Possibly Eggleston, not Forest Hills. Still a qustion.
Votes of emailers appear Forest Hills, but hope to get a definitive answer. Mean-while, south of Revere:
A bit of an improvement of the previous photo, and another Type 5 in the same general area in Revere. The first photo's streetcar has Revere Beach, Express (to) Ocean Heights, thec second Revere Beach via Ocean Hights.
South of Revere, north of Oriernt Hei8ghts, thisc trestle carried Bay State Electric Revere Beach - Orient Heights streetcars, then Eastern Massachusetts streetcars extended without stops over Boston Elevated tracks to the East Boston (now Blue Line) Rapid Transit Maverick terminal. In 1936 the Boston Elevated took over, trolley buses on a nearby road in 1952, and they are gone. The narrow-gauge Boston Revere Beach and Lynn had a parallel bridge just east of this, and for some 40 years the Blue Line has a hadf replacement bridge there:
As I first poxsted, indeed at Forest Hills. Richard Allman informs us that the photos are south of the station, with Hyde Park Avenue the tracks on the left.
In the Forest Hills Station, street-level. outbound (south) departire platform, Johm Stern at left.
Mattapan Station, again,
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