Milton (MBTA station)

MILTON

A PCC car arrives at the inbound platform (2012)

Location

1 Adams Street at 1 Eliot Street
Milton, MA 02186

Coordinates

42°16′12.33″N 71°04′03.40″W / 42.2700917°N 71.0676111°WCoordinates: 42°16′12.33″N 71°04′03.40″W / 42.2700917°N 71.0676111°W

Line(s)

Red Line– Ashmont–Mattapan High Speed Line

Platforms

2 low side platforms

Tracks

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
June 24, 2006 – December 22, 2007^[1]

Rebuilt

December 2007

Previous names

Milton Mills (1848–1871)
Milton Lower Mills (1871–1885)

Traffic

Passengers (2010)

240 (weekday inbound average)^[2]

Services

Preceding station		MBTA		Following station
Butler toward Ashmont		Red Line Mattapan High Speed Line		Central Avenue toward Mattapan

Milton Station is a rail station on the border of Milton, Massachusetts and Boston, Massachusetts on the MBTA Mattapan High Speed Line, which provides light rail service between Ashmont and Mattapan stations. The station is located in the Lower Mills Historic District.

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.^[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.^[1]^[6]

Bus connections

One MBTA Bus route directly serves Milton station:

217 Quincy Center Station – Ashmont Station via Beale Street, Wollaston, & East Milton Square

References

1 2 "MBTA > Transit Projects > Ashmont Station". MBTA. Retrieved 2007-11-16.
↑ "Ridership and Service Statistics" (PDF) (14 ed.). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 2014. Retrieved 14 June 2014.
↑ Poor, Henry V. (1860). History of the Railroads and Canals of the United States. New York: J.H. Schultz. p. 113. OCLC 6838395.
↑ Belcher, Jonathan (22 March 2014). "Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district" (PDF). NETransit. Retrieved 14 June 2014.
↑ 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.
↑ "Mattapan Trolley Re-opens". Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. December 20, 2007. Retrieved 2008-01-24.

External links

MBTA - Milton
Media related to Milton (MBTA station) at Wikimedia Commons
Adams Street entrance from Google Maps Street View

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

Subway lines
(List of stations)

Heavy rail	Blue Orange Red

Light rail	Green "B" Branch "C" Branch "D" Branch "E" Branch Ashmont–Mattapan

Former lines	Arborway Line Atlantic Avenue Elevated Causeway Street Elevated Charlestown Elevated Green Line "A" Branch Washington Street Elevated

Commuter
Rail lines
(List of stations)

North Station lines	Fitchburg Haverhill (Wildcat Branch) Lowell Newburyport/Rockport

South Station lines	Fairmount Framingham/Worcester Franklin Greenbush Needham Old Colony (Kingston/Plymouth Middleborough/Lakeville CapeFLYER) Providence/Stoughton

Former lines	Central Mass Branch Dedham Branch Lexington Branch Millis Branch Woburn Branch

Bus routes
(List of routes)

Other services

Component parts
of system lines

Boylston Street Subway
Haymarket North Extension
Lechmere Viaduct
Tremont Street Subway
Washington Street Subway

Capital projects

Under construction	Chelsea extension Fairmount Line upgrades Forest Hills modifications Green Line Extension Haverhill Line upgrades South Coast Rail Wachusett extension

In planning / proposed	Buzzards Bay extension Foxboro service Hynes Convention Center renovation Kingston R.I. extension Nashua extension Route 16 extension Wollaston renovation

Formerly proposed	Arborway Line restoration Indigo Line (Fairmount Grand Junction Track 61) Lexington extension Lynn extension North–South Rail Link Plaistow extension Reading extension Red Line—Blue Line Connector Urban Ring Project

History

Predecessor companies	Boston Elevated Railway Streetcar lines Boston and Maine Railroad Conrail New York Central Railroad New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Penn Central Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Middlesex and Boston Street Railway Newton and Boston Street Railway

Route histories	History of the Green Line

Accidents and incidents	1990 Back Bay 2008 Waban/Woodland

Other

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