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Posted by Michael549 on Tue Jan 24 18:26:11 2017, in response to Re: N to 96/2, posted by #5 - Dyre Ave on Tue Jan 24 17:47:23 2017. "But didn't the 57th St B operate express during rush hours? I'd be very surprised if that B ran on the local while the rush hours-only 168th St B ran on the express at the same time. And didn't the original plan for the V train - before the Manhattan Bridge north side tracks shut down in 1986 - call for renaming the 57th St B as the V?"The issues of the V-train and the B-train are really separate issues. In the mid-1970's the city's fiscal crisis led to the elimination of the EE train, the KK or K train and other changes. The rush hours only K or KK train ran between Eastern Parkway (now Broadway Junction, with an earlier edition running from 168th Street and some trains from Atlantic Avenue) to 57th Street-Sixth Avenue. In any case the 57th Street-Sixth Avenue terminal was serviced by the B-train during the non-rush hours, with B-train service operating out of the 168th Street-Washington Heights terminal of the AA train. The elimination of the K or KK train meant that B-trains had to service two terminals during the rush hours - 57th Street-Sixth Avenue AND 168th Street-Washington Heights. The usual rush hours operation of the B-train was to be an express on Sixth Avenue. The B-train also operated on the weekends as a Sixth Avenue local to 57th Street-Sixth Avenue until further budget cuts led to a short shuttle service or the sometime midnight-hours closing of the 57th Street-Sixth Avenue station. The B-train at some points was a midnight hours shuttle from 36th Street to Coney Island on the West End line. While the 63rd Street Tunnel was under construction in the mid-1970's and would receive train service in the mid/late 1980's - that segment was NOT an issue concerning the B-train service. The 1980's and 1990's were heavily concerned with the renovation work of the Manhattan Bridge which brought major changes to the B, D, N, R, W and Q, and Q-diamond train routes with both yellow and orange variations of service. --- In contrast the issues of the V-train does not come about until 2001, when the 63rd Street is attached to the Queens Blvd line, and the F-train is re-route full-time all-time to the 63rd Street Tunnel. Prior to the connection of the 63rd Street Tunnel to/from the Queens Blvd line - the "tunnel to no-where" was serviced by B, Q, F and shuttle trains, and for a time the JFK Train To The Plane. Mike |
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