events in the History of 100 Years of the Railroad in New England. 1826-1926". The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin. Railway & Locomotive Historical Society (17): 15–28.
  4. 1 2 Belcher, Jonathan (22 March 2014). "Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district" (PDF). NETransit. Retrieved 14 June 2014.
  5. ↑ Fourth Annual Report (Covering the period October 1, 1967 - October 31, 1968) of the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 1968. p. 218 – via Internet Archive.
  6. ↑ "Mattapan Trolley Re-opens". Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. December 20, 2007. Retrieved 2008-01-24.

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