IRT White Plains Road Line

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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.[1]

[edit] Extent and service

The following services use part or all of the White Plains Road Line:

IRT White Plains Road Line

Legend Wakefield–241st Street 239th Street Yard Nereid Avenue–238th Street 233rd Street 225th Street 219th Street Former IRT Third Avenue Line Gun Hill Road Burke Avenue Allerton Avenue IRT Dyre Avenue Line Pelham Parkway Unionport Yard Bronx Park East East 180th Street Yard East 180th Street Yard & Shops East 180th Street Remainder of IRT Dyre Avenue Line demolished 180th Street–Bronx Park (demolished) West Farms Square–East Tremont Avenue 174th Street Freeman Street Simpson Street Intervale Avenue Prospect Avenue Jackson Avenue Former IRT Third Avenue Line Third Avenue–149th Street 149th Street–Grand Concourse IRT Jerome Avenue Line 149th Street Tunnel IRT Lenox Avenue Line

The IRT White Plains Road Line begins at the Wakefield–241st Street terminal, with two tracks and 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-238th Street, a connection comes in from the 239th Street Yard.

Just north of Gun Hill Road, the IRT Third Avenue Line used to 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 station and then turned west.

The IRT Dyre Avenue Line merges to the local tracks just north of East 180th Street, and then crossovers allow those trains to reach the express tracks. The 5 late-night Dyre Avenue Shuttle uses the center track to end its run, and rush hour 5 trains in the peak direction change to the express track here. On the west side of this junction is the East 180th Street Yard; the Unionport Yard is to the east.

The now-gone three-track Bronx Park Spur merged from the west after East 180th Street, with one track into each of the mainline tracks. Just after this on the east side was a connection to the West Farms Yard, also gone.

The express track ends north of Third Avenue–149th Street, and from there to the end the line has two tracks. Formerly in that area there was a connection just to the north to the local tracks of the IRT Third Avenue Line, and a connection to the south, bypassing 149th Street station on the Third Avenue Line (Bergen Street Bypass). Just past those former connections, the line goes underground to run beneath the Harlem River.

Just after 149th Street–Grand Concourse, tracks split off and turn south to merge with the local tracks of the IRT Jerome Avenue Line. The Jerome Avenue Line then merges with the IRT Pelham Line to become the IRT Lexington Avenue Line.

The line then passes under the Harlem River and ends at the IRT Lenox Avenue Line at the at-grade 142nd Street Junction.

[edit] History

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[edit] Station listing

Station service legend
	Stops all times
	Stops all times except late nights
	Stops all times except rush hours in the peak direction
	Stops rush hours in the peak direction only
Time period details

	Station	Tracks	Services	Opened	Transfers and notes
	Wakefield–241st Street	all	2	December 13, 1920	originally East 241st Street
	Nereid Avenue–238th Street	local	2  5	March 31, 1917	originally East 238th Street
	233rd Street	local	2  5	March 31, 1917	originally East 233rd Street
	225th Street	local	2  5	March 31, 1917	originally East 225th Street
	219th Street	local	2  5	March 3, 1917	originally East 219th Street
	Gun Hill Road	all	2  5	March 3, 1917
	Burke Avenue	local	2  5	March 3, 1917
	Allerton Avenue	local	2  5	March 3, 1917
	Pelham Parkway	local	2  5	March 3, 1917
	Bronx Park East	local	2  5	March 3, 1917
Merge from IRT Dyre Avenue Line (5 )
	East 180th Street	all	2  5	March 3, 1917
	180th Street	Bronx Park spur	Demolished	November 26, 1904
	West Farms Square–East Tremont Avenue	local	2  5	November 26, 1904	originally 177th Street, then East Tremont Avenue–Boston Road
	174th Street	local	2  5	November 26, 1904
	Freeman Street	local	2  5	November 26, 1904
	Simpson Street	local	2  5	November 26, 1904
	Intervale Avenue	local	2  5	November 1909?	originally Intervale Avenue–163rd Street
	Prospect Avenue	local	2  5	November 26, 1904
	Jackson Avenue	local	2  5	November 26, 1904
	Third Avenue–149th Street	all	2  5	July 10, 1905	originally Third Avenue
	149th Street–Grand Concourse	all	2  5	July 10, 1905	4  (IRT Jerome Avenue Line) originally Mott Avenue
Split with connection to IRT Jerome Avenue Line (5 )
Merge with IRT Lenox Avenue Line (2 )

[edit] External links

• nycsubway.org - IRT Lenox/White Plains Line

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