- Eliot (MBTA station)
Infobox Station
name=Eliot
type=MBTA light rail
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address=Route 9 near corner of Woodward Street
Newton, MA
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platform=2side platform s
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tracks=2 tracks
parking=Yes
bicycle=Yes
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opened=July 4, 1959
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owned=Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
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map_locator=Eliot is a surface-level
rapid transit station located inNewton, Massachusetts on theGreen Line "D" Branch of the MBTA. Like the other surface level stations on the "D" Branch, it opened onJuly 4 ,1959 . Transit time from Eliot to Park Street is 37 minutes.Originally, the Waban stop was to have been named Eliot, and the Eliot stop was to have been named Waban, but the two names were switched accidentally when the first train schedules were printed, and it was easier to change the names of the stations than to print new schedules.Fact|date=May 2008
External links
* [http://www.mbta.com/schedules_and_maps/subway/lines/stations/?stopId=15602&lat=42.318744&lng=-71.217023 Eliot Station] (MBTA.com)
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