A report on Watertown, Massachusetts and Watertown Yard

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

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

Hairenik Association building – Watertown, Mass.

Watertown Carhouse is a 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.

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 501 bus in Brighton Center in 2016

The line ran from Watertown through Newton Corner, Brighton, and Allston to Kenmore Square, then used the Boylston Street subway and Tremont Street subway to reach Park Street station.

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.