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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Sat Feb 12 08:42:26 2005, in response to Re: NYC Subway trains per hour, posted by stephenk on Sat Feb 12 05:54:05 2005. I was quite surprised that on the 1954 map, the Flushing Line was shown to run 36tphpd at the Times Square end of the line.I've been using the Flushing Line since the early 1950's. I was a regular user, when it operated at 36 tph. Today's paltry 28 tph is my surprise. OTOH, trains appear to be less crowded today, than they were in the 60's and early 70's. it would (as far as I know) have made the Times Square terminus the busiest twin track reverse in platforms terminus of any heavy rail metro system World. In 1914, the Third Ave El was reported to have intervals of 45 seconds. It had two termini: City Hall and South Ferry. Both were twin track termini with bumper blocks. BTW, it shared the South Ferry terminal with the Second Ave El which was reported to have intervals of 2 minutes. That's a total of 110 tph to be shared by two termini. At least one of them had to beat 36 tph. |
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