Boston Elevated Railway Company
1894 – 1947
- State of Incorporation
- Massachusetts
- Business Purpose
- Street Railway
- Rail Operations
- 1897-1947
- Operations In
- United States: Massachusetts
Predecessor Companies by Name Change, Reorganization or Merger
- West End Street Railway Company
- 1887 to 1922, Unknown
Timeline
- 1894
- Boston Elevated Railway Company is chartered in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Source
Stephen P. Carlson with Thomas W. Harding, “Boston - In, Over & Under the Hub,” in From Boston to the Berkshires, 11-41 (Boston Street Railway Association, Inc., 1990). - March 1895
- Boston Elevated Railway Company begins construction of the Tremont Street tunnel.
Source
Stephen P. Carlson with Thomas W. Harding, “Boston - In, Over & Under the Hub,” in From Boston to the Berkshires, 11-41 (Boston Street Railway Association, Inc., 1990). - 1897
- West End Street Railway Company leases its property to Boston Elevated Railway Company.
Source
Stephen P. Carlson with Thomas W. Harding, “Boston - In, Over & Under the Hub,” in From Boston to the Berkshires, 11-41 (Boston Street Railway Association, Inc., 1990). - September 1, 1897
- Boston Elevated Railway Company completes construction of the United States' first subway below Tremont Street.
Source
Stephen P. Carlson with Thomas W. Harding, “Boston - In, Over & Under the Hub,” in From Boston to the Berkshires, 11-41 (Boston Street Railway Association, Inc., 1990). - June 10, 1901
- Boston Elevated Railway Company begins operations of the Sullivan Square to Dudley Street elevated.
Source
Stephen P. Carlson with Thomas W. Harding, “Boston - In, Over & Under the Hub,” in From Boston to the Berkshires, 11-41 (Boston Street Railway Association, Inc., 1990). - 1908
- Boston Elevated Railway Company opens the Washington Street tunnel, East Boston streetcar tunnel, and Atlantic Avenue elevated.
Source
Stephen P. Carlson with Thomas W. Harding, “Boston - In, Over & Under the Hub,” in From Boston to the Berkshires, 11-41 (Boston Street Railway Association, Inc., 1990). - 1909
- Boston Elevated Railway Company extends the elevated railway to Forest Hills.
Source
Stephen P. Carlson with Thomas W. Harding, “Boston - In, Over & Under the Hub,” in From Boston to the Berkshires, 11-41 (Boston Street Railway Association, Inc., 1990). - 1912
- Boston Elevated Railway Company opens the Cambridge subway between Harvard Square and Park Street.
Source
Stephen P. Carlson with Thomas W. Harding, “Boston - In, Over & Under the Hub,” in From Boston to the Berkshires, 11-41 (Boston Street Railway Association, Inc., 1990). - 1914
- Boston Elevated Railway Company completes construction of the Boylston Street tunnel.
Source
Stephen P. Carlson with Thomas W. Harding, “Boston - In, Over & Under the Hub,” in From Boston to the Berkshires, 11-41 (Boston Street Railway Association, Inc., 1990). - 1916
- Boston Elevated Railway Company extends the East Boston tunnel to Bowdoin Square.
Source
Stephen P. Carlson with Thomas W. Harding, “Boston - In, Over & Under the Hub,” in From Boston to the Berkshires, 11-41 (Boston Street Railway Association, Inc., 1990). - 1918
- Boston Elevated Railway Company management is taken over by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts under the Public Control Act of 1918.
Source
Stephen P. Carlson with Thomas W. Harding, “Boston - In, Over & Under the Hub,” in From Boston to the Berkshires, 11-41 (Boston Street Railway Association, Inc., 1990). - 1918
- Boston Elevated Railway Company opens an extension of the Cambridge subway to Andrew Square.
Source
Stephen P. Carlson with Thomas W. Harding, “Boston - In, Over & Under the Hub,” in From Boston to the Berkshires, 11-41 (Boston Street Railway Association, Inc., 1990). - 1919
- Boston Elevated Railway Company extends the elevated railway to Everett.
Source
Stephen P. Carlson with Thomas W. Harding, “Boston - In, Over & Under the Hub,” in From Boston to the Berkshires, 11-41 (Boston Street Railway Association, Inc., 1990). - 1922
- Boston Elevated Railway Company purchases its first bus.
Source
Stephen P. Carlson with Thomas W. Harding, “Boston - In, Over & Under the Hub,” in From Boston to the Berkshires, 11-41 (Boston Street Railway Association, Inc., 1990). - June 10, 1922
- West End Street Railway Company consolidates into Boston Elevated Railway Company.
Source
“West End Street Railway,” Wikipedia, December 17, 2022, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_End_Street_Railway. - 1923
- Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Company Hyde Park Division is leased to Boston Elevated Railway Company.
Source
Stephen P. Carlson with Thomas W. Harding, “Newport to Nashua - The Bay State/Eastern Mass. System,” in From Boston to the Berkshires, 43-65 (Boston Street Railway Association, Inc., 1990). - 1924
- Boston Elevated Railway Company converts the East Boston streetcar tunnel to rapid transit.
Source
Stephen P. Carlson with Thomas W. Harding, “Boston - In, Over & Under the Hub,” in From Boston to the Berkshires, 11-41 (Boston Street Railway Association, Inc., 1990). - 1927-1929
- Boston Elevated Railway Company converts the The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company Shawmut and Milton Branches to the Dorchester subway and Mattapan-Ashmont streetcar line.
Source
Stephen P. Carlson with Thomas W. Harding, “Boston - In, Over & Under the Hub,” in From Boston to the Berkshires, 11-41 (Boston Street Railway Association, Inc., 1990). - 1932
- Boston Elevated Railway Company opens the Kenmore extension.
Source
Stephen P. Carlson with Thomas W. Harding, “Boston - In, Over & Under the Hub,” in From Boston to the Berkshires, 11-41 (Boston Street Railway Association, Inc., 1990). - June 1936
- Boston Elevated Railway Company acquires the property of Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Company Chelsea Division.
Source
Stephen P. Carlson with Thomas W. Harding, “Boston - In, Over & Under the Hub,” in From Boston to the Berkshires, 11-41 (Boston Street Railway Association, Inc., 1990). - October 1, 1938
- Boston Elevated Railway Company ceases operations of the Atlantic Avenue elevated.
Source
Stephen P. Carlson with Thomas W. Harding, “Boston - In, Over & Under the Hub,” in From Boston to the Berkshires, 11-41 (Boston Street Railway Association, Inc., 1990). - 1941
- Boston Elevated Railway Company opens the Huntington Avenue subway.
Source
Stephen P. Carlson with Thomas W. Harding, “Boston - In, Over & Under the Hub,” in From Boston to the Berkshires, 11-41 (Boston Street Railway Association, Inc., 1990). - 1947
- Boston Elevated Railway Company property is acquired by Metropolitan Transit Authority.
Source
Stephen P. Carlson with Thomas W. Harding, “Boston - In, Over & Under the Hub,” in From Boston to the Berkshires, 11-41 (Boston Street Railway Association, Inc., 1990).
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