TRANSIT SYSTEMS IN MASSACHUSETTS

NORTH OF BOSTON (MBTA/EXPANDED AREA)


CURRENT TRANSIT SYSTEM (SINCE 1964)
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

Provides comprehensive transit coverage throughout this large area.


BOSTON/HISTORIC DETAIL

Route History (City)
Route History (Suburbs)


Lynn

Horse Car
1854-1901 - Lynn & Boston Railroad Co.
1891-1892 - horse cars replaced with electric streetcars

Electric Streetcar
1890-1892 - Lynn Belt Line Street Railway Co.

1901-1911 - Boston & Northern Street Railway Co.
1911-1919 - Bay State Street Railway Co.
1919-1968 - Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Co.
1937 - streetcars discontinued

Beverly

Battery Car
1889-1892 - Beverly & Danvers Street Railway Co.

Electric Streetcar
1896-1901 - Beverly & Danvers Street Railway Co.
1901-1911 - Boston & Northern Street Railway Co.
1911-1919 - Bay State Street Railway Co.
1919-1968 - Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Co.
1923 - buses introduced
1937 - streetcars discontinued
1920-1952 - Hemeon Motor Coach Service (supplemental service)
1952-1963 - Michaud Bus Line (supplemental service)

Salem

Horse Car
1875-1892 - Naumkeag Street Railway Co.
1884-1887 - Salem & Danvers Street Railway Co.
1890-1891 - horse cars replaced with electric streetcars

Electric Streetcar
1890-1892 - Essex Electric Street Railway Co.
1892-1901 - Lynn & Boston Railroad Co.
1901-1911 - Boston & Northern Street Railway Co.
1911-1919 - Bay State Street Railway Co.
1919-1968 - Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Co.
1937 - streetcars discontinued
1919-1995 - Michaud Bus Line (supplemental service)

Stoneham

Horse Car
1885-1887 - Stoneham Street Railroad Co.
1887-1893 - East Middlesex Street Railway Co.
1893-1901 - Lynn & Boston Railroad Co.
1894-1897 - horse cars replaced with electric streetcars

1901-1911 - Boston & Northern Street Railway Co.
1911-1919 - Bay State Street Railway Co.
1919-1968 - Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Co.
1923 - buses introduced
1946 - streetcars discontinued

Woburn

Horse Car
1866-1886 - North Woburn Horse Railroad
1886-1897 - North Woburn Street Railway Co.
1896 - horse cars replaced with electric streetcars

1897-1901 - North Woburn Street Railroad Co.
1901-1911 - Boston & Northern Street Railway Co.
1911-1919 - Bay State Street Railway Co.
1919-1968 - Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Co.
1923 - buses introduced
1946 - streetcars discontinued

ADDITIONAL HISTORIC ELECTRIC RAILWAYS
(Most company names also describe the routes)
1892-1900 - Wakefield & Stoneham Street Railway Co. (Wakefield-Stoneham/Melrose/Lynn/Reading)
1900 to Lynn & Boston Railroad Co./above
1896-1899 - Mystic Valley Street Railway Co. (Stoneham-Winchester)
1899 to Wakefield & Stoneham Street Railway Co./above
1897-1898 - Arlington & Winchester Street Railway Co.
1898 to Mystic Valley Street Railway Co./above
1897-1901 - North Woburn Street Railroad Co. (Medford-Woburn-North Woburn)
above
1896-1899 - Woburn & Reading Street Railway Co.
1899 to Wakefield & Stoneham Street Railway Co./above
1895-1899 - Reading & Lowell Street Railway
1899 to Wakefield & Stoneham Street Railway Co./above
1898-1899 - Salem & Wakefield Street Railway Co.
1899 to Wakefield & Stoneham Street Railway Co./above

Saugus

electric railways and replacement bus lines
also connected with adjoining areas
1922-1939 - Hart Bus Lines
1939-1940 - Saugus Transit
1940-1956 - Rapid Transit Inc.
1956-1972 - Saugus Transit
1972-1975 - Service Bus Line

Wakefield

electric railways and replacement bus lines
also connected with adjoining areas
1945-1973 - Hudson Bus Lines

Reading

electric railways and replacement bus lines
also connected with adjoining areas
1947-1963 - McIntire Bus Lines

Peabody

electric railways and replacement bus lines
also connected with adjoining areas
1933-1959 - Hudson Bus Lines
1959-1976 - Lynnfield Community

Burlington

1931-1952 - Holland Brothers Bus Line
1952-1971 - Vocell Bus Co.

Lynnfield

1918-1976 - Lynnfield Community

North Reading

1925-1939 - Mason's Bus Line
1939-1952 - Lane's Bus Service
1952-1963 - McIntire Bus Lines

Winthrop

1928-1940 - Boston Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad
1940-1991 - Rapid Transit Inc.


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