Fairmount

The Fairmount Line is the shortest MBTA commuter rail line and the only one which runs entirely within the city limits of Boston. Originally built as part of the Norfolk County Railroad, the line opened in 1855 and was extended to Walpole, Franklin and Providence. Originally the line ran through South Boston and across the Fort Point Channel to reach its terminal. By 1898 the line had been leased to J.P. Morgan’s NY, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and when South Station opened the following year the original alignment through South Boston was abandoned. Passenger service was ended in 1944 but when the MBTA was building their Southwest Corridor rail project (rebuilding the Orange Line and Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor) they upgraded the Fairmount Line and rerouted all passenger service starting in 1979. When the Southwest Corridor opening in 1987 all service south of Readville was rerouted and the Fairmount Line was reduced to a shuttle. In the early 2000s planners and community advocates proposed adding stations and more service to the line to act as a new subway line, the Indigo Line. Four new stations were added as well as additional service but service remains less than rapid transit levels (mostly due to the use of diesel engines) and fares are higher than that of the subway and bus, limiting potential ridership.

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