Wellington

What's black and white and gross all over? One man's penis behind a newspaper on the Orange Line, police say

By adamg - 8/6/19 - 2:22 pm

Transit Police report arresting a Haverhill man they say would board a nearly empty Orange Line car, sit next to a woman and then expose and fondle himself while using a newspaper to hide what he was doing from the rest of the passengers. Read more.

Orange Line commute getting long due to a Wellington swan song

By adamg - 5/24/19 - 9:25 am

NealG reports:

That’s a new one, Orange Line motorwoman on train at Back Bay: “attention passengers, this train will be standing by due to a distraught swan in the right of way near Wellington Station."

They're so cute when they're little

By adamg - 1/8/19 - 4:21 pm

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Lori Magno snapped a photo of a couple of baby-faced new Orange Line cars resting with some of their older, wearier counterparts at Wellington this morning.

New cars on the lot

By adamg - 8/30/18 - 8:56 am

New Orange Line car being unloaded at Wellington yard

The T's Joe Pesaturo shows us a new Orange Line car being placed on local tracks - at the Wellington yard - for the first time.

Miniature Bumblebee, meanwhile, spotted two of the new cars being delivered at Wellington this morning: Read more.

New Orange Line cars are now arriving

By adamg - 8/29/18 - 3:33 pm

Miniature Bumblebee spotted a fresh Orange Line car arriving on a flatbed at the Wellington yard this morning, presumably from the new CRRC assembly plant in Springfield.

The two initial test cars, shipped direct from China, have become a familiar sight on the normally unused third Orange Line track north of Boston. The MBTA says it hopes to begin putting the new cars into passenger service starting at year's end.

Orange Line platforms getting cloggy; riders getting wet and soggy

By adamg - 4/25/18 - 9:12 am

Signal problems at Wellington are jamming up Orange Line platforms as trains slow to a crawl. David Christopher reports he's at Wellington, where he watched helplessly as two completely full trains pulled in and then left, with no room for anybody to get on.

Orange Line riders have no choice but to relax: A train near Wellington is dead on the tracks

By adamg - 3/27/18 - 9:54 am

The MBTA reports the Orange Line is running extra slow because of a train with mechanical issues near Wellington.

Shiny new Orange Line cars spotted in the wilds of Wellington

By adamg - 2/9/18 - 10:25 am

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Roving Uhub photographer Ben Themo spotted a pair of the brand-spanking-new Orange Line cars just chilling on some tracks next to the Orange Line shops at Wellington today. They'll eventually be put through their paces in months and months of testing on the revamped third set of tracks north of Boston before being placed into actual service for long suffering Orange Line riders.

An even shinier, closer view: Read more.

Riders go ballistic when a train dies near the Mystic

By adamg - 12/22/17 - 8:42 am

An Orange Line train breathed its last at Wellington and even though workers got it out of sight, it's still causing "moderate" delays, the MBTA reports.

First of the new Orange Line cars arrive in South Boston

By adamg - 12/15/17 - 12:28 pm

Orange Line car offloaded in South Boston's Conley Terminal

Photo by MBTA.

The MBTA reports the first four new Orange Line cars from Chinese manufacturer CRRC arrived in South Boston this morning, from where they will be transported to the Orange Line maintenance facility in Wellington for a year of testing and shakedown runs before they are put in service. Read more.

Oh, thats swellington: Dead train at Wellington

By adamg - 11/25/17 - 11:01 pm

The MBTA reports "moderate" delays on the Orange Line even after getting a deceased train off the tracks.

It's like the Orange Line's running through rubble, due to new Wellington signal trouble

By adamg - 7/13/17 - 4:20 pm

"Moderate" delays on the Orange Line, the MBTA says.

T tells Orange Line riders: Don't be a whiner, those switch delays are minor

By adamg - 4/28/16 - 7:15 am

Still, trains into town from the north are being slowed by switch issues at Wellington.

Orange Line riders have a Wellington beef: A dead train there is causing them grief

By adamg - 4/27/16 - 5:57 pm

The T is reporting "moderate" delays on the Orange Line due to a train that started pining for the fjords at Wellington.

Inbound Orange Line stopped at Wellington on report of suspicious men

By adamg - 2/9/16 - 8:51 am

Transit Police held an inbound train at Wellington after somebody at Oak Grove reported four well dressed "Middle Eastern" men with backpacks split up into two groups and got on separate cars there. Service was stopped for about 15 minutes.

Christian reports a police dog went through the train before it resumed service around 8:50 a.m.

New revenue idea for the T: In-train showers

By adamg - 9/30/15 - 1:34 pm

Orange Line at Wellington

Ethan Long shows us the scene on an Orange Line train at Wellington around 12:30 p.m.

When you could take a mini-train to the train at Wellington

By adamg - 9/3/15 - 8:58 pm

Otis Horizontal Elevator

A video of the old "horizontal elevator" that used to run at Wellington until the developer of the apartment/retail complex near the station finally gave up on paying to constantly repair the thing.

Via Boston Reddit, which has more on the people mover's history.

Nighttime Oak Grove commuters will need to be more resilient for the next month or so

By adamg - 6/22/15 - 8:52 am

We've had quite enough of this, thank you very much. Feb. photo by Rich.

Starting tonight, the T will be shutting down the Orange Line between Wellington and Oak Grove starting at 8:45 p.m. at night so workers can get the tracks ready for winter - except for Friday and Saturday nights, when service will run as usual.

You may recall that particular stretch of Orange Line proved particularly troublesome in the winter of our discontent. Workers will be installing heaters along the third rail and at switches to prevent the tracks from turning into a glacier again, in a $12.7 million project, MassDOT reports.

Where there's a will, there's a way

By adamg - 2/20/15 - 11:01 am

Snow tunnel at Wellington station on the Orange Line.

Boston Bike Party show us the tunnel a determined group of bicyclists with shovels dug out of a snow mound at the Wellington T stop - where the T dumped snow right on a bike path.

Well, the C Line now goes all the way to Cleveland Circle and the Orange Line to Wellington

By adamg - 2/18/15 - 8:51 am

Aggro Maverick: No train for 20 minutes. Photo by Tim Lawrence.

But the B Line? Amanda McNeil reports:

Direct quote from 57 driver "All the buses leaving Watertown are full. Y'all better just start walking"

An Orange Line tried withered on the vine at Tufts.

Three inbound Red Line trains passed through Central after 8:30 a.m. and nobody could get on any of them.

Wellington

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