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Posted by randyo on Fri Oct 2 17:59:05 2015, in response to Re: IRT Platform Extension Dates, posted by Stephen Bauman on Fri Oct 2 17:06:04 2015. I din’t recall any 10 car locals on the IRT during the 1960s. When 8 car trains were run on Pelham, All cars could open on the S/B side but N/B only the first 4 cars would open between Bkln Br and Gr/Cent. On the West Side, local stations S/O T/Sq like the Lex lcl stations N/O G/Cent could only hold 8 cars. I’m not sure when Pelham trains went to to cars, but it wasn’t until some time around 1974 that the Bway Lcls went to 10 cars and at that time, the so called Bway Lcl/Exp which bypassed 215, 207, 157 and 145 Sts was eliminated as was rush hour short turn service from 137 St. The service patter was a bit unique in that i stead of a 2 min rush hour mainline S/O 137 St, with 8 car trains, the headway was 4 min with all trains with 10 cars coming out of 242 St. Midday, there were 137 St short turns but the trains were cut to 5 cars and the headway S/O 137 St was 5 min and 10 min N/O 137 St. That operation didn’t seem to last very long and the midday cutting was eliminated. I’m not sure of the exact chronology of the changes since I left the command center for the IND road in mid 1976 and by December of that year was in the schedule office but not yet on the IRT. |
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