Ashmont is a multimodal MBTA transfer station located at Peabody Square in Dorchester, Massachusetts. It is the southern terminus of the Dorchester Branch of the rapid transit Red Line, the northern terminus of the light rail Ashmont–Mattapan High Speed Line, and an important MBTA Bus terminal.Ashmont station is fully handicapped accessible for all modes.HistoryThe first Ashmont Station was a simple building along the original Shawmut Branch of the Old Colony Railroad, which opened in 1872. That was when steam locomotives powered the passenger trains that continued into Boston with a stop at Fields Corner. The current intermediate Shawmut Station was not created as a train stop until the Shawmut Branch of the steam railroad (by then under the New Haven Railroad) was adapted to electrified subway service in the late 1920s and placed underground as it approached Ashmont Station.When first built in 1928, no buses served the station; all lines ran streetcars. Specifically, the following Boston Elevated Railway streetcar lines operated to Ashmont (using post-1942 numbers), unloading on the east side and loading on the two west tracks on the west side: Ruggles via Talbot Avenue Ruggles via Washington Street, Dorchester Mattapan Station via River St.Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway cars to Brockton also used the station.
