Greenbush Line

Greenbush Line
An outbound train at North Scituate station in April 2013
Overview
Status	Operating
Owner	MBTA
Locale	Southeastern Massachusetts
Termini	Boston South Station Greenbush
Stations	10
Service
Type	Commuter rail line
System	Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
Train number(s)	1054–1097 (weekdays) 6056–6097 (weekends)
Operator(s)	Keolis North America
Daily ridership	2,691 (October 2022)[1]
History
Opened	October 31, 2007[2]
Closed	June 30, 1959 (previous NYNH&H service)
Technical
Line length	27.6 miles (44.4 km)[3][4]
Character	Surface level with one tunnel
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
Route map Show interactive map Legend to Alewife 0 mi South Station lines via Back Bay Cabot Yard Broadway  Fairmount  Southampton Street Yard Andrew Dorchester Tunnel 2.3 mi 3.7 km JFK/UMass Savin Hill to Ashmont North Quincy Wollaston 7.9 mi 12.7 km Quincy Center Quincy Adams  Red  to Braintree  Fall River/New Bedford   Kingston  Fore River Railroad 11.8 mi 19 km Weymouth Landing/ East Braintree 14.6 mi 23.5 km East Weymouth 16.2 mi 26.1 km West Hingham 18.3 mi 29.5 km Nantasket Junction 19.9 mi 32 km Cohasset 23.3 mi 37.5 km North Scituate 27.6 mi 44.4 km Greenbush Yard │Greenbush South Shore RR to Plymouth This diagram: view talk edit Show route diagram map

The Greenbush Line is a branch of the MBTA Commuter Rail system which serves the South Shore region of Massachusetts. The 27.6-mile (44.4 km) line runs from downtown Boston, Massachusetts through the cities and towns of Quincy, Braintree, Weymouth, Hingham, Cohasset, and Scituate to the Greenbush neighborhood in southern Scituate. There are ten stations along the line. From South Station to northern Braintree, Greenbush Line service shares the Old Colony Main Line with the Fall River/New Bedford Line and Kingston Line. From Braintree to Greenbush, trains utilize the Greenbush Branch, the former South Shore Railroad line that was later incorporated into the Old Colony Railroad.

Modern passenger service on the Greenbush Line began on October 31, 2007.^[2] This service restoration, put in place as environmental mitigation for the Big Dig project, was the first passenger service on the line since 1959.