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Posted by Mellow One on Mon Sep 12 16:25:13 2011, in response to Re: Question - Dyre Avenue Line, posted by andy on Mon Sep 12 08:50:51 2011. Management of the Dyre Ave line was transferred to IRT control when the s/b fly-over track to connect the line to the White Plains Road Line was approved, whenever that occured. I can not remember exactly when construction of the fly-over began, maybe sometime in 1955.Prior to the s/b flyover opening for revenue ops in 1957, one had to go down stairs and walk over to the former NYWB concourse and go up to the "shuttle or dinky" n/b platform to board a Dyre Ave Line train. Prior to 1957, the two-track Dyre Ave line ended at a single track turn-back at the n/b platform at each end of the line, and that was the operation at Dyre Ave until that terminal was rebuilt in 2000? There was a single n/b track connection from the n/b White Plains Road line (local) track North of the 180th St station, see "http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?43063". My first ride on the line occured in 1952 or 3 in the monitor roof Hi-V cars. Fares (North of 180th St) were collected by the conductor with a fare box in the center of the car, see "http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?43573". Weather the line was operated by IND or IRT crews is an insignificant footnote in the history of the line, which is a much richer story in the context of NYC and Bronx Transit history. See "http://www.angelfire.com/fl/mainframeconsole/dyre_ave_line_memories/index.album/dyre-ave-line-memories?i=0". |
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