57st & Broadway Trackways
Rev. Trashcan Man
North of the 57th Street & B'way station there are two trackways (without
tracks) which go to an upper level and are sealed off. Anyone know where
they go or were supposed to go?
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Richard J. Concepcion
>(without tracks) which go to an upper level and are sealed off.
>Anyone know where they go or were supposed to go?
I believe you're really referring to the station at 57 St.& 7th
Ave (served by the N & R trains). As far as I know, the
trackways that head up the ramp away from the 60 St.Tunnel were
originally meant to serve a proposed BMT route to Washington
Heights that was never built. During the New Routes Expansion
program started in the early 1970's, the express tracks north of
57 Street that went up this ramp were then tied into the new 63
St.Tunnel that extends East to 21 St.Queensbridge via Roosevelt
Island, and will eventually be hooked up with the Queens Plaza
station through a new tunnel now being built in Long Island City.
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(Rev. Trashcan Man) writes:
>North of the 57th Street & B'way station there are two trackways (without
>tracks) which go to an upper level and are sealed off. Anyone know where
>they go or were supposed to go?
In the early days of the building of the BMT subway and the IRT subway,
the BMT company was bidding for the Lexington Avenue Subway. They built
those ramps in anticipation of getting the contract. However, as we all
know, the IRT company got the contract.
Allan Berlin irt...@aol.com
Bronx, NY
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Michael549
active use or function. The side ramps that you are talking about were
part of "theorized" extension of the BMT line under Central Park - the
extension was never built.
The express tracks were used as layup tracks for N and QB express trains,
until those tracks were attached to the 63rd Street tunnel to Queens. If
you
were to notice the 63rd Street route (from the BMT line) you would see
the
track leads to proposed Second Avenue subway line. The 63rd Street -
Lexington subway station is actually very different than what it seems.
Michael-549
Subject: 57st & Broadway Trackways
From: ct...@aloha.cc.columbia.edu (Rev. Trashcan Man)
Date: 12 Apr 1996 23:16:31 GMT
Message-ID: <4kmo8f$h...@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>
North of the 57th Street & B'way station there are two trackways (without
tracks) which go to an upper level and are sealed off. Anyone know where
they go or were supposed to go?
Constantino Tobio, Jr.
PhilipHom
writes:
>In
message:<4kmo8f$h...@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>ct...@aloha.cc.columbia.edu
>(Rev. Trashcan Man) writes:
>
>>North of the 57th Street & B'way station there are two trackways
(without
>>tracks) which go to an upper level and are sealed off. Anyone know where
>>they go or were supposed to go?
>
>
>In the early days of the building of the BMT subway and the IRT subway,
>the BMT company was bidding for the Lexington Avenue Subway. They built
>those ramps in anticipation of getting the contract. However, as we all
>know, the IRT company got the contract.
>
>
>
>
I always thought that was for the Central Park West line, which the city
build but gave it to the IND to run.
Phil Hom