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	Orange Line
								Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Oak Grove
								Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Malden Center
								Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Wellington
								Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Sullivan Square
								Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Community College
								Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	North Station
								Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Haymarket
								Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	State
								Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Downtown Crossing
								Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Chinatown
								Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	NE Medical Center
								Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Back Bay
								Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Mass Ave
								Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Ruggles
								Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Roxbury Crossing
								Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Jackson Sq
								Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Stony Brook
								Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Green Street
								Image:Handicap reverse 12px.svg	Forest Hills
	Old Main Line Elevated stations Everett - Sullivan Square Thompson Square City Square - North Station Tunnel (Haymarket to Chinatown) Dover - Northampton - Dudley Egleston - Green - Forest Hills

Boston Back Bay Station
Address	145 Dartmouth Street Boston, Massachusetts
Routes	Acela Express - Lake Shore Limited - Regional
Other service	MBTA Orange Line, bus routes and Commuter Rail
Code	BBY
Owned by	MBTA

Back Bay Station, located at 145 Dartmouth Street, between Stuart Street and Columbus Avenue, in Back Bay, Boston, is an important transportation center. Its facilities include:

• a station stop on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor train service, including Acela Express high-speed trains. There is also a daily Amtrak overnight train (Lake Shore Limited) to Chicago.
• a stop on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Attleboro/Providence and Framingham/Worcester, Needham and Franklin commuter rail lines.
• a station stop on the Boston subway's Orange Line.
• local bus service.
• staffed ticket windows.
• a food court and waiting area.

Back Bay Station opened May, 1987 as part of the Orange Line's Southwest Corridor project and was dedicated by Governor Michael Dukakis.

Note: Amtrak's trains to Maine do not stop at Back Bay or South Station. They terminate at North Station, which is also on the Orange Line. Travelers who wish to make a connection by subway with North Station are best off exiting at Back Bay and taking the Orange Line.

[edit] Attractions

• Several major hotels
• A shopping mall extending through many buildings in the area
• The Prudential Center
• The Hynes Auditorium Convention Center
• The John Hancock Tower
• Copley Square and Trinity Church
• The linear park that extends from Back Bay Station to Massachusetts Avenue atop the Southwest corridor project/Northeast Corridor

[edit] Accessibility

• Back Bay Station is wheelchair accessible.
• Other Amtrak stations on the Northeast Corridor are generally accessible.
• Back Bay Station has a full length high level platform for Amtrak Northeast Corridor and MBTA Attleboro/Providence trains but only a short high level platform for MBTA Framingham/Worcester and Amtrak Chicago trains (which operate on different tracks from the Northeast Corridor service).
• Some MBTA commuter rail stations have no wheelchair access and many of those that do have short high level platforms that only serve one or two cars.
• See MBTA accessibility.

Preceding station	MBTA Commuter Rail			Following station
Yawkey		Framingham/Worcester Line		South Station
Ruggles		Needham Line		South Station
Ruggles		Franklin Line		South Station
Ruggles		Providence/Stoughton Line		South Station

Preceding station	Amtrak Lines			Following station
Route 128		Acela Express (Boston-Washington D.C.)		South Station
Framingham		Lake Shore Limited (Chicago-Boston)		South Station
Route 128		Regional (Boston-Newport News)		South Station