And if you've ever been through either one, you can really fuckin' tell.

Hopefully they've been updated in the 20 years since I used to haunt those stations, but my god they were decrepit back then.

Boylston st, Boston

Say that 10 times fast

That 10 times fast

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You can come and see the original infrastructure!

Park Street is dope, like running across the tracks

As a tourist it seemed pretty good.. less crowded than London, a bit more run down than Copenhagen.

Boylston and Park specifically, or just in general? Boston's MTA does a good job of adding a new coat of paint to make things look nice on the surface, but, at least 20 years ago, it took almost no effort to find the rotting bits and whatnot.

Yeah. Now they’re over run with ghouls

I've been there... but was speaking generally, maybe Rose tinted glasses since they've been talking about building a subway in my hometown for about 20 years and I doubt they'll ever break ground!

Only 34 years after the Metropolitan Railway opened its first stations at Paddington (Bishop's Road), Edgware Road, Baker Street, Portland Road, Gower Street, King's Cross, and Farringdon Street, and only seven years after the City and South London Railway opened with electric locomotion due to the nature of its route under the Thames disallowing the use of steam.

This always makes me smile. People who are not from Boston don’t realize that these two stations are about a 30 second walk apart

My town was on the orange line so I generally tried to stay on that line when going back and forth so I could spend as little time in the stations as possible.

Don’t know why you were down voted. Fascinating

I mean the federal government literally shut down a bunch of the T for a month it’s in such bad shape

I think it's amazing that the technology spread to the US so fast, especially in those days.

The UK actually suffers for having been the pioneer in the railways, as we're hamstrung by having much of that ancient infrastructure still in existence. We didn't, for example, undergo a five year intensive remodelling program in the 1940s, as Europe did.

Many of those original 19th century tunnels on the London Underground are still in use today. The rolling stock, the signalling systems, the rails, the platform detailing will be newer, but the tunnels themselves are original.

I’m going to Boston tomorrow, and am staying right near the Boylston station, I shall check it out!

Good luck!

Edit: Oh, and go to Faneuil Hall to get some of the clam chowder they sell there. That stuff is delicious and worth the trip.

I certainly would if I liked clam chowder! 😜