Pleasant Street station (BERy)

Pleasant Street was a station of the Boston Elevated Railway (BERy) located just outside the Pleasant Street incline (the southern end of the Tremont Street subway) in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. Opening along with the rest of the Main Line Elevated (Main Line El) in June 1901, it served Main Line El trains from 1901 to 1908, temporarily replacing streetcar service through the Pleasant Street Incline (the streetcar lines formerly running into the Tremont Street subway through the incline were rerouted to the El's southern terminal at Dudley). In 1908, with the completion of the Washington Street Tunnel, the elevated trains were rerouted through the new tunnel, and Pleasant Street station was closed; although streetcar service to North Station through the Pleasant Street Incline promptly resumed (continuing until 1962), the streetcars did not stop at Pleasant Street.

Pleasant Street
Pleasant Street station in May 1901, a month before its opening; a Main Line El test train is visible at left.
General information
Coordinates42°20′56.4″N 71°3′57.6″W / 42.349000°N 71.066000°W / 42.349000; -71.066000
Owned byBoston Elevated Railway
Line(s)Tremont Street subway
History
Opened10 June 1901[1]
Closed30 November 1908[1]
Services
Preceding station Boston Elevated Railway Following station
Dover
toward Dudley
Main Line Elevated
1901-1908
Boylston

Station layout edit

P
Platforms
Southbound      Main Line Elevated toward Dudley (Dover)
Island platform, doors would open on the left
Northbound      Main Line Elevated toward Sullivan Square (Boylston)

References edit

  1. ^ a b Belcher, Jonathan (27 June 2015). "Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district 1964-2015" (PDF). NETransit. Retrieved 5 September 2015.