Route designation on BMT Triplex equipment 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. It is served full time by trains of the D route, and weekdays by trains of the M route, which provides direct access to the financial district. This page refers to urban rail mass transit systems. ...
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Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ...
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Borough Park (or Boro Park), located in Kings County, New York, commonly known as Brooklyn, contains one of the largest religious Jewish neighborhoods outside of Israel. ...
New Utrecht is a neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. ...
Bensonhurst is a blue collar/middle class neighborhood located in the south-central part of New York Citys borough of Italian immigrants moved into the neighborhood, and today their descendants make up the vast majority of its population along with longtime Chinese population. ...
Image of Coney Island (middle left of picture) taken by NASA. The peninsula at right is Rockaway, Queens. ...
View up Wall Street from Pearl Street Wall Street is the name of a narrow thoroughfare in lower Manhattan running east from Broadway downhill to the East River. ...
Although it was early dubbed the West End Line, it was also known as the Gunther's Road and the Bath Beach Line while it was a steam railroad. When planned as an elevated line, it was originally mapped as the New Utrecht Avenue Line but the common name prevailed after construction.
History
Opening as steam road The West End Line was opened on October 5, 1863 as a steam dummy road, the Brooklyn, Bath and Coney Island Rail Road (BB&CI), to serve the communities between the Brooklyn city line and Bath Beach. At 11:00 on June 8, 1864, the extension to Coney Island was opened to the public, making it the first excursion railroad to bring beachgoers from downtown Brooklyn. At the Brooklyn end, the steam line ended at 36th Street and Fifth Avenue, where the BB&CI's own horsecars ran to a connection with horsecars of the Brooklyn City Railroad at 25th Street and Fifth Avenue. The odd double transfer was made necessary by Brooklyn's refusal to allow the line to operate steam cars within its city limits. October 5 is the 278th day of the year (279th in Leap years). ...
1863 is a common year starting on Thursday. ...
A steam dummy or dummy engine, in the United States of America, was a steam engine enclosed in a wooden box structure made to resemble a railroad passenger coach. ...
June 8 is the 159th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (160th in leap years), with 206 days remaining. ...
1864 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
Image of Coney Island (middle left of picture) taken by NASA. The peninsula at right is Rockaway, Queens. ...
Beach A beach or strand is a geological formation consisting of loose rock particles such as sand, shingle, or cobble along the shoreline of a body of water. ...
A horsecar was an animal-powered streetcar (or tram). ...
The road took its common name from the area of its terminal on Coney Island, where a hotel of the same name, but unconnected to the railroad, existed. Its terminal was known as West End Terminal, a name which survived upon major rebuilding in 1919 as New West End Terminal before that name fell into disuse. West End Terminal described a series of railroad terminals located on Coney Island, near what is now the northeast corner of Surf and Stillwell Avenues. ...
1919 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
Reorganizations The road was reorganized in 1868, on January 22, 1879, and again on December 1, 1885, the latter time changing its name to the Brooklyn, Bath and West End Railroad, formalizing the use of West End in the line's name. Before that time, the original steam dummy cars, which consisted of a locomotive and passenger car in one railroad-coach-type frame, were replaced by conventional steam locomotives pulling unpowered coaches. 1868 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
January 22 is the 22nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1879 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
December 1 is the 335th (in leap years the 336th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1885 is a common year starting on Thursday. ...
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A series of lease agreements between 1893 and 1899 put the West End in control of a series of other companies, the last putting it under the control of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) system on April 1, 1899. 1893 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
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. ...
April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. ...
1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
Part of the Brooklyn elevated system BRT control paved the way for the line to be connected to the elevated system, and in 1900 electric service began between Park Row, Manhattan, and Bath Beach, Brooklyn. Trains operated by third rail power to a ramp at 37th Street, and from that point, trains raised trolley poles to operate from overhead wire, mostly on streets, to Coney Island. 1900 is a common year starting on Monday. ...
Third rail at Bostons South Station A third rail is a method of providing electricity to power a railroad, typically a mass transit system. ...
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. ...
Part of the New York City subway system Under the Dual Contracts of 1913, the line was rebuilt as an elevated line over New Utrecht Avenue, 86th Street and Stillwell Avenue, fully opening to Coney Island on July 21, 1917. The original surface right-of-way was retained for use by trolley cars to provide local service and protect the company's franchise. 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. ...
July 21 is the 202nd day (203rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 163 days remaining. ...
1917 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
See also South Ferry station 125th Street station The New York City Subway is a large rapid transit system in New York City, New York, United States. ...
IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line Brooklyn Branch 42nd Street Shuttle Dyre Avenue Line Eastern Parkway Line Flushing Line Jerome Avenue Line Lenox Avenue Line Lexington Avenue Line Nostrand Avenue Line White Plains Road Line BMT 63rd Street Line Archer Avenue Line Astoria Line Brighton Line Broadway Line Canarsie Line Culver...
The Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) was the operator of the original New York Subway line that opened in 1904 and additional rapid transit lines in the City of New York. ...
Current bullet R12 end rollsign 1967-1968 and 1968-1977 bullets (in a circle) The 42nd Street Shuttle (also Grand Central-Times Square Shuttle) is a line and service of the IRT division 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...
R1 end rollsign R27 end rollsign for BMT shuttles 1967-1968 and 1968-1979 bullets (in a circle) The S-Franklin Avenue Shuttle is a shuttle train service of the New York City Subway operating in Brooklyn, New York. ...
The Brooklyn Bridge (originally the New York and Brooklyn Bridge), one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States, stretches 6016 feet (1834 m) over the East River from Manhattan to Brooklyn and was the first steel_wire suspension bridge in the world. ...
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 Sixth Avenue Line is a rapid transit line of the IND division of the New York City Subway system, running mostly under Sixth Avenue in Manhattan. ...
A 1941 view of a sign for the Eighth Avenue Subway The Eighth Avenue Line is the original rapid transit line of the Independent Subway System (IND), now run by the New York City Transit Authority as part of the New York City Subway system. ...
The Concourse Line is a subway branch line of the New York City Subway system, extending from 205th Street in the Norwood section of the Bronx to join with the Eighth Avenue Line at 145th Street in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan. ...
The New York City Subway was formed from three different systems, the IRT, BMT and IND. For operational purposes, the IRT is A Division and the BMT and IND make B Division; however, common usage calls the three systems divisions. ...
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. ...
Transportation to Coney Island - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ...
External links
References - Opening of the Brooklyn, Bath and Coney Island Railroad, New York Times June 9, 1864 page 2
- Railroad History Database (http://www.earlpleasants.com/search_1.asp)
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