Brattle Loop in service (temporarily)

I was visiting Boston yesterday and was curious about how Green Line service was operating in the subway. E Trains are running the full route between Medford / Tufts and Heath Street. D service is being operated (on the northern end) between Union Square and Government Center, utilizing the Brattle Loop and platform. Service was being provided by single Type 9 cars. I am guessing that this will continue until the current track work project is finished on March 8th. If anyone is looking to ride or get pictures / videos of the loop in service, now is the time.

Bill

CSC_0109 by Bill D, on Flickr
DSC_0064 by Bill D, on Flickr

Yeah I rode it on it's second day in regular use. It's pretty cool to ride but why don't they extend the D down to Copley? There's a crossover and everything down there. Park-Copley only has the E atm and even with its increased frequencies it isn't enough to sustain the central subway ridership

Great photos guys, I love the last one!

As best I can determine, the last regularly scheduled service on the Brattle Loop was a short-lived shuttle between there and North Station that ended in 1952, which served as a replacement for the subway service lost when the surface car lines from the loop to Sullivan Square were abandoned. Does anyone know if there have been periods since then like the current one of temporary service to the loop caused by diversions elsewhere on the Green Line?

MBTAVideoClips wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 8:24 am Yeah I rode it on it's second day in regular use. It's pretty cool to ride but why don't they extend the D down to Copley? There's a crossover and everything down there. Park-Copley only has the E atm and even with its increased frequencies it isn't enough to sustain the central subway ridership

The out of service track area begins immediately after the Huntington Avenue switch at Copley. Therefore the turnback switches are inaccessible.

MBTA3247 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 6:40 pm As best I can determine, the last regularly scheduled service on the Brattle Loop was a short-lived shuttle between there and North Station that ended in 1952, which served as a replacement for the subway service lost when the surface car lines from the loop to Sullivan Square were abandoned. Does anyone know if there have been periods since then like the current one of temporary service to the loop caused by diversions elsewhere on the Green Line?

Government Center-Lechmere shuttles ran at several points afterwards. When the North Station trestles were destroyed by fires in 1984, the Fitchburg and Lowell (and very briefly the Ipswich/Rockport) used a temporary terminal about where the skate park is now located. All peak Lechmere service was operated as shuttles; this persisted for a bit even after North Station reopened in 1985.

When the old North Station elevated station was being switched to the new underground station the loop was used for a temporary shuttle.

Where would they have run a shuttle to while North Station was being relocated?

Just North Station to Government Center. I don't remember but I feel it was because they were taking down the El?