page_title: Washington Street Elevated
section_title: Stations
hierarchical_section_title: Washington Street Elevated / Stations
caption_attribution_description: English: A northbound Main Line train with a smoking (S) car on front leaves Forest Hills elevated station in 1910
context_page_description: The Washington Street Elevated was an elevated segment of Boston's Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority subway system, comprising the southern stretch of the Orange Line. It ran from Chinatown through the South End and Roxbury, ending in Forest Hills in Jamaica Plain, Boston.
context_section_description: The Washington Street Elevated consisted of six stations, the most complex and major of which were at Dudley Square and Forest Hills.  Most of the original stations were designed by architect Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, Jr., and originally featured much in the way of ornamentation and architectural prowess.  By the time the "El" closed, however, much of this detail had been lost to decades of decay, neglect, and cost-cutting.  Forest Hills Station was designed by Edmund March Wheelwright and was quite different from the other stations along the line, featuring a square stone exterior rather than sloping rooflines.
  Following the closure of the elevated, most of the stations were scrapped; however, the Northampton station headhouse was moved to the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, Maine in 1988, where it remains today, and parts of Dudley station were saved and incorporated into the current bus station.
  The stations themselves were:
caption: Forest Hills station in 1910
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