IRT White Plains Road Line
| IRT White Plains Road Line | |
|---|---|
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| Overview | |
| Type | Rapid transit |
| System | New York City Subway |
| Termini |
Wakefield–241st Street 149th Street–Grand Concourse |
| Stations | 20 |
| Daily ridership | 307,666 |
| Operation | |
| Opened | 1904-1920 |
| Owner | City of New York |
| Operator(s) | New York City Transit Authority |
| Character | Elevated (Most of the line) Underground (3rd Ave and Grand Concourse stations only) |
| Technical | |
| Number of tracks | 2-3 |
| Track gauge | 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) |
| Electrification | 600V DC third rail |
The White Plains Road Line is a rapid transit line of the IRT division of the New York City Subway serving the central Bronx. It is mostly elevated and served both subway and elevated trains until 1952. The original part of the line, the part opened as part of the first subway was called the West Farms Division, and the extension north to 241st Street as part of the Dual Contracts was called the White Plains Road Line. Eventually, however, the two parts came to be known as the White Plains Road Line.
It is currently being used by the 2 as the local at all times and the 5 as the local at all times except rush hours in peak direction (when it runs express between East 180th Street and Third Avenue–149th Street) and late nights (when it runs as a shuttle between Eastchester–Dyre Avenue and East 180th Street).
The following services use part or all of the White Plains Road Line:
The IRT White Plains Road Line begins at the Wakefield–241st Street terminal, with two tracks, one island platform, and two closed side platforms. Crossovers just south of the station take trains to the correct tracks and a center express track comes out of those crossovers. Between Wakefield–241st Street and Nereid Avenue, a connection comes in from the 239th Street Yard.
Just north of Gun Hill Road, the now demolished IRT Third Avenue Line split from the local tracks (with crossovers to the express tracks just to the north). The line went to a lower level of Gun Hill Road and then turned west.
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