Bowdoin station
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BOWDOIN
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Wedge-shaped island platform at Bowdoin station
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| Location | Cambridge Street at New Chardon and Bowdoin Streets Boston, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°21′41″N 71°03′44″W / 42.3614°N 71.0622°WCoordinates: 42°21′41″N 71°03′44″W / 42.3614°N 71.0622°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority | ||||||||||
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| Platforms | 1 wedge-shaped island platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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 MVRTA: Boston Commuter |
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| Opened | March 18, 1916 | ||||||||||
| Closed | January 3, 1981 - January 11, 1982 March 3, 1982 - April 20, 1982 |
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| Passengers (2013) | 1,526 (weekday average boardings) | ||||||||||
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Bowdoin station (/ˈboʊdɪn/) is a rapid transit station in Boston, Massachusetts. It serves the MBTA Blue Line. It is located in Bowdoin Square in the Beacon Hill neighborhood. It is the downtown terminus of the line (though Government Center served this role during nights and weekends from 1982 to 2014).
Bowdoin station is not handicapped accessible due to the tight dimensions of the 1916-built station. After the new handicapped accessible Wollaston station on the Red Line reopens in summer 2019, Bowdoin will be the only heavy rail MBTA station that is not accessible.
The East Boston Tunnel was opened to streetcar service as far as Court Street on December 30, 1904. Court Street proved to be a problematic terminus; its single-track design limited frequent service, and also resulted in crashes. The Boston Elevated Railway (BERy) began an extension towards Beacon Hill in 1912. The extension opened to Bowdoin with an intermediate stop at Scollay Under on March 18, 1916.
Bowdoin was built with an unusual wedge-shaped island platform inside a balloon loop, which eliminated the awkward end-changing required at Court Street and allowed use of unpowered trailer cars in the tunnel to increase capacity. A pair of tracks continued past the loop, out the Joy Street Portal, and down Cambridge Street, allowing for one route to provide through streetcar service from East Boston to Cambridge rather than looping at Bowdoin.
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