Science Park (MBTA station)

SCIENCE PARK/WEST END
Elevated platforms after 2011 renovation, looking inbound (southeastward)
Location	Nashua & Charles Street at Charles River Dam at Leverett Circle, Boston MA.
Coordinates	42°22′00″N 71°04′03.5″W / 42.36667°N 71.067639°W / 42.36667; -71.067639Coordinates: 42°22′00″N 71°04′03.5″W / 42.36667°N 71.067639°W / 42.36667; -71.067639
Owned by	MBTA
Line(s)	Green Line "E" Branch
Platforms	2 side platforms
Construction
Parking	None available
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	August 20, 1955
Rebuilt	April 30 - November 4, 2011
Traffic
Passengers (2013)	1,042 (weekday average boardings)
Services
Preceding station   MBTA   Following station North Station toward Heath Street Green Line "E" Branch Lechmere Terminus

Science Park (signed as Science Park/West End) is an elevated light rail station on the MBTA Green Line, and is located at the Boston end of the Old Charles River Dam at Leverett Circle, near the intersection of Nashua Street and Charles Street (Storrow Drive). The station is located on the Lechmere Viaduct, which connects North Station to the Lechmere terminus of the Green Line. As of 2015^[update], the station is served only by the Green Line "E" Branch, which runs from Heath Street to Lechmere. The station is located at an area of land called Science Park, which it is named after. It is near the Boston Museum of Science.

Science Park is one of a small number of elevated rapid transit stations remaining in the MBTA system. (The only others are Beachmont on the Blue line; Malden Center on the Orange Line; and Wollaston, Charles/MGH, and Fields Corner on the Red Line.) Boston once had several elevated lines, but the Atlantic Avenue Elevated, Charlestown Elevated, Washington Street Elevated, and Causeway Elevated were all torn down in favor of subway and surface-level lines. The station is an infill station, since Green Line trains passed frequently on existing tracks through the site for many years, before the station was built.