Park Street (MBTA station)

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Park Street Station

An Entrance to the MBTA's Park Street Station in Boston Mass, February 2005
Station statistics
Address	Corner of Boston Common at intersection of Tremont, Park and Winter Streets, Downtown Boston
Lines	MBTA Subway Red Line Green Line
Other service	transfer to the Orange Line by walkway leading to Downtown Crossing Station
Other information
Opened	September 3, 1897 (Green Line) March 23, 1912 (Red Line) July 30, 2002 (Silver Line)
Accessible
Owned by	Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

Park Street Station of the MBTA, located at the intersection of Park Street and Tremont Street in Boston at a corner of Boston Common, is the main transfer point between the Green Line and the Red Line. Throughout the green and red lines, trains labeled "inbound" are headed towards this station, while those labeled "outbound" are headed away.

The Green Line portion of this station was originally constructed in 1897, making it one of the two oldest subway stations in the United States, along with Boylston. The Red Line portion beneath it, sometimes called Park Street Under, was constructed in 1912.

1 Facilities
2 Nearby destinations
3 Bus connections
4 Accessibility
5 Gallery
6 Trivia
7 External links

[edit] Facilities

Underground Winter Street Concourse to Downtown Crossing, for a connection to the Orange Line and Silver Line buses.

[edit] Nearby destinations

the Massachusetts State House, seat of the state's government
Boston Common
Suffolk University
Emerson College
Freedom Trail
the Boston Paulist Center
theater and cinema
shops and restaurants

[edit] Bus connections

43 Ruggles Station
55 Jersey & Queensberry via Copley Sq. & Ipswich St.

[edit] Accessibility

Park Street Station is wheelchair accessible, after a renovation completed in 2004. The Red Line station has both island and side platforms. Only the island platform has elevator access. See also: MBTA accessibility.

[edit] Gallery

Park Street Station, streetcar (now Green Line) platforms, circa 1898

Park Street Station, Green Line platforms, December 2004

Park Street Under, Red Line platforms, January 2005

Two trains at Park Street. Left, Type 7 Kinki-Sharyo train bound for Boston College. Background, Type 8 Ansaldo-Breda train departs for Government Center

[edit] Trivia

Park Street makes a cameo appearance in the first paragraph of the 1927 H.P. Lovecraft story, "Pickman's Model." It also appears near the end of his 1936 novella "At the Mountains of Madness."

[edit] External links

nycsubway.org - Historical photo of Park Street in 1980
nycsubway.org - Another historical photo of Park Street in 1980

Previous station	MBTA	Next station
Boylston toward Boston College	Green Line "B" Branch	Government Center Terminus
Boylston toward Riverside	Green Line "D" Branch	Government Center Terminus
Boylston toward Cleveland Circle	Green Line "C" Branch	Government Center toward North Station
Boylston toward Heath Street	Green Line "E" Branch	Government Center toward Lechmere
Charles/MGH toward Alewife	Red Line	Downtown Crossing toward Ashmont or Braintree