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Posted by renee gil on Thu Aug 2 14:35:10 2012, in response to Re: Unbuilt Stuff, posted by mike nash on Wed Aug 1 21:12:11 2012. This station was originally planned to be a local station with a mezzanine. It was designed as one. The upper platforms are double wide which would have been consistent with the design of a mezzanine. The change was probably made in the early days of it's construction, probably after changing it to a more recognizable express format became impossible or too costly. That's why they decided to make it an express station instead. They decided this early on (as the tiles change color at Nostrand), but it was after the shell was already there that the IND probably decided to make it an express station. The express tracks ascend and decend, they don't curve too far outward, so there would have been enough to make a normal station at that point if they didn't already build a "local" station shell there before they changed the plans in the 30's. The express tracks and local tracks are not perfectly on top of each other like at other stacked express stations. They are in the middle, just on a different level. Nostrand Avenue is an after-thought express station. If the IND planned it as a stacked express station from the beginning, it would have platforms that look like those at Kingston-Throop Avenue, and the platforms would have been stacked right on top of each other, and the tracks right on top of each other. By the time it was time for the tiles, it was already decided that Nostrand would be an express station, having the express tracks go through what was originally planned to be the mezzanine of a local station. If it was planned to be a double-decker express station right from the start because of topography, it would look like Bergen Street. The underground ROW IS four tracks wide at this staation, not two tracks wide. The express tracks go up to what was supposed to be a mezzanine, and are still in between the local tracks, except they are one level up. The curtain wall between the local tracks on the lover level hides the big void where the two express tracks were originally supposed to go through.There is a closed passageway with a crossover to Bedford Avenue at the north end of the upper level along with a closed exit to Arlington Place. The closed passageway was built for a transfer to an proposed subway line, which is why the overpass was placed there. There might a shell station at this location. There is an emergency exit at that location is in fact the superstructure for an Bedford Avenue subway. The lower level has a curtain wall separating the two tracks and inside are two additional trackways. West (railroad north) of this station, there is some sort of provision in the tunnel structure for the eventual construction for a subway line. The tunnel roof is unusually high to provide the space for the construction for that future subway line. It's interesting to note that all the proposed IND Second System or even the "Third System" lines, there seems to be the least information about this subway line other than that one was proposed. That may also be why there are only minimal provisions for its construction as opposed to other lines of the IND Second System. |
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