History
Dudley Station formerly served Orange Line trains on the Washington Street Elevated, with two elevated streetcar loops and additional service on the ground level.
The Boston Elevated Railway opened the Washington Street Elevated on June 10, 1901, terminating at Dudley. Many streetcar routes that had operated to downtown, some into the Tremont Street Subway, now terminated at the loops at Dudley, where cross-platform transfers were available to elevated trains.
The el was extended south on November 22, 1909, reaching its maximum distance, Forest Hills. The loop allowing trains to return downtown from Dudley was kept, and a new southbound platform was added (as both original platforms were on the northbound track).
Over the years, streetcar service to Dudley was replaced with buses.
Trains last ran to Dudley on April 30, 1987, and the relocated Orange Line opened on May 4, 1987. The old station sat untouched for a while, but was partially torn down and replaced with a simpler surface-level station which was made partly with new structures (platforms D, E, and F facing east-west, also known as the "Harvard side") and the preexisting el structure (platforms A, B, and C facing north-south, also known as the "Allston side"). The Silver Line, the MBTA's replacement service for the Washington Street Elevated, officially replaced the 49 bus route on July 20, 2002, and runs between Dudley and Downtown Crossing. On October 13, 2009, this service was re-designated the SL5 and a new SL 4 service was added that runs between Dudley and South Station, sharing most of the same route.
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