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South Station

Rapid transit station in Boston
TrainStation metro_station Q7568548
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Summary

South Station is a metro station[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of metro station entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (225 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Boston[3]
  • Country: United States[4]
  • Transport network: MBTA subway[5], Silver Line[6]
  • Instance of: underground railway station[7], bus stop[8], underground station[9]
  • Connecting line: Red Line[10]
  • Owned by: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority[11]
  • Operator: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority[12]
  • Adjacent station: Downtown Crossing station[13], Broadway station[14], Courthouse station[15], Chinatown Gate[16]
  • Commons category: South Station[17]
  • Interchange station: South Station[18]
  • Number of platform tracks: 2[19]
  • Connecting service: SL1[20], SL2[21], SL3[22], SL4[23]
  • Date of official opening: December 3, 1916[24]
  • Disabled accessibility: wheelchair accessible[25]
  • Route diagram template: Q141595660[26]
  • Date of official closure: September 30, 1938[27]
  • State of use: in use[28]

Why It Matters

South Station is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . mbta.com. mbta.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 15d ago · CroMagnonMan · 2026-09-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Operator → Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
    Connecting service → SL1, SL2, SL3 +1
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Boston
    Imported from → —
    + 24 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Route diagram template: Q141595660"
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