IRT WHITE PLAINS ROAD LINE

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]

Contents

Extent and service

History

Station listing

External links

Extent and service

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

Route	Service	Section of line
	Local	Full line
	Local (express rush hours in peak direction and some midday northbound express runs, no service late nights except between the IRT Dyre Avenue Line and East 180th Street)	East 180th Street to 149th Street–Grand Concourse
	Local, rush hours in peak direction only	Nereid Avenue–238th Street to Gun Hill Road
	Local, rush hours in peak direction only (express some PM rush hour northbound trains)	Gun Hill Road to East 180th Street

Section of line	Tracks	Services
Wakefield–241st Street to Nereid Avenue–238th Street	Local	always
	Express
Nereid Avenue–238th Street to Gun Hill Road	Local	always, rush hours in peak direction
	Express
Gun Hill Road to East 180th Street	Local	always, rush hours in peak direction
	Express	some PM rush hour trips [northbound only]
East 180th Street to 149th Street–Grand Concourse	Local	always, all but late nights and rush hours in peak direction
	Express	rush hours in peak direction and some midday reverse peak direction runs (northbound only)
South of 149th Street–Grand Concourse	All	always

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 late-night Dyre Avenue Shuttle uses the center track to end its run, and rush hour 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 line then passes under the Harlem River and ends at the IRT Lenox Avenue Line at the at-grade 142nd Street Junction.

History

Station listing

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

External links

★ nycsubway.org - IRT Lenox/White Plains Line