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Capen Street (MBTA Station)
Capen Street station is a light rail station in Milton, Massachusetts. It serves the MBTA Ashmont–Mattapan High Speed Line. It is located on Capen Street off Eliot Street; the westernmost of the four MBTA stations in Milton, it consists of two side platforms flanking the eponymous street's grade crossing. The platforms are staggered to allow trains to make the stop at Capen Street before crossing the street itself, as there is no signal at the grade crossing. Capen Street is MBTA accessibility, accessible via wooden ramps on both platforms. Capen Street opened in September 1930 as an infill station on the line. History The Dorchester and Milton Branch Railroad opened from Neponset to in December 1847. Service was discontinued on August 26, 1929, as the Ashmont-Mattapan High Speed Line, new high-speed trolley line was completed from to by the Boston Elevated Railway (BERy). The trolley line was extended from Milton to Mattapan on December 21, 1929, with new intermediate stop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milton, Massachusetts
Milton is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States and an affluent suburb of Boston. The population was 28,630 at the 2020 census. Milton is the birthplace of former U.S. President George H. W. Bush, and architect Buckminster Fuller. Milton was ranked by Money as the 2nd, 7th, 8th, and 17th best place to live in the United States in 2011, 2009, 2019, 2021, and 2022 respectively. Milton is located in the relatively hilly area between the Neponset River and Blue Hills, bounded by Brush Hill to the west, Milton Hill to the east, Blue Hills to the south and the Neponset River to the north. It is also bordered by Boston's Dorchester and Mattapan neighborhoods to the north and its Hyde Park neighborhood to the west; Quincy to the southeast; Randolph to the south, and Canton to the west. History Indigenous peoples The area now known as Milton was inhabited for tens of thousands of years prior to European colonization. The Paleoamerican archaeological site Fowl Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Railway Stations In Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prepared flat surface, rail vehicles (rolling stock) are directionally guided by the tracks on which they run. Tracks usually consist of steel rails, installed on sleepers (ties) set in ballast, on which the rolling stock, usually fitted with metal wheels, moves. Other variations are also possible, such as "slab track", in which the rails are fastened to a concrete foundation resting on a prepared subsurface. Rolling stock in a rail transport system generally encounters lower frictional resistance than rubber-tyred road vehicles, so passenger and freight cars (carriages and wagons) can be coupled into longer trains. The operation is carried out by a railway company, providing transport between train stations or freight customer facilit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Line (MBTA) Stations
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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 twin-track routes due to pragmatic and cost reasons. They are also useful within larger stations where local and express services for the same direction of travel can be provided from opposite sides of the same platform thereby simplifying transfers between the two tracks. An alternative arrangement is to position side platforms on either side of the tracks. The historical use of island platforms depends greatly upon the location. In the United Kingdom the use of island platforms is relatively common when the railway line is in a cutting or raised on an embankment, as this makes it easier to provide access to the platform without walking across the tracks. Advantages and tradeoffs Island platforms are necessary for any station with m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Accessibility
Accessibility is the design of products, devices, services, vehicles, or environments so as to be usable by people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design and practice of accessible development ensures both "direct access" (i.e. unassisted) and "indirect access" meaning compatibility with a person's assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). Accessibility can be viewed as the "ability to access" and benefit from some system or entity. The concept focuses on enabling access for people with disabilities, or enabling access through the use of assistive technology; however, research and development in accessibility brings benefits to everyone. Accessibility is not to be confused with usability, which is the extent to which a product (such as a device, service, or environment) can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency, convenience, or satisfaction in a specified context of use. Accessibility is also s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butler Station (MBTA)
Butler station is a light rail station in Boston, Massachusetts. It serves the MBTA Ashmont–Mattapan High-Speed Line. It is located at Butler Street in the Lower Mills section of the Dorchester neighborhood. It serves a small residential area sandwiched between the Neponset River, Cedar Grove Cemetery, and Dorchester Park. Butler station has no MBTA bus connections. It is accessible via a wooden mini-high ramp on the station's single island platform. History Old Colony branches In December 1847, the Dorchester and Milton Branch Railroad opened from Neponset to and was immediately leased by the Old Colony Railroad as its Milton branch. The Old Colony built its Shawmut Branch Railroad from Harrison Square to Milton Lower Mills in December 1872, joining the Milton branch east of Butler. The area that is now the small Butler Street neighborhood was still empty land in the 1870s, but was developed by the late 1880s. The Old Colony Railroad became part of the New Haven Railroad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flag Stop
In public transport, a request stop, flag stop, or whistle stop is a stop or station at which buses or trains, respectively, stop only on request; that is, only if there are passengers or freight to be picked up or dropped off. In this way, stops with low passenger counts can be incorporated into a route without introducing unnecessary delay. Vehicles may also save fuel by continuing through a station when there is no need to stop. There may not always be significant savings on time if there is no one to pick up because vehicles going past a request stop may need to slow down enough to be able to stop if there are passengers waiting. Request stops may also introduce extra travel time variability and increase the need for schedule padding. The appearance of request stops varies greatly. Many are clearly signed, but many others rely on local knowledge. Implementations The methods by which transit vehicles are notified that there are passengers waiting to be picked up at a requ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston Elevated Railway
The Boston Elevated Railway (BERy) was a streetcar and rapid transit railroad operated on, above, and below, the streets of Boston, Massachusetts and surrounding communities. Founded in 1894, it eventually acquired the West End Street Railway via lease and merger to become the city's primary mass transit provider. Its modern successor is the state-run Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), which continues to operate in part on infrastructure developed by BERy and its predecessors. History Originally intended to build a short electric trolley line to Brookline, the West End Street Railway was organized in 1887. By the next year it had consolidated ownership of a number of horse-drawn streetcar lines, composing a fleet of 7,816 horses and 1,480 rail vehicles. As the system grew, a switch to underground pulled-cable propulsion (modeled after the San Francisco cable cars) was contemplated. After visiting Frank Sprague and witnessing the Richmond, Virgi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capen Street Inbound Platform, March 2016
Capen may refer to: * 11696 Capen, main belt asteroid * Capen (crater), crater on Mars *Capen Street (MBTA station), station on MBTA's Ashmont-Mattapan High Speed Line * Parson Capen House, built in 1683 as the home of local pastor the Reverend Joseph Capen *Elisha Capen Monk, American businessman and politician Surname *Charles L. Capen (1845–1927), Illinois lawyer *Elmer Hewitt Capen (1838–1905), the third president of Tufts College (now Tufts University) * Jerry Capen, fictional character on the American TV series ''The Larry Sanders Show'' * Joseph Capen (1658–1725), minister in Topsfield, Massachusetts, from 1681 to his death *Nahum Capen (1804–1886), American author and editor * Richard Goodwin Capen Jr. (born 1934), American ambassador *Ruth G. Capen (1893–1974), American chemist *Samuel Capen (1848–1943), sheriff of Norfolk County, Massachusetts *Samuel P. Capen (1878–1956), American educational administrator *Stephen Capen Stephen Harold Capen (February 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorchester And Milton Branch Railroad
The Dorchester and Milton Branch Railroad was a railroad in Massachusetts. It was incorporated in 1846 as a branch off the Old Colony Railroad main line from Boston to Plymouth. The 3.3 mile road was completed on December 1, 1847, from Neponset Village in Dorchester, Massachusetts, through the town of Milton to the village of Mattapan. The line was leased to the Old Colony Railroad from January 1, 1848 to January 1, 1856, and operated under contract by the Old Colony from 1856 to 1863, when it was merged into the Old Colony and Fall River Railroad Company. In 1893, it became part of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad as part of the lease of the entire Old Colony Railroad network. In 1854 an extension of approximately 0.5 miles west-southwest was proposed, which would have extended the line from the Upper Mills (site of today's Mattapan station) to a connection with the Boston and New York Central railroad (today's Fairmount Line) approximately midway between today' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capen Street Stop-on-signal Station, 1930
Capen may refer to: * 11696 Capen, main belt asteroid * Capen (crater), crater on Mars *Capen Street (MBTA station), station on MBTA's Ashmont-Mattapan High Speed Line * Parson Capen House, built in 1683 as the home of local pastor the Reverend Joseph Capen *Elisha Capen Monk, American businessman and politician Surname *Charles L. Capen (1845–1927), Illinois lawyer *Elmer Hewitt Capen (1838–1905), the third president of Tufts College (now Tufts University) * Jerry Capen, fictional character on the American TV series ''The Larry Sanders Show'' * Joseph Capen (1658–1725), minister in Topsfield, Massachusetts, from 1681 to his death *Nahum Capen (1804–1886), American author and editor * Richard Goodwin Capen Jr. (born 1934), American ambassador *Ruth G. Capen (1893–1974), American chemist *Samuel Capen (1848–1943), sheriff of Norfolk County, Massachusetts *Samuel P. Capen (1878–1956), American educational administrator *Stephen Capen Stephen Harold Capen (February 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
