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Shawmut Branch Railroad

RED LINE
RedLineCharlesMGH.jpg
Red Line train leaving Charles/MGH station outbound over the Longfellow Bridge
Overview
Type Rapid transit
Locale Boston, Massachusetts
Termini Alewife
Ashmont or Braintree
Stations 22
Services 2
Daily ridership 281,506 (2016)
Operation
Opened March 23, 1912
Owner Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
Operator(s) Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
Character Subway, Grade-separated ROW
Rolling stock 1500, 1600, 1700, 1800 Series
Technical
Line length 11.5 miles (18.5 km) Alewife–Ashmont
17.5 miles (28.2 km) Alewife–Braintree
22.5 miles (36.2 km) total
Track gauge 4 ft 8 12 in (1,435 mm)
Electrification Third rail
Route map
Alewife Yard
Alewife
Davis
Porter MBTA.svg
Stadium (
special events only
closed 1967
)
Eliot Street Yard
Harvard/Brattle (closed 1983)
Bennett Street Portal
Harvard
Harvard (pre-1981 location)
Harvard/Holyoke (closed 1983)
Central
Kendall/MIT
Longfellow Bridge incline
Charles River
Charles/MGH
Park Street  Green Line 
Winter Street Concourse
Downtown Crossing  Orange  Silver  Green 
South Station  Silver Line  MBTA.svg Amtrak
Cabot Yard

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