Services that use the BMT Broadway Line through midtown and downtown have been colored yellow since 1979.
The Broadway Line is a rapid transit line of the BMT division of the New York City Subway system. The line was built as a part of the BRT Broadway-Fourth Avenue Subway and is also known as the Broadway-BMT Line and the Broadway (BMT) Subway. Trains of the N and Q serve the express run via the Manhattan Bridge and the R and W lines the local via the Montague Street Tunnel. The line is often referred to as the N 'n' R due to the N and R services that were the only services which continued to operate over the line during the long years of closure of the Manhattan Bridge south tracks. Trains using this mainline are assigned the color yellow. Image File history File links From the corresponding page linked from the MTA NYC Transit site. ... Image File history File links From the corresponding page linked from the MTA NYC Transit site. ... Image File history File links From the corresponding page linked from the MTA NYC Transit site. ... Image File history File links From the corresponding page linked from the MTA NYC Transit site. ... Metro and Subway redirect here. ... A 1914 map showing what was at the time the proposed expansion for the BRT. The only major differences from what was built is that a new 60th Street Tunnel was used rather than the Queensboro Bridge, the Manhattan-side Brooklyn Bridge connection was never built, and several lines ended... The New York City Subway is a large rapid transit system in New York City, New York, United States. ... The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) was a transportation holding company formed in 1896 to acquire and consolidate transit facilities in Kings County, now Brooklyn, New York. ... The N Broadway Express is a service of the New York City Subway. ... The Q Broadway Express is a service of the New York City Subway. ... View from the East River Cross section The Manhattan Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the East River in New York City, connecting Lower Manhattan with Brooklyn. ... Current and former R services The R Broadway Local is a service of the New York City Subway. ... The W Broadway Local is a service of the New York City Subway. ... The N Broadway Express is a service of the New York City Subway. ... Current and former R services The R Broadway Local is a service of the New York City Subway. ... View from the East River Cross section The Manhattan Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the East River in New York City, connecting Lower Manhattan with Brooklyn. ...
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The Broadway-BMT Line begins at the 60th Street Tunnel from Queens and runs by the following alignment:
West under 60th and 59th Streets as a two-track subway line, curving south under 7th Avenue into 57th Street (Broadway-BMT Line) station, where it joins two tracks of the BMT 63rd Street Line. This part of the line carries the N and W services from the Astoria Line and the R service from the Queens Boulevard Line.
The 63rd Street Line forms the express tracks in 57th Street station, and the tracks from the 60th Street branch the local tracks. There is no scheduled BMT service on the 63rd Street Line at present. These tracks are planned to carry the Q service across 63rd Street and up the Second Avenue Line, when and if built. Therefore the express tracks at 57th Street are currently used as terminal tracks for the Q train.
The Broadway-BMT Line proceeds as a four-track subway down 7th Avenue to its intersection with Broadway, and then continues down Broadway to a point north of Canal Street, where the express tracks carrying the Q and N services are lowered and turn sharply east into the Canal Street (formerly Broadway) station of the Manhattan Bridge Line.
Immediately after Canal Street, the express tracks resume again (originally they had been intended to run through) and serve as storage and turning tracks, bypassing Canal Street local station and ending in the disused lower level of City Hall. The local tracks continue south as a two-track subway to Whitehall Street station. Whitehall Street is a three track, two-platform station, with the center track set up as a terminal track, currently used as the south terminal of W trains.
The Broadway-BMT Line then curves east carrying the R service to a trailing junction with the Nassau Street Line and enters the Montague Street Tunnel to Brooklyn.
Between the bridge and the BMTBroadwayLine, there is one station, at Canal Street (originally known as Broadway) located underneath the BMTBroadwayLine station as well as the similarly named stations on the BMT Nassau Street and IRT Lexington Avenue lines.
The line then merges with the rest of the BMTBroadwayLine north of the local [Canal Street station, which serves trains to and from lower Manhattan.
The Manhattan Bridge Three Cent Line, a streetcar company, began operations on the subway tracks in 1912 until BRT (later BMT) trackage was connected to the bridge in 1915, and the trolleys were moved to the upper level roadways.
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