Photo: Transit Department photographs, Collection 8300.002, City of Boston Archives, Boston
BOSTON (WBZNewsRadio) - Turning 126 years old today, the Tremont Street subway station looks pretty good for it's age. Built as the first subway system in the United States, the original underground route was just five-miles between the Public Garden and Haymarket Square.
It was September 1st, 1897 when the first train car pulled away from the station, full of excited Bostonian passengers. Riders were taken between just the Public Garden and Park Street, but that didn't quell their excitement. The rest of the system opened to the public the following year, in 1898.
During it's construction and opening, the Boston Transit Commission took photographs of the work, the station, and a number of different sites across the City in relation to the then-new underground railway.
In 1964, Tremont Street Station was designated as a Registered National Historic Landmark and remains the third oldest subway system in the world to exclusively use electric traction, behind the City and South London Railway built in 1890 and Budapest's Metro Line 1 in 1896.
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