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Posted by randyo on Wed Jan 21 03:30:26 2026, in response to Re: Lenox Terminal, uncovered, posted by Italianstallion on Tue Jan 20 15:55:18 2026. Actually, before the letterization of the BMT with the arrival of the R-27s there was a definite logic the both the BMT’s and IRT’s numbering schemes and the IND’s lettering schemes. The letterization of BMT lines was an attempt to bring signage into compliance with the IND but unfortunately it didn’t work for thr BMT. While the IND’s lettering system attached the lines’ letters to appropriate combinations of branch line to trunk line such as A/AA with Wash Hts/8th Ave, B/BB Wash Hts/6th Ave, C/CC Concourse/8th Ave etc, BMT route numbers were the same for the branch lines regardless of whether the trains ran via Bway or Nassau St. Thus 1 was Brighton for both Bway and Nassau services, 2 was 4th Ave for both Beay and Nassau services (although on those lines the Nassau service were rush hour specials only and 3 was West end for both the express via Bway and the lcl via Nassau St. When the TA started to letterize the BMT lines, it made the mistake of combining the readings of the branch and trunk lines so that for example the Brighton read Q/Bway-Brighton Exp, the 4th Ave read RR/Bway- 4th Ave Lcl etc despite the fact that both those line had special rush hour services via Nassau St. When the time came to assign R types to those lines, the Nassau specials ended up being mislabeled as M/ Nassau St Exp, a letter that was actually meant forthe Myrtle-Chambers service. The only reading that left out the Manhattan trunk line for the local was TT which read simply TT/West End Lcl since it ran both as a Nassau St service and a West End shuttle to 36th St. Starting with the R-32s, the branch line names were eliminated from the reading completely with the route only indicating “Broadway.” The so called reason being that the other divisions don;t have branch line names in the readings so why should the BMT. The cesspool of incompetence that passes for TA planning totally ignored the fact that unlike the other divisions, the BMT had multiple branch lines going to a common terminal, Stillwell, so the branch line names were essential. Common sense which the planners obviously lacked mandated that the readings should have only the branch line names and leave off the Manhattan route name so that proper readings could be displayed for all possible services. |
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