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The IRT 42nd Street Shuttle runs under 42nd Street between Broadway / Seventh Avenue ( Times Square ) and Park Avenue ( Grand Central ); the IRT Flushing Line begins at 41st Street / Seventh Avenue, runs between 41st and 42nd from Sixth Avenue to Park Avenue, curves onto 42nd Street between Park and Lexington Avenues, and continues under the East River to Queens.
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The New York City Subway employs these at 14th Street – Union Square on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line and at Times Square on the 42nd Street Shuttle, and formerly at the South Ferry outer loop station on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line.
It served as part of the IRT's main line until August 1, 1918, when the Dual Contracts ' " H system " was put into service, with through trains over the IRT Lexington Avenue Line and IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line, and only shuttle trains under 42nd Street.
42nd Street Shuttle train of three R62A ( New York City Subway car ) | R62A s at Grand Central ( IRT 42nd Street Shuttle ) | Grand Central
On October 27, 1904, local and express service opened on the original subway in Manhattan, following the route of the present IRT Lexington Avenue Line from City Hall to Grand Central – 42nd Street.
From there, the service traveled west on 42nd Street on the route of the present 42nd Street Shuttle, and then north on the present IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line to 145th Street.
Thus, Broad Street and Fulton Street are two of the five stations that are not served full-time ( the others being the two stations of the IRT 42nd Street Shuttle, and the seasonal Aqueduct Racetrack station on the IND Rockaway Line ).
As a general rule, trains on A Division lines inherited from the IRT ( designated with numbers, plus the 42nd Street Shuttle ) are shorter and narrower than those that operate on B Division lines inherited from BMT / IND ( designated with letters ).
# REDIRECT Grand Central – 42nd Street ( New York City Subway )# IRT Lexington Avenue Line platforms
The complex provides free transfers between the IRT 42nd Street Shuttle, the BMT Broadway Line, the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line and the IRT Flushing Line, with a long transfer to the IND Eighth Avenue Line one block west at 42nd Street – Port Authority Bus Terminal.
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* The IRT Lexington Avenue Line runs under Broadway from Bowling Green to Fulton Street ( trains ).
* The IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line runs under and over Broadway from Times Square to 168th Street ( trains ), and from 218th Street to its terminal in the Bronx at Van Cortlandt Park – 242nd Street ( train ).
The Cortlandt Street ( IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line ) | Cortlandt Street IRT station, which was directly below the World Trade Center, after the September 11 attacks
The IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line, which ran below the World Trade Center between Chambers Street and Rector Street was the most crippled.
The New York City Subway's 34th Street – Penn Station ( IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line ) ( trains ) and 34th Street – Penn Station ( IND Eighth Avenue Line ) ( trains ) stations are next to the terminal.
Depiction of the wall of New Amsterdam on a tile in Wall Street ( IRT Lexington Avenue Line ) subway station
* Wall Street ( IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line ) at William Street ( trains )
* Wall Street ( IRT Lexington Avenue Line ) at Broadway ( trains )
The Bleecker Street ( IRT Lexington Avenue Line ) has station entrances on the north side of Houston Street, due to its connection with the Broadway-Lafayette Street station as part of a larger station complex.
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The IRT platforms have been connected to each other as a transfer station as the lines opened: first between the 42nd Street Shuttle and the Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line in 1918, then the transfer was incorporated with the Flushing Line in 1927.
Category: IRT 42nd Street Shuttle stations
For the transfer complex between the Franklin Avenue Shuttle and the IRT Eastern Parkway Line, see Franklin Avenue – Botanic Garden ( New York City Subway ).
) It serves trains on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line, the IRT Flushing Line and the 42nd Street Shuttle, making it an all-IRT transfer point.
The southbound local track south of the station merges into the original downtown local track from the IRT 42nd Street Shuttle.
Category: IRT 42nd Street Shuttle stations
These closures included the entire IRT Third Avenue Line in Manhattan ( 1955 ) and the Bronx ( 1973 ), as well as the BMT Lexington Avenue Line ( 1950 ), much of the remainder of the BMT Fulton Street Line ( 1956 ), the downtown Brooklyn part of the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line ( 1969 ) and the BMT Culver Shuttle ( 1975 ), all in Brooklyn.
Stations on the IRT 42nd Street Shuttle of the New York City Subway.
** Grand Central ( IRT 42nd Street Shuttle ), serving the train
The tracks were used for motorman training and set up with a short stretch of 1950s-era automation to test the ill-fated system later used on one track of the IRT 42nd Street Shuttle.
This bus route was one of the first to have free transfers with the subway with the transfer points at the 3rd Avenue – 149th Street and Gun Hill Road White Plains Road IRT stations, and was one of three B35, which got its free transfer two years later after the Culver Shuttle ended and the B42 replaced the Rockaway Parkway Line were the others ).
# REDIRECT Grand Central – 42nd Street ( New York City Subway )# IRT 42nd Street Shuttle platforms
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From south to north, Broadway at one point or another runs over or under the IRT Lexington Avenue Line, the BMT Broadway Line, the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line, and the IND Eighth Avenue Line:
The IRT Flushing Line ( trains ) runs through the neighborhood with stops at 111th Street, 103rd Street – Corona Plaza and Junction Boulevard.
The IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line ( trains ) runs along the Broadway making stops at 59th, 66th, 72nd, 79th, 86th, 96th, 103rd, 110th, and 116th streets.
The IRT Lexington Avenue Line runs under this portion of the street.
The IRT Lexington Avenue Line ( trains ) of the New York City Subway runs under Lexington Avenue north of 42nd Street ( at Grand Central ); south of Grand Central this subway line runs under Park Avenue until Astor Place.
In Long Island City, Route 25 runs southeast beneath the elevated tracks of the IRT Flushing Line.
The IRT Lenox Avenue Line runs under the entire length of the street.
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* Concourse Line ( trains ): under the Grand Concourse from 205th Street south to 161st Street, then west under the Harlem River into Manhattan and south to the Eighth Avenue Line ( parallel to the IRT Jerome Avenue Line )
* Eighth Avenue Line ( trains ): from 207th Street, south roughly under Broadway ; under Saint Nicholas Avenue, Eighth Avenue, Greenwich Avenue, Sixth Avenue ( with a junction with the Sixth Avenue Line / Houston Street Line ), Church Street, and Fulton Street ; under the East River via the Cranberry Street Tunnel into Brooklyn, to the Fulton Street Line ( parallel to the IRT Ninth Avenue Line )
* Sixth Avenue Line ( trains ): from a split from the Eighth Avenue Line at 53rd Street, two blocks east to Sixth Avenue, then south under Sixth Avenue to a junction with the Eighth Avenue Line north of Houston Street, then east under Houston Street and south under Essex Street and Rutgers Street to the Rutgers Street Tunnel to Brooklyn-parallel to the IRT Sixth Avenue Elevated
* Queens Boulevard Line ( trains ): from the 53rd Street Tunnel from Queens, west under 53rd Street past a junction with the Sixth Avenue Line to merge with the Eighth Avenue Line-partly parallel to the IRT Sixth Avenue Elevated connection to the IRT Ninth Avenue Elevated along 53rd Street
For instance, when the IRT was reluctant ( if not totally opposed ) to the BRT's proposed access to Midtown Manhattan via the Broadway Line, the city and state negotiators immediately offered the BRT all of the lines under proposal-including such obvious IRT tie-ins such as the upper Lexington Avenue Line, and both lines in Queens.
Technically the line was under IRT ' ownership ', but the BRT / BMT was granted trackage rights in perpetuity, essentially making it theirs also.
The following lines were built under the Dual Contracts for the IRT:
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