Today the Mattapan High-Speed Line reverses at Ashmont just south of the open-cut but covered Red Line terminating platforms requiring passengers to walk up stairs (or use elevators) to reach the high speed line with a single modern platform with a full-length canopy structure and mini-high platform (the one here is the only one on the line that is concrete) along its single reversing loop south of all the bus loops, on a bit of a viaduct structure to pass over the leads into the red line's train yard. The wall of the platform is a strange opaque but allowing light in wall. Passengers are excepted to pay again or tap their Charlie Cards (for a free transfer) when boarding the trolleys, although many simply enter through the back door and don't, this seems to be tolorated by the operaters since most passengers are transfering.
This existing station configuration is new, until the line was closed for refurbishment (and the station extensively rebuilt) from June 24, 2006 to December 22, 2007, trains shared platforms with the respective side platforms for red line trains with inbound cars discharging their passengers on the inbound red line platform and outbound cars receiving passengers from the outbound red line platform.
All photos taken on 28 June, 2011
Passengers get off an arriving red line train
One of the many staircases from the outbound terminating platform to the street at Ashmont there are no fare control gates to pass through it simply leads out to doors into the bus loop
Looking towards the inbound platform from one of the exit areas from the outbound platform
A view of the elevator and stairs from one of two entrance areas to originating inbound trains
Ashmont is a major bus transferpoint with its bus loops
The station entrance from Peabody Square
The new plaza down from Peabody Square
A statue in the new plaza
A corner alongside the bus loop of the subway platforms full enclosure
The glass roof has large eves to shelter waiting bus passengers
The southern fare control area from the Mattapan Line
A subway station entrance and the tracks of the Mattanpan Line's reversing loop beyond its single platform
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Last Updated: 1 July, 2011
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