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stations in
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and surrounding municipalities. All stations are operated by the
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. This list includes all
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, light rail, and bus rapid transit (BRT) stations currently open on the MBTA's subway system. , the system has 153 stops and stations served by the Green, Blue, Red, Orange, and Silver lines. These range in scale from marked stops on the Green and Silver lines with no fixed infrastructure, to sprawling underground complexes at the downtown transfer stations. Stations are typically named after nearby streets, squares, neighborhoods, or institutions—e.g., Park Street, Central, Chinatown, and
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, respectively. One additional Green Line station, Mystic Valley Parkway, is proposed but not funded. Boylston and Park Street stations, which opened in 1897, were the first two subway stations in the United States.


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File:Outbound Red Line train at South Station, June 2017.jpg, Averaging over 24,000 weekday boardings, South Station is the busiest MBTA subway station. File:Northbound Green Line train at Park Street station (2), July 2021.jpg, Park Street station is a busy transfer point for the Green Line and Red Line File:Inbound Red Line train at JFK UMass station, July 2021.jpg, JFK/UMass station is one of several transfer points between the subway and Commuter Rail systems. File:Outbound train at Suffolk Downs station, August 2018.JPG, Suffolk Downs station, a typical station outside the downtown core File:Outbound train at Massachusetts Avenue station, July 2019.JPG, Most newer rail stations, like Massachusetts Avenue, have
island platform An island platform (also center platform, centre platform) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange. Island platforms are popular on ...
s. File:Inbound train at Griggs Street station, August 2018.JPG, Griggs Street station, a typical non-accessible Green Line surface stop File:Inbound train at Fenway station, July 2019.JPG, Fenway station, an accessible stop on the Green Line D branch File:MBTA route SL5 bus at Union Park Street, July 2019.JPG, Union Park Street, a typical Silver Line street stop


Former stations


Closed without replacement

This listing includes stations that have closed during the MBTA era (since 1964) without replacement by another rapid transit station. Most former stops on
Green Line A branch The A branch or Watertown Line was a streetcar line in the Boston, Massachusetts, area, operating as a branch of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Green Line. The line ran from Watertown through Newton Corner, Brighton, and Allst ...
and the outer section of the
Green Line E branch The E branch (also referred to as the Huntington Avenue branch, or formerly as the Arborway Line) is a light rail line in Boston, Cambridge, Medford, and Somerville, Massachusetts, operating as part of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Aut ...
, which were merely marked stopping locations rather than platforms, are not listed.


Closed with replacement

This listing includes stations that have closed during the MBTA era (since 1964), but were replaced with another rapid transit station. This includes stations rebuilt nearby on a different routing of the same line (such as Forest Hills when the
Washington Street Elevated The Washington Street Elevated was an elevated segment of Boston's Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority subway system, comprising the southern stretch of the Orange Line. It ran from Chinatown through the South End and Roxbury, ending i ...
was replaced with the Southwest Corridor), temporary stations (such as Harvard/Brattle), and stations replaced with Silver Line stops (such as Dover). Most MBTA rapid transit stations have been rebuilt or substantially renovated on the same routing; these are not included.


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MBTA Subway The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) operates rapid transit (heavy rail), light rail, and bus rapid transit services in the Boston metropolitan area, collectively referred to as the rapid transit, subway, or the T system. The ...