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Re: M to West 4th on Weekends/Late Nights

Posted by Michael549 on Thu Jun 18 19:43:59 2015, in response to Re: M to West 4th on Weekends/Late Nights, posted by Joe V on Thu Jun 18 18:29:25 2015.

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In my previous message, I cited two stations, and now I will cite three stations - DeKalb Avenue.

I will detail the historical train switch problems at the Brighton Beach-BMT, and 96th Street-IRT subway stations - as the past informing the present or the proposed. Why repeat such mistakes?

West 96th Street-IRT - Until about the mid-1950's the TA operated the following set of services on the west-side IRT lines:

- A Broadway-Seventh Avenue Express from Van Cortlandt Park to either New Lots Avenue or Flatbush Avenue;
- A Seventh Avenue Express from West 180th Street-Bronx Zoo to either New Lots Avenue or Flatbush Avenue;
- A Broadway-Seventh Avenue local from 137th Street-City College to South Ferry, and
- A Lenox-Seventh Avenue local from 145th Street to South Ferry.

Basically two express routes and two local routes converged on the 96th Street station. The trains that traveled the longer distances were the express routes in Manhattan. (The eastside lines more resembled the current route numbers.)

In any case two routes, the Broadway-7 Avenue local (to/from 137th Street), and the 7th Avenue Express (Bronx to/from Brooklyn local) were the straight rail routes. The other routes (Broadway-7th Avenue Express to/from Van Cortlandt), and the Lenox-Broadway local (to/from 145th Street) had to be switch both to and from the express and local tracks, where in this case all switch operations occurred on the same level.

The TA recognized by the mid-1950's that the chris-crossing of trains delayed train service in both directions negatively affecting service in the Bronx, Upper Manhattan and Brookyn. (See http://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/IRT_West_Side_Line) The TA decided that all of the express trains would use Lenox Avenue, while all local trains would remain on Broadway - eliminating the need for any trains to cross paths.

Mike

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