The Cambridge subway, also known as the Cambridge tunnel, or later the Cambridge–Dorchester line, was the heavy-rail rapid-transit line between Park Street Under in Boston and Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that became the backbone of the MBTA Red Line.
Opened in 1912 with all stations underground, the line included tunnels on both sides of the Charles River and an above-ground section on the recently built Cambridge Bridge (now Longfellow Bridge) across the Charles River.
At the Boston end of the bridge, the Boston Elevated Railway built a new elevated structure to near Lindall Place, where the tracks entered the new Beacon Hill tunnel constructed by the Boston Transit Commission, connecting to the southern terminus under the Park Street station of the Tremont Street subway.
[1] Shortly after the line opened, work on extensions to South Station and to Andrew Square, Dorchester, was undertaken;[2] the Dorchester Tunnel to Andrew Square opened July 1, 1917.
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