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Posted by randyo on Fri Jan 27 16:15:39 2017, in response to Re: N to 96/2, posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Fri Jan 27 13:42:01 2017. Under the original lettering system as originally applied to the BMT, the NYCTA exhibited a certain amount of logic in naming the Eastern Division lines. J/JJ for Jamaica and M for what was then Myrtle.Chambers made perfect sense. KK was used for the Bway Bkln Lcl service as originally operated to Canal St although by the time the KK was eventually used, the Bway Bkln Lcl was no longer a Nassau St service but became a 6 Av service. The only thing about the lettering that didn’t make sense was the insistence on BMT lines becoming Manhattan centric by the eventual elimination of the branch line names which was the way all BMT lines were described for years. The 14 St line used the designation LL to keep it within the Eastern Div grouping. After the M, the next letter in order was N which was used for the Sea Beach followed by the rest of the letters in the alphabet which were use to this day. The unfortunate result of the Manhattan centric thinking of the TA was that certain services ended up as they are today, misnamed. The PROPER way to have named BMT routes would have been to use ONLY the branch names of the lines and leave out the name “Bway” since with the exception of the Sea Beach all Southern Division lines had both Bway and Nassau St services. The only reading that was proper was the “TT/West End Lcl” which was used both for West End Lcls via Nassau St and West End shuttle operating between Stl and 36/4. If all the Southern Div signs had been made this way, then Bright Exps via Nassau could have used the letter Q instead of being mislabeled with an M. The letter M was also used for the 4 Av Expresses to Chambers St since the TA Planners failed to provide an “R/4 Ave Express” sign for that service or a “RR/4 Ave Local” for the PM returning service which ran lcl instead of express. |
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