Bus routes in East Cambridge already terminated at Lechmere station to the west, while Charlestown routes 92 and 93 already extended to Haymarket station along historic streetcar routings. Unlike the four other original stations on the Haymarket North Extension, Community College was not built with a busway. The second platform is open for outbound passengers at busy Sullivan Square and Wellington, but at less-busy Community College it sits unused.
However, the Orange Line extension was cut short to Oak Grove due to local opposition in Melrose, and no express service ever ran. (Continuing commuter rail service to Andover and Haverhill was to be via the Wildcat Branch). This extra infrastructure was to be used for the Orange Line's planned extension to Reading to replace commuter rail service on the line.
#College station plus#
Like the Sullivan Square and Wellington stations, Community College was built with a second island platform serving the outbound track plus a third express track. The Main Line had previously been renamed as the Orange Line in 1967, as part of a systemwide rebranding by the newly formed MBTA. The new route opened to Sullivan Square on April 7, 1975. Community College station was built to replace the two elevated stops nearby in Charlestown. From there, the extension was built along the Haverhill Line commuter rail right of way. It included a tunnel segment north from Haymarket through a new underground stop at North Station, then under the Charles River to a portal south of the Gilmore Bridge.
In the late 1960s, the MBTA began work on the Haymarket North Extension project. In 1917, the elevated structure was slated to be replaced with a more permanent subway line along the same Main Street routing, but this project was canceled by the US's entry into World War I. The elevated was unpopular with many local residents, as it was noisy and blocked out sunlight to Main Street. The Thompson Square station was located one-third of a mile east of the current station along Austin Street at Main Street, while the City Square station was located half a mile south along Rutherford Avenue at Chelsea Street. The Charlestown Elevated section of the Boston Elevated Railway's Main Line opened in June 1901, with three elevated stations in Charlestown. For some period after the Fitchburg's Boston terminal replaced its Charlestown terminal in 1848, a flag stop was made at the Prison Point Bridge. The Fitchburg and B&M had substantial freight depots nearby, and the B&M briefly had a Charlestown station around the 1850s. The Fitchburg crossed the B&M and the Eastern at Prison Point (then the site of a substantial state prison), near the modern location of Community College station. At that time, Charlestown was separated from East Cambridge by a large cove, Millers River. (Not until North Union Station in 1893 did they share a depot). History Previous stations įor much of the 19th century, the four major northside railroads (the Fitchburg, Boston and Lowell (B&L), Boston and Maine (B&M), and Eastern) did not share any trackage on the approach to Boston. A footbridge also connects the mezzanine directly to BHCC. The mezzanine is connected to the north sidewalk of the Gilmore Bridge, which carries Austin Street over the Orange Line and the North Station approach tracks.
A fare mezzanine is located over the tracks at the south end of the station. The east platform and track are not used for revenue service. Only the west platform is in use inbound (southbound) tracks use the west track, with outbound trains using the center track. The station has two island platforms and three tracks. → Orange Line toward Oak Grove ( Sullivan Square) → ← Orange Line toward Forest Hills ( North Station) East Cambridge and the NorthPoint development are to the southwest, with the MBTA Commuter Rail Maintenance Facility and the Inner Belt District industrial park to the northwest and highway ramps to the southeast.Įxit/entrance, buses, station house, fare control Community College station is built under the double-decked elevated I-93 highwayĬommunity College station is located under the double-decked elevated Interstate 93 at the southwest edge of Charlestown, Boston, just south of Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC) and west of New Rutherford Avenue ( Route 99).
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