BOSTON — The Massachusetts Senate has passed a budget amendment to fund a study of electrification of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s Fairmount commuter rail line, the Bay State Banner reports.
Electrification is one of the alternatives proposed by the MBTA in its Rail Vision program to evaluate the future of its commuter rail system. Electrification would allow trains to run as frequently as every 15 minutes. The Fairmount line is considered one particularly suited to electrification because six of its eight stations have high-level platforms and service between its closely spaced stations would benefit from the faster acceleration of electrified equipment.
