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30 The Boston Sunday Globe April 21. 1985 North Station rail service back after 15 months lines carry some 12.UUO passengers a day on more than 100 different trains. The Gardner-Fitchburg line comes in through Concord. Lincoln. Waltham.

Belmont and Cambridge. The Lowell line services Wilmington. Winchester and Med-ford. The Haverhill line carries riders through Lawrence. Reading, Wakefield and Melrose.

And the Eastern Line normally services the North Shore to Rock- operated by the Boston Maine Railroad under contract to the MBTA. into and out of North Station also would be in effect today. To further mark the opening of North Station, free rides were also in order on southern routes of Commuter Rail into South Station yesterday. "But we'll be charging there South Station Sunday and obviously fares here North Station will go into effect Monday morning," he said. The northern commuter rail NORTH STATION Continued from Page 29 Walter Bushey was giving away flowers.

He's been selling flowers in the same spot for four years and the last 15 months have been hard. "We still sold flowers," he said. "But now we know business is going to be a lot better. "But today we're not selling. It's free today." James F.

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Eugene Sullivan, chief of the MBTA's Commuter Rail Division, said yesterday that he expects that bridge to be repaired by "late fall" and. at that point, to have the entire system back to normal. O'Leary. Secretary of Transportation Frederick P. Salvucci and MBTA Board of Directors member James Smith of Lynn all thanked the northern riders "for their patience and understanding" during the 15 months of reconstruction which led to yesterday's reopening, O'Leary also thanked his construction people, the Federal Urban Mass Transportation Administration, and the Contractor, the Kiewit Eastern for their efforts.

"The most optimistic forecast we could come up with after the fire was that it would take two years to complete this job." he said. "We did it in 15 months." Total cost of the reconstruction was almost $12 million, with some 75 percent of it coming from federal funds, he said. The work included the reconstruction of the trestle, fireproof pilings, the sandblasting of "the drawbridges, the construction, of new platforms and canopies, better lighting and public address facilities, improvements in the signal system, and the general upgrading and cleaning of the termi; nal itself. Business picks up at the Garden BOSTON GARDEN Continued from Page 29 Walsh said Boston Police have kept the heat on the scalpers over the past few years. The scalpers, in separate interviews, insisted they perform a service and complained that police should be fighting more serious crime.

"We just try to do our job," said Walsh, "because we're concerned for the average person who comes down to try to buy a ticket" for the listed price. After the game began at 3:30 and the scalpers left, train passengers returning from free rides north of the city continued to stream through the station. Robert K. Thorp, a retired airline manager from Wellesley, got off the train with his grandson. The two had been to Salem for sightseeing, chowder and ice cream.

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