A report on Watertown Yard

A PCC streetcar (left) and a work car in Watertown Yard in 1967
Watertown Carhouse in 2021

Bus maintenance facility and former streetcar carhouse located in the southern section of Watertown, Massachusetts, across the Charles River from Watertown Square.

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An A branch streetcar on Cambridge Street in 1968

Green Line A branch

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Streetcar line in the Boston, Massachusetts, area, operating as a branch of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Green Line.

Streetcar line in the Boston, Massachusetts, area, operating as a branch of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Green Line.

An A branch streetcar on Cambridge Street in 1968
A route 57 bus at Union Square, Allston, in July 2021
1967 map of branches of the newly named Green Line, showing the "A" branch
A 1910 postcard of two streetcars at the Public Garden incline. The left car is bound for Watertown via North Beacon Street; the right is bound for Park Street from Union Square.
The A branch ran in mixed traffic for much of its length, causing it to be slow and unreliable.
Former stub remains of A branch tracks at . The switch was disconnected in 2014 and paved over in 2020.
A route 57 bus at Kenmore in 2018
A route 501 bus in Brighton Center in 2016
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Remnants of the tracks are still visible today in the Watertown Yard bus terminal (no longer used for railcar maintenance), as well as a short stub track at Packard's Corner, where the "A" branch used to diverge from the "B" branch.

Watertown, Massachusetts

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City in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and is part of Greater Boston.

City in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and is part of Greater Boston.

Saltonstall's landing spot in Watertown, also known as Elbridge Gerry Landing
Edmund Fowle House, built in the 1700s and used by the Massachusetts government during the Revolutionary War
Browne House, built c. 1694
St. Stephen Armenian Apostolic Church
Hairenik Association building – Watertown, Mass.
Benjamin Robbins Curtis
Eliza Dushku

Most of them pass through or terminate in Watertown Square or Watertown Yard.

Newton Corner station

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Streetcar and passenger rail station in the Newton Corner neighborhood of Newton, Massachusetts, located near where Washington Street crosses the Massachusetts Turnpike.

Streetcar and passenger rail station in the Newton Corner neighborhood of Newton, Massachusetts, located near where Washington Street crosses the Massachusetts Turnpike.

Early photograph of the pre-1880s depot
A branch streetcars just south of the rotary in 1965
Location of former trolley platforms photographed in 2013
The bus stop on the south side of the Newton Corner rotary in March 2013
The bus stop on the north side of the Newton Corner rotary in March 2013

On December 9, 1912, the transfer point was changed from Nonantum Square to Watertown Yard.

The Watertown Bridge from the north bank of the Charles River looking west

Watertown Bridge

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Five-lane traffic bridge over the Charles River, carrying Rt. 16 and Galen Street.

Five-lane traffic bridge over the Charles River, carrying Rt. 16 and Galen Street.

The Watertown Bridge from the north bank of the Charles River looking west

It connects Watertown Square on the north side and Watertown Yard on the south side of Watertown, Massachusetts.