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Posted by Michael549 on Sat Apr 12 11:57:18 2008, in response to Re: G Train Hearing at City Hall, posted by Broadway Lion on Sat Apr 12 10:48:39 2008. From a previous message: "The (A) was *supposed* to run Express, and the (H) was *supposed to be the Local from Euclid to Court Street. When said (H) was discontinued (did it ever *really* run as originally designed?) the (A) became a local."Actually that is kind of debatable, considering the history of the IND as built and actually run, and as planned at various stages. Yes, the track maps strongly suggest that an HH Fulton Local train would have made all local stops from Court Street to the terminal, it is that the plans for the terminals of the Fulton Street line changed over time due to many circumstances. For example the A train first ended at Rockaway Avenue a local station, where somewhere near Lafayette Avenue, the C Concourse express joined the A-route to/from Manhattan in the late-1930's. However the Court Street shuttle (often called the HH) runs from about 1937 to 1946. There were a number of extensions of the route, and planned terminals that did not happen, as well as a "steal of a subway deal". Essentially the A-train was the only service that ran on the Fulton Street section on the weekends and nights for the last several decades. At some point, especially after the Rockaways sections are added to the A-train route, the E train ran along with the A-train on the Fulton line. This continues for a few decades with A and E-trains switching local and express duties in Brooklyn. However the E-trains generally ran along this Fulton Street and Rockaway sections during the rush hours - leaving the A-train to handle all of the stations during the nights and weekends. Only after the 1990's, after the C-train is extended to Brooklyn and/or the Rockaways - does the A-train begin to run express at times other than the rush hours. At the NYCSubway.Org website there is a wonderful document called, "History of the Independent Subway" that details many of the plans, ideas and actually happenings. Mike |
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