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{{Short description|Boston MBTA former subway station}}
{{Infobox station
| name=Everett
| style=MBTA |style2=Orange
| image=Everett (Main Line Elevated) station, 1918.jpg
| image_caption=Everett station in 1918, shortly before opening
| address=Broadway at Beacham Street,<br>[[Everett, Massachusetts]]
| coordinates={{coord|42|23|52.39|N|71|3|52.85|W|type:railwaystation_region:US-MA|display=inline,title}}
| line=[[Charlestown Elevated]]
| other=
| platform=2
| tracks=2
| parking=
| bicycle=
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| opened=March 15, 1919<ref name="netransit">{{NETransit}}</ref>
| closed=April 4, 1975<ref name=netransit />
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| owned=[[Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority]]
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| services= {{Adjacent stations|system=MBTA|line=Orange|left=Sullivan Square}}
| mapframe           = yes
| mapframe-custom    = {{Infobox mapframe |shape=none |line=none |marker=rail-metro |marker-color=#888 |zoom=15 }}
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'''Everett''' was a rapid transit station in [[Everett, Massachusetts]]. It served the [[MBTA]]'s [[Orange Line (MBTA)|Orange Line]]. It opened in 1919 as an extension of the [[Charlestown Elevated]], and served as its northern terminus until the Elevated was closed and demolished in 1975, when it was replaced by the [[Haymarket North Extension]].<ref name=rodetheel>{{cite book|last1=Cheney|first1=Frank|last2=Sammarco|first2=Anthony Mitchell|date=2000|title=When Boston Rode the EL|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=snRWxEvlJqYC|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-0-7385-0462-9|access-date=May 26, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://bostontoat.blogspot.com/2011/04/history-of-el.html|title=YAY History: The "El"|last=Lampariello|first=Dan|date=April 30, 2011| website=Boston to a T|access-date=May 26, 2015}}</ref>
==Construction and history==
[[File:Inbound platform at Everett station, Charlestown Elevated, 1931.jpg|thumb|left|Streetcar platforms next to the inbound platform (not visible, at left) at Everett in 1931]]
In the 1910s and 1920s, the [[Boston Elevated Railway]] (BERy) had plans to extend the Charlestown Elevated to [[Malden, Massachusetts|Malden]] via a new Main Street Elevated, but local opposition made that not happen. The southern portion of this extension, including a drawbridge over the [[Mystic River]], was built in the late 1910s. Everett station was opened in an isolated industrial area just north of the river crossing on March 15, 1919.<ref name=netransit />
Intended to be temporary and to be used only until full service to Malden was implemented, it was constructed of wood like a house rather than a permanent transit station. The light-duty construction style of this station was unique on the Elevated.<ref name=rodetheel /> Due to opposition from Malden residents who preferred a tunnel due to the noise and vibration of the planned elevated line, the Malden extension was not built and Everett remained the terminus.<ref name=rodetheel /> Although Everett thus became a semi-permanent station, it was never rebuilt from its "clapboard house" configuration, and began to look increasingly shabby as the years went by, acquiring a reputation to that effect among riders of the Elevated.
On March 30, 1963, the remaining trackless trolley lines feeding into Everett were replaced with diesel buses. This allowed the somewhat isolated station to be closed on nights and Sundays to improve passenger security and comfort, during which times the buses were simply extended to Sullivan Square.<ref name=netransit />
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, plans to reroute the Orange Line were implemented, culminating in the building of the [[Haymarket North Extension]]. The Haymarket North Extension rerouted the Orange Line into a new tunnel under the Charles River and from there followed the [[Haverhill Line]] north through Malden, somewhat to the west of the Charlestown Elevated's then-existing and previously-planned route. The Charlestown Elevated was closed on April 4, 1975, and the first section of the Haymarket North Extension was opened three days later.<ref name="netransit" /> Since then, all transit service to the city of Everett has consisted of buses terminating at [[Sullivan Square station|Sullivan Square]], [[Wellington station (MBTA)|Wellington]], [[Malden Center station|Malden Center]], or [[Wood Island station|Wood Island]] stations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mbta.com/uploadedFiles/Schedules_and_Maps/System_Map/MBTA-system_map-5.pdf|title=Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority System Map 5|date=2014|format=PDF|publisher=[[Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority]]|accessdate=May 28, 2015|archive-date=May 28, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150528200653/http://www.mbta.com/uploadedFiles/Schedules_and_Maps/System_Map/MBTA-system_map-5.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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==References==
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==External links==
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*[http://photos.cityrails.net/showpic/?photo=200207270027558342.jpg&order=byposter&page=1&key=Ronkarr An image of the station on its last day of operation]
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[[Category:Buildings and structures in Everett, Massachusetts]]
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