The railway brought granite stones from a rock quarry in Quincy, Massachusetts, so that the Bunker Hill Monument could be erected in Boston.

The chapter 9 account of the Cheynes ' journey from San Diego to Boston is a classic of railway literature.

Boston remained something of a local railway hub well into the twentieth century, moving the produce of the district and the trade of the dock, plus the excursion trade to Skegness and similar places.

Hunnewell was named for Boston financier and railway owner H. H. Hunnewell.

Ice Collected from the Congamond lakes, was once stored in massive ice houses in blocks and delivered via railway for food storage from New York City to Boston before electric refrigerators were available for public purchase.

A railway from Boston to Spalding opened in 1848, while the line from Spalding opened to Bourne in 1866 and on to Sleaford in 1872.

The passing of a later act for the railway also saw cannon celebrations but, on this occasion, a fitter at Boston Lodge, who was assisting with firing, lost the fingers of one hand in an accident.

Between Porthmadog Harbour station and Boston Lodge, the railway runs on the Cob, the dyke of the Traeth Mawr " polder ".

On the Boston side of the bridge, the line briefly transformed into an elevated railway, rising over Charles Circle and connecting to another tunnel dug through Beacon Hill to Park Street.

The Northeast Corridor ( commonly abbreviated as the NEC ) is a fully electrified railway line owned primarily by Amtrak serving the Northeast megalopolis of the United States from Boston in the north, via New York to Washington, D. C. in the south, with branches serving other cities.

By 1850, however, promoters of this project learned of plans by Boston interests to build a railway from Lake Champlain, to Ogdensburg, opposite Prescott, on the route of the projected Bytown & Prescott Railway.

A South Holland council nature reserve is situated on part of the old Boston railway line at Vernatts Drain.

The Macmillan Way heads through the town, finishing at Boston and there is also Torpel Way to Peterborough, which follows the railway line, entering Peterborough at Bretton.

The Pratt truss was patented in 1844 by two Boston railway engineers, Caleb Pratt and his son Thomas Willis Pratt.

Ownership of the railway was transferred from the private Boston Elevated Railway to the public Metropolitan Transit Authority ( MTA ) in 1947, reconstituted as the modern Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority in 1964.

In 1833, he was one of the founders of the Boston & Portland railway, which later changed its name to the Boston & Maine Railroad, and served as its director from 1834 to 1841.

E. R. Boston, was notable as a traction engine and light railway enthusiast and engineer who constructed the now-dismantled Cadeby Light Railway.

Tattershall railway station was a station on the line between Boston and Lincoln until closure.

The railway quickly mobilized aid, sending a dozen relief trains with fire and medical help from towns in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick on the day of the disaster followed two days later by help from the other parts of Canada and the United States, most notably Boston.

Permission was granted in 1880 for a nearly long railway from Mill Hill Park station to Hounslow Barracks, with stations at South Ealing, Boston Road and Spring Grove and agreement reached for the District to work the line.

* March 23 or 26-Cambridge Railroad street railway opens in Boston ( United States ), giving the city the world's oldest continuously working streetcar system.

The railway line between Boston and Skegness crosses to the north bank, and then follows the course of the river to below Wainfleet All Saints.

Croft Lane bridge is next, after which the A52 and the Boston to Skegness railway cross, and the relief channel rejoins Wainfleet Haven.

In 1946, Herald-Traveler Corporation acquired Boston radio station WHDH.

Just over the Longfellow Bridge from Boston, at the eastern end of the MIT campus, it is served by the Kendall / MIT station on the MBTA Red Line subway.

The Church then purchased a Boston cable TV station for elaborate in-house programming production.

There was a wide spectrum of disco-format radio stations during the late 1970s, but virtually all of them died out during the disco backlash ; WXKS in Boston is one of the few notable survivors, now a Clear Channel Communications-owned top-40 station of considerable influence.

Server-side scripting was first used in early 1995 by Fred DuFresne while developing the first web site for Boston, MA television station WCVB.

* WEEI radio station in Boston, established by the Edison Electric Illuminating Company ( hence the call letters )

* December 7 – The television station W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts, broadcasts video and audio from the radio orchestra program The Fox Trappers.

A seventh station, WCVB-TV in Boston, was part of the original transaction but was spun off in a separate, concurrent deal to the Hearst Corporation as part of a right of first refusal related to that station's 1982 sale to Metromedia.

* Arlington ( MBTA station ), Boston, Massachusetts

Based in the neighboring town of Newton, Boston is served with a good amount of free improvisation music from Boston College's non-commercial radio station 90. 3 FM WZBC, as part of its vast number of experimental programs.

* Butler ( MBTA station ), Boston, Massachusetts

Some large cities where TV development was slow, like Pittsburgh and St. Louis, had only one station on the air for a prolonged period, many more of the largest cities such as Boston only had two, and many sizable cities including Denver and Portland, Oregon had no television service at all until the second half of 1952 after the freeze ended.

If a U. S .- based team ( located in either Boston, Chicago, Detroit or New York City ) was playing in Toronto on a particular Saturday night, thousands of fans in the U. S. city whose local team faced the Leafs would often listen to the CBC broadcast via skywave reception, with the game often drawing far more listeners during the HNIC broadcast period than any local station.

* Fairmount ( MBTA station ) in Boston, Massachusetts

The university is west of Boston and is accessible through Brandeis / Roberts station on the Fitchburg Commuter Rail Line, a free shuttle that services Boston and Cambridge ( Harvard Square ) Thursday through Sunday, the nearby Riverside subway station ( above ground ) on the Green Line, and the 553 MBTA Bus.

The series began transmission in the UK in November 2007, and on the BBC's U. S. producing partner station WGBH ( PBS Boston ) in spring 2008.

Hampton is served by several Amtrak trains a day, with direct service from a station in nearby Newport News ( on Warwick Boulevard just west of Mercury Boulevard ) through Williamsburg and Richmond to points along the Northeast Corridor from Washington DC through Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City all the way to Boston.

* 1884 Start of operations of Boston Manor Underground station ( then known as Boston Road ).

* Boston Manor tube station ( Piccadilly line )