The
Boston Green Line is the oldest
subway line in
North America;
it began operating in 1897.
Map of the Boston Green Line:
Lechmere (North end of the D(*), E lines)
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Science Park
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North Station ( Commuter Rail and Orange Line )
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Haymarket ( Orange Line )
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Government Center ( Blue Line ; North end of B, C lines
| and some D trains (*) )
Park Street ( Red Line )
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Boylston
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Arlington
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Copley (E line branches off here)
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+----------------------------------+
B, C, D lines | | E line
Hynes/ICA Prudential
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Kenmore (lines split) Symphony
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+-----------------+-----------------+ Northeastern
B | C | | D |
Blandford St. St. Mary's St. Fenway Museum of Fine Arts
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B. U. East Hawes St. Longwood Longwood Medical Area
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B. U. Central Kent St. Brookline Village Brigham Circle
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B. U. West St. Paul St. Brookline Hills Fenwood Rd.
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St. Paul St. Coolidge Corner Beaconsfield Mission Park
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Pleasant St. Summit Ave. Reservoir Riverway
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Babcock St. Brandon Hall Chestnut Hill Back of the Hill
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Packards Corner Fairbanks St. Newton Center Heath Street
| | | (End of E line)
Fordham Rd. Washington Sq. Newton Highlands
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Harvard Ave. Tappan St. Eliot
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Griggs St. Dean Rd. Waban
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Allston St. Englewood Ave. Woodland
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Warren St. Cleveland Circle Riverside
| (End of C line) (End of D line)
Summit Ave.
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Washington St.
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Mt. Hood Rd.
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Sutherland Rd.
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Chiswick Rd.
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Chestnut Hill Ave.
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South St.
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Greycliff Rd.
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Boston College
(End of B line)
(*) Some D trains end their runs at Government Center - up to half of them, depending on whatever the MBTA decides to do at any given time.
The Green line is part subway, part streetcar, and part el (elevated train). The tracks leap out of the ground north of Haymarket to form the start of the elevated section at North Station, and continue elevated before returning to ground level across the Charles River at Lechmere. The B/C/D/E lines run as streetcars for most of the length after the splits.
The MBTA has committed to reopening the Jamaica Plain portion of the Green Line E, which continues on from Heath Street down to the Arborway where it meets up with the end of the Orange Line at Forest Hills.
There used to be an A Line which split off from the B Line a bit past the Kenmore split, but it closed in 1969, originally "temporarily", but the MBTA has finally, recently, started removing the tracks. This route is now served by buses.
There is also a long-standing desire by the MBTA to extend the north end of the green line on to Tufts University in Somerville. This plan got a boost recently from a developer who plans to renovate the old rail yard and other abandoned property north of the Lechmere station, and also pay for a renovation and part of the extension of the Green Line. But I'm not counting on anything happening here any time soon.