Street and Broadway, Bailey Avenue, at
Kingsbridge near the New York & Putnam Railroad station.
The stations on the Bronx Park or easterly branch are located at the
following points:
One Hundred and Tenth Street and Lenox Avenue, 116th Street and Lenox
Avenue, 125th Street and Lenox Avenue, 135th Street and Lenox Avenue,
145th Street and Lenox Avenue (spur), Mott Avenue and 149th Street,
the intersection of 149th Street, Melrose and Third Avenues, Jackson
and Westchester Avenues, Prospect and Westchester Avenues, Westchester
Avenue near Southern Boulevard (Fox Street), Freeman Street and the
Southern Boulevard, intersection of 174th Street, Southern Boulevard
and Boston Road, 177th Street and Boston Road (near Bronx Park).
[Illustration: PROFILE OF RAPID TRANSIT RAILROAD MANHATTAN AND
BRONX LINES.]
The stations in the Borough of Brooklyn on the Brooklyn Extension are
located as follows:
Joralemon Street near Court (Brooklyn Borough Hall), intersection of
Fulton, Bridge, and Hoyt Streets; Flatbush Avenue near Nevins Street,
Atlantic Avenue and Flatbush Avenue (Brooklyn terminal of the Long
Island Railroad).
From the Borough Hall, Manhattan, to the 96th Street station, the line
is four-track. On the Fort George branch (including 103d Street
station) there are three tracks to 145th Street and then two tracks to
Dyckman Street, then three tracks again to the terminus at Bailey
Avenue. On the Bronx Park branch there are two tracks to Brook Avenue
and from that point to Bronx Park there are three tracks. On the Lenox
Avenue spur to 148th Street there are two tracks, on the City Hall
loop one track, on the Battery Park loop two tracks. The Brooklyn
Extension is a two-track line.
There is a storage yard under Broadway between 137th Street and 145th
Street on the Fort George branch, another on the surface at the end of
the Lenox Avenue spur, Lenox Avenue and 148th Street, and a third on
an elevated structure at the Boston Road and 178th Street. There is a
repair shop and inspection shed on the surface adjoining the Lenox
Avenue spur at the Harlem River and 148-150th Streets, and an
inspection shed at the storage yard at Boston Road and 178th Street.
[Sidenote: _Length of
Line._]
The total length of the line from the City Hall to the Kingsbridge
terminal is 13.50 miles, with 47.11 miles of single track and sidings.
The eastern or Bronx Park branch is 6.97 miles long, with 17.50 miles
of single track.
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