The Boston Elevated Railway (BERy) was a precursor first to the Metropolitan Transit Authority in Massachusetts, now the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, operating rapid transit, streetcars and buses in the Boston, Massachusetts area. It was formerly known as the West End Street Railway.
The rapid transit lines have evolved into the Red, Blue and Orange Lines. The only streetcars that remain are the various branches of the Green Line and the Ashmont-Mattapan High Speed Line; the rest have been converted to buses.
The Boston Elevated Railway operated in the following cities and towns:
- Arlington
- Belmont
- Boston and the municipalities that have been merged into it
- Brookline
- Cambridge
- Chelsea
- Everett
- Malden
- Medford
- Newton (only to get between Boston and Watertown)
- Revere
- Somerville
- Stoneham (only the southern bit, in the Middlesex Fells)
- Watertown
Additionally, streetcars from adjoining towns, run by other companies, operated over Boston Elevated Railway trackage.
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