Bowdoin station
Subway station in Boston, Massachusetts, US / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bowdoin station (/ˈboʊdɪn/ BOH-din) is a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) rapid transit station in Bowdoin Square in Boston, Massachusetts. The station is the downtown terminus of the Blue Line, part of the MBTA subway system. It has a single wedge-shaped island platform located inside a balloon loop. Bowdoin is the only Blue Line station that is not accessible.
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Location | Cambridge Street at New Chardon Street Boston, Massachusetts | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 42.3614°N 71.0622°W / 42.3614; -71.0622 | ||||||||||
Line(s) | East Boston Tunnel | ||||||||||
Platforms | 1 wedge-shaped island platform | ||||||||||
Tracks | 1 balloon loop | ||||||||||
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Structure type | Underground | ||||||||||
Accessible | No | ||||||||||
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Opened | March 18, 1916[1] | ||||||||||
Closed | January 3, 1981–January 11, 1982 March 3, 1982–April 20, 1982[1] | ||||||||||
Rebuilt | 1924, 1968 | ||||||||||
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FY2019 | 2,127 boardings (weekday average)[2] | ||||||||||
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Bowdoin opened in 1916 as part of an extension of the East Boston Tunnel, serving as the terminal for streetcar lines from East Boston. The line was converted to use high-floor trains in 1924, with raised platforms constructed at the stations. The station was modernized in 1968, with a new brutalist headhouse designed by Josep Lluís Sert. Bowdoin was closed for two periods in the early 1980s due to budget cuts; it was open for limited hours on weekdays only until 2014, when it returned to full-time service during the reconstruction of nearby Government Center station. The proposed Red–Blue connector would extend the Blue Line west to a Red Line transfer at Charles/MGH station, with Bowdoin station likely eliminated.