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Posted by jamaicalocal on Fri Aug 10 10:00:00 2012, in response to NYC Subway Division, posted by BusRider on Mon Aug 6 21:17:47 2012. As a little background, prior to unification in 1940, only the city owned and operated INDependent Subway used letters on its' routes (A thru GG). The 1956 acquisition of the Rockaway branch was added to the IND and route HH was created for the roundabout run from Euclid Avenue thru the Rockaways and return. With the advent of the Chrystie St project in 1967, it became possible to run former IND and BMT trains on each others trackage. As a result, the former BMT was assigned letters J thru Z. The IRT, being of different dimensions remained a separate division, but was renemed Division A. The merged IND/BMT became Division B. |
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