BOSTON — Commuter rail service will be replaced on weeknights and on two weekends from Monday, May 8, through Thursday, June 1, on a segment of three Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority lines, the MBTA and contract operator Keolis Commuter Services have announced.
Shuttle buses will operate between South Station and Braintree on the Kingston, Middleborough, and Greenbush lines after 7:30 p.m. on weeknights and all day on the weekends of May 13-14 and May 20-21. The bus substitutions are to accommodate previously announced work on the rapid transit Red Line. That line is adjacent to the commuter rail tracks for most of the route between South Station and Braintree.
The last weekday train departing South Station will be Middleborough train 025, a 7:05 p.m. departure. The last weekday inbound train will be Middleborough train 022, which departs Braintree at 5:13 p.m. and arrives at South Station at 5:39 p.m. More information is available here.
Do trains coming off the Greenbush line have to use the south side of the wye near Braintree?
Is there a track shift of both involved?
Could be that there will be work on the long viaduct where Red Line crosses over Commuter Rail on a long skew. This is at Savin Hill, Dorchester.
That’s a new one – shut down to parallel railroads because one f them is being worked on.