South Station (Boston, Massachusetts)
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train station, bus station
Regional and commuter railway station.
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From wikipedia:
South Station, located at Atlantic Avenue and Summer Street, in the U.S. city of Boston, Massachusetts, is a major intermodal transportation hub. Its facilities include:
* the northern terminus of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor train service, including Acela Express high-speed trains and Regional local trains. There is also a daily Amtrak overnight train to Chicago — the Lake Shore Limited.
* the city terminus of the southern and western routes of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) commuter rail system.
* a station stop on the Boston subway's Red Line.
* the eastern terminus of Phase 2 of the Silver Line, with direct service to all Logan Airport terminals and to the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center
* Boston's main inter-city bus terminal.
* local bus service.
* parking garage.
* staffed ticket windows.
* a food court and waiting area.
* public art, including a sculpture built of railroad car couplers and a model of the planet Jupiter, part of the Museum of Science's scale model of the solar system
Several MBTA commuter rail lines plus Amtrak's Downeaster service to Maine originate from North Station, about 1¼ miles (2 km) around the Boston peninsula from South Station. No direct rail link exists between the two stations, although MBTA bus subway connections exist; see MBTA Commuter Rail and North-South Rail Link.
www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?c=am2Station&pagen...
www.trainweb.org/usarail/boston_south.htm
www.railpassengerusa.com/powerpoint/LakeShore%20Boston/...
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From wikipedia:
South Station, located at Atlantic Avenue and Summer Street, in the U.S. city of Boston, Massachusetts, is a major intermodal transportation hub. Its facilities include:
* the northern terminus of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor train service, including Acela Express high-speed trains and Regional local trains. There is also a daily Amtrak overnight train to Chicago — the Lake Shore Limited.
* the city terminus of the southern and western routes of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) commuter rail system.
* a station stop on the Boston subway's Red Line.
* the eastern terminus of Phase 2 of the Silver Line, with direct service to all Logan Airport terminals and to the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center
* Boston's main inter-city bus terminal.
* local bus service.
* parking garage.
* staffed ticket windows.
* a food court and waiting area.
* public art, including a sculpture built of railroad car couplers and a model of the planet Jupiter, part of the Museum of Science's scale model of the solar system
Several MBTA commuter rail lines plus Amtrak's Downeaster service to Maine originate from North Station, about 1¼ miles (2 km) around the Boston peninsula from South Station. No direct rail link exists between the two stations, although MBTA bus subway connections exist; see MBTA Commuter Rail and North-South Rail Link.
www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?c=am2Station&pagen...
www.trainweb.org/usarail/boston_south.htm
www.railpassengerusa.com/powerpoint/LakeShore%20Boston/...
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Station_(Boston)
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 42°21'1"N 71°3'20"W
- MBTA Attleboro Station 49 km
- Norfolk Southern Railway and Pan Am Railways Intermodal Yard 228 km
- Construction of Rivière des Prairies train station (opens in 2015) 419 km
- Abandoned/Sunken Cobourgh and Peterborough Railway Trestle Bridge across Rice Lake 614 km
- Original Wye from the Lindsay, Bobcaygeon, and Pontypool Railway 640 km
- Original Grand Trunk Railway Route 650 km
- CNR/CPR Lindsay Exchange Area between CPR Bobcaygeon/Port Mcnicoll Subs and CNR Midland Sub 660 km
- Canadian Pacific Railway through Lindsay (GB&S & LB&P) 661 km
- Victoria Railway from Union Station To GB&S Overpass 662 km
- Howland Junction 671 km
- Financial District 0.7 km
- Seaport District 1.6 km
- Marine Industrial Park 2 km
- South Boston 2.2 km
- South Bay 2.8 km
- The "Old" Harbor 2.9 km
- Pleasure Bay 3.6 km
- East Boston 4 km
- Logan International Airport (BOS/KBOS) 4.1 km
- Dorchester 5.7 km