Modernization
In 1931, a modernization program costing $2.5 million was undertaken, the old train shed removed and butterfly sheds intalled, and many innovations added, the Globe reported. Some 466 scheduled and many unscheduled trains were in operation at that time.
Pictured: the station in 1931.
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- Boston Terminal Company
- Construction begins
- South Station complete
- Train service begins
- Dewey Square
- Elevated station
- Third rail system
- New announcing system
- Post Office
- World War I
- Dispatchers
- Liberty Bell
- Modernization
- Christmas
- Amenities
- Making history
- More changes
- Chapel
- More routes
- Changing hands
- Bankruptcy
- Boston Redevelopment Authority
- Amtrak
- National landmark
- Clock
- Bus terminal
- MBTA takes over
- Running smoothly
- Renovations complete
- Acela train
- Silver and Red lines
- New departure board
- Rose Kennedy Greenway
- Future expansion
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