The BMT Culver Line is a rapid transit line of the BMT division of the New York City Subway, running from Coney Island through Gravesend to Ditmas Avenue, where it becomes the IND Culver Line. Culver Line was originally the popular name of the Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad (owned by Andrew Culver), an excursion railroad line originally opened from a station at the eastern side of Greenwood Cemetery to Coney Island in Kings County, New York (now Brooklyn, New York) in 1875. 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. ... Image of Coney Island (middle left of picture) taken by NASA. The peninsula at right is Rockaway, Queens. ... Gravesend was one of the original towns in the Dutch colony of Nieuw Amsterdam and became one of the original towns of Kings County in colonial New York. ... The IND Culver Line is a rapid transit line of the IND Division of the New York City Subway, extending from the Rutgers Street Tunnel under the East River to the BMT Culver Line at Ditmas Avenue (which continues to Coney Island). ... This is the top-level page of WikiProject trains Rail tracks Rail transport refers to the land transport of passengers and goods along railways or railroads. ... Chapel in Green-Wood Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 as a rural cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, several blocks east of Prospect Park. ... Image of Coney Island (middle left of picture) taken by NASA. The peninsula at right is Rockaway, Queens. ... For other meanings, see Brooklyn (disambiguation). ... A map highlighting Brooklyn and the rest of New York City. ... Official language(s) English Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 27th 141,205 km² 455 km 530 km 13. ... 1875 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...

Extent and service

Culver Line tracks, Coney Island

The BMT Culver Line carries F service over its full length, with no scheduled passenger service on the center express track. There is occasional express service in the Peak direction during rush hours. Express trains and rush-hour put-ins use Kings Highway as a terminal. All other trains terminate at the Coney Island Stillwell Avenue Terminal. Image File history File linksMetadata Dtraintracksconeyisland. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Dtraintracksconeyisland. ... The F Sixth Avenue Local and V Sixth Avenue Local are two services of the New York City Subway. ... The Kings Highway Station on the F service is located in Gravesend on Kings Highway and McDonald Avenue. ... The track configuration around Stillwell Avenue Stillwell Avenue station, also known as Coney Island Terminal or Stillwell Avenue-Coney Island station, at Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City, is the worlds largest single rapid transit terminal facility. ...

At Ditmas Avenue, the Culver Ramp ends and the underground IND Culver Line becomes the elevated BMT Culver Line. The BMT Culver Line is a three-track Dual Contracts elevated on the former BMT line over McDonald (formerly Gravesend) Avenue. After Avenue X station, a ramp diverges to the surface for access to the Culver Yard of the Coney Island Yards complex. At this point the Culver Line narrows to a two-track structure bearing one more station - Neptune Avenue - before curving into West Eighth Street-New York Aquarium station on Coney Island. Formally, the Culver Line ends as the track curve enters the lower level of the double-decked station, and the chaining track designation changes from IND tracks B1 and B2 to BMT tracks A1 and A2 of the Brighton Line. However, there is no longer a connection to the Brighton Line at this point, and for all practical purposes the Culver Line continues into tracks 5 and 6 of the Stillwell Avenue Terminal. The IND Culver Line is a rapid transit line of the IND Division of the New York City Subway, extending from the Rutgers Street Tunnel under the East River to the BMT Culver Line at Ditmas Avenue (which continues to Coney Island). ... Subway redirects here; for the restaurant named Subway, see Subway (restaurant). ... The Dual Contracts of 1913 were contracts for the construction and/or rehabilitation and operation of rapid transit lines in the City of New York. ... Subway redirects here; for the restaurant named Subway, see Subway (restaurant). ... 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 Coney Island Complex is the largest railroad yard in the New York City Subway. ... In the U.S., Chaining is a method by which railroads precisely measure and specify locations along the line. ... The Independent Subway System (IND, formerly ISS), and even earlier the Independent City-Owned Subway System (ICOS) or Independent City-Owned Rapid Transit Railroad was one of the three systems that is now part of the New York City Subway. ... 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 Brighton Line is a rapid transit line of the New York City Subway in Brooklyn, New York City. ... The track configuration around Stillwell Avenue Stillwell Avenue station, also known as Coney Island Terminal or Stillwell Avenue-Coney Island station, at Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City, is the worlds largest single rapid transit terminal facility. ...

History

The Greenwood Cemetery station allowed transfer to horse-drawn streetcars to downtown Brooklyn. As the Culver Line was built on a nearly straight path from terminal to terminal, it was a popular choice for travelers to the Atlantic Ocean shore at Coney Island. a historic postcard showing electric trolley-powered streetcars in Richmond, Virginia, where Frank J. Sprague successfully demonstrated his new system on the hills in 1888 A streetcar is a railway vehicle designed to carry passengers on tracks, usually laid in city streets. ...

Long Island Rail Road ownership

The Culver Line was owned by the Long Island Rail Road from 1895 to 1899 and for a time both before (by interline agreements) and throughout that period, used the Culver Line in whole or in part for a variety of services in combination with its New York and Manhattan Beach Railway lines to provide services variously connecting downtown Brooklyn via the Fifth Avenue Elevated, the 39th Street Ferry and the 65th Street Ferry on the one hand, and the Sheepshead Bay Race Track, West Brighton and Manhattan Beach, the latter two on Coney Island, on the other hand. The Long Island Rail Road or LIRR is a railroad that serves the length of Long Island, New York. ... 1895 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... West New Brighton is a neighborhood of New York City, USA situated along the central North Shore of Staten Island. ... Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, New York Manhattan Beach, California Manhattan Beach, Minnesota Manhattan Beach March by John Phillip Sousa This is a disambiguation page — a list of articles associated with the same title. ...

39th Street Ferry / 5th Avenue Elevated Branch

The Culver Line built a connection to the South Brooklyn Railway, which had built a line to gain access to ferry connections at 39th Street and the waterfront. When this branch, parallel to Brooklyn 37th Street, was electrified with trolley wire elevated trains from the Fifth Avenue Line were able to use the Culver Line to reach Coney Island directly from Park Row in lower Manhattan to Coney Island. Under the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, the Culver became the primary service on the Fifth Avenue El. The South Brooklyn Railway was a freight line in Brooklyn, New York. ... The Pride of Burgundy, a P&O Ferries car ferry on the Dover-Calais route A ferry is a boat or a ship carrying passengers, and sometimes their vehicles, on scheduled services. ... Trolley poles are usually tapered cylindrical poles of wood or metal, used to transfer electricity from a live overhead wire to the control and propulsion equipment of a trolley car, tram or trolley bus. ... Subway redirects here; for the restaurant named Subway, see Subway (restaurant). ... Manhattan Borough,highlighted in yellow, lies between the East River and the Hudson River. ... 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. ...

Greenwood Cemetery Branch

In 1891, the Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad electrified its Coney Island Avenue Streetcar Line and breached its agreement to run its cars to the Culver's Greenwood Cemetery terminal in favor of connecting its own Smith Street Streetcar Line to its former horsecar line. In retaliation, the Culver Line, after electrifying its own line, interoperated with the Nassau Electric Railway's Vanderbilt Avenue Streetcar Line to downtown Brooklyn and lower Manhattan via the Brooklyn Bridge. 1891 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... A horsecar was an animal-powered streetcar (or tram). ... Plan of one tower for the Brooklyn Bridge, 1867. ...

From this start, the Culver Line became a major trolley route in addition to its excursion and elevated railway traffic, accepting connections from a variety of other streetcar lines, many of these for the summer-only trade.

Elevated and subway operations

Route designation on BMT Triplex equipment

The branch to the BMT Fifth Avenue Line was elevated in 1919. Though it had track access to the BMT Fourth Avenue Line subway from that time, it operated only elevated service until the opening of the Nassau Street Loop line in 1931, when a subway service was established, though the elevated line remained the core service until 1940. When the IND Brooklyn Line was connected to the elevated Culver Line in 1954, the BMT Fourth Avenue Service was truncated at Ditmas Avenue, later becoming the Culver Shuttle. The IND section has since become the IND Culver Line; for a while the BMT part was also in the IND division (and was re-chained as such), but with the Chrystie Street Connection opening in 1967, the BMT and IND merged operations. The BMT part still uses BMT radio frequencies Image File history File links Route number signage that appeared on the front of BMT D-type (Triplex) cars from 1927 to 1964 on the New York Subway. ... Image File history File links Route number signage that appeared on the front of BMT D-type (Triplex) cars from 1927 to 1964 on the New York Subway. ... 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... The BMT Fourth Avenue Line is a rapid transit line of the BMT division of the New York City Subway. ... The Brooklyn Loops was a service pattern of the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), now part of the New York City Subway system. ... 1931 (MCMXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The IND Culver Line is a rapid transit line of the IND Division of the New York City Subway, extending from the Rutgers Street Tunnel under the East River to the BMT Culver Line at Ditmas Avenue (which continues to Coney Island). ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... R1 end rollsign R27 end rollsign The Culver Shuttle was a service of the New York City Subway system, running along the BMT Culver Line. ... The Independent Subway System (IND, formerly ISS), and even earlier the Independent City-Owned Subway System (ICOS) or Independent City-Owned Rapid Transit Railroad was one of the three systems that is now part of the New York City Subway. ... The IND Culver Line is a rapid transit line of the IND Division of the New York City Subway, extending from the Rutgers Street Tunnel under the East River to the BMT Culver Line at Ditmas Avenue (which continues to Coney Island). ... 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 Independent Subway System (IND, formerly ISS), and even earlier the Independent City-Owned Subway System (ICOS) or Independent City-Owned Rapid Transit Railroad was one of the three systems that is now part of the New York City Subway. ... In the U.S., Chaining is a method by which railroads precisely measure and specify locations along the line. ... The Chrystie Street Connection is a major connecting line of the New York City Subway System, and is one of the few connections between lines of the BMT and IND divisions. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 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 Independent Subway System (IND, formerly ISS), and even earlier the Independent City-Owned Subway System (ICOS) or Independent City-Owned Rapid Transit Railroad was one of the three systems that is now part of the New York City Subway. ...

Culver streetcars

Streetcar operations on the surface Culver Line continued to the very end of Brooklyn streetcar operations on October 31, 1956. The final services were the McDonald Avenue Streetcar Line (formerly known as Gravesend Avenue Line) and the 16th Avenue Branch of the Church Avenue Street Car (formerly known as Gravesend-Church). The McDonald Avenue Line traced the entire route of the original Culver Line, except at its very southern end, where it rather ironically ended at the West 5th Street Depot of its former rival, the Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad. October 31 is the 304th day of the year (305th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 61 days remaining, as the final day of October. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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Station listing

The IND Culver Line is a rapid transit line of the IND Division of the New York City Subway, extending from the Rutgers Street Tunnel under the East River to the BMT Culver Line at Ditmas Avenue (which continues to Coney Island). ... The F Sixth Avenue Local and V Sixth Avenue Local are two services of the New York City Subway. ... The F Sixth Avenue Local and V Sixth Avenue Local are two services of the New York City Subway. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards and make it more accessible to a general audience, this article may require cleanup. ... The F Sixth Avenue Local and V Sixth Avenue Local are two services of the New York City Subway. ... The F Sixth Avenue Local and V Sixth Avenue Local are two services of the New York City Subway. ... The F Sixth Avenue Local and V Sixth Avenue Local are two services of the New York City Subway. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... The F Sixth Avenue Local and V Sixth Avenue Local are two services of the New York City Subway. ... The F Sixth Avenue Local and V Sixth Avenue Local are two services of the New York City Subway. ... The Kings Highway Station on the F service is located in Gravesend on Kings Highway and McDonald Avenue. ... The F Sixth Avenue Local and V Sixth Avenue Local are two services of the New York City Subway. ... The F Sixth Avenue Local and V Sixth Avenue Local are two services of the New York City Subway. ... The F Sixth Avenue Local and V Sixth Avenue Local are two services of the New York City Subway. ... The F Sixth Avenue Local and V Sixth Avenue Local are two services of the New York City Subway. ... The F Sixth Avenue Local and V Sixth Avenue Local are two services of the New York City Subway. ... The Q Broadway Express is a service of the New York City Subway. ... The Brighton Line is a rapid transit line of the New York City Subway in Brooklyn, New York City. ... The track configuration around Stillwell Avenue Stillwell Avenue station, also known as Coney Island Terminal or Stillwell Avenue-Coney Island station, at Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City, is the worlds largest single rapid transit terminal facility. ... The F Sixth Avenue Local and V Sixth Avenue Local are two services of the New York City Subway. ... The D Sixth Avenue Express is a service of the New York City Subway. ... The West End Line, now a subway line in Brooklyn, New York City, is a branch line from the Broadway (Manhattan)-Fourth Avenue (Brooklyn) subway, serving the communities of Borough Park, New Utrecht, Bensonhurst, Bath Beach and Coney Island. ... The N Broadway Express is a service of the New York City Subway. ... BMT Sea Beach Line - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... The Q Broadway Express is a service of the New York City Subway. ... The Brighton Line is a rapid transit line of the New York City Subway in Brooklyn, New York City. ...

See also

• IND Culver Line
• Transportation to Coney Island

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External links

• NYCsubway.org - BMT Culver Line
• Culver Shuttle history, maps and photos