Ball Square (MBTA station)
BALL SQUARE | |||||||||||
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 Ball Square station site in July 2015 | |||||||||||
| Location |
Broadway at Boston Avenue Somerville, Massachusetts | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 42°23′59.94″N 71°6′39.97″W / 42.3999833°N 71.1111028°WCoordinates: 42°23′59.94″N 71°6′39.97″W / 42.3999833°N 71.1111028°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | MBTA | ||||||||||
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| Platforms | 1 island platform (Green Line) | ||||||||||
| Tracks |
2 (Green Line) 2 (Lowell Line) | ||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||
| Platform levels | 2 | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 2020 (planned) | ||||||||||
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Ball Square is a planned station on the MBTA Green Line "D" Branch in the Ball Square neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts.[1][2] Ball Square will consist of one island platform, which will serve the "D" Branch's two tracks.
History
The Boston and Lowell Railroad opened through Somerville and Medford in 1835, although local passenger stops were not added until several years later. A station was built at Cambridge Road (Broadway) near Ball Square; by 1875, the station was named Willow Bridge and located on the west side of the tracks just north of Broadway.[3][4] By the late 1890s, the station was named North Somerville.[5]
Horsecars, and later streetcars consolidated under the Boston Elevated Railway, cut sharply into local railroad traffic. All stops inbound from North Somerville were closed in 1927 when the Fitchburg Cutoff became freight-only, or shortly thereafter. On April 18, 1958, the Public Utilities Commission approved a vast set of cuts to Boston and Maine Railroad commuter service, including the closure of North Somerville, Tufts College, and Medford Hillside stations.[6] The three stations were closed on May 18, 1958, amid the first of a series of cuts.[7]
References
- ↑ "MBTA Light Rail Transit System OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE PLAN" (PDF). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 6 January 2011. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
- ↑ "Travel Forecasts: Systemwide Stats and SUMMIT Results" (PDF). Green Line Extension Project: FY 2012 New Starts Submittal. Massachusetts Department of Transportation. January 2012. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
- ↑ Karr, Ronald Dale (1995). The Rail Lines of Southern New England. Branch Line Press. pp. 229–231. ISBN 0942147022.
- ↑ "Part of Medford". County Atlas of Middlesex, Massachusetts. F.W. Beers & Co. 1875 – via Ward Maps.
- ↑ "Part of Medford". Atlas of Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Geo. H. Walker & Co. 1889 – via Ward Maps.
- ↑ "Drastic Service Cuts Approved on Five B.& M. Divisions". Daily Boston Globe. 19 April 1958 – via Proquest Historical Newspapers. (subscription required (help)).
- ↑ Humphrey, Thomas J.; Clark, Norton D. (1985). Boston's Commuter Rail: The First 150 Years. Boston Street Railway Association. p. 57. ISBN 9780685412947.