Talk:IND Fulton Street Line
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I changed the section that mentioned that the line was double level under Fulton St. That is simply not the case. With the exception of Nostrand Avenue all 4 tracks are on the same level.
--Allan 19:10, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
Merger text from IND article
Clipped from there, maybe for merger into here:
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This is primarily a four-tracked subway running through Central Brooklyn. It starts in Manhattan at Chambers St. and curves South and East under Fulton St. (in Manhattan) It then leaves via the Fulton-Cranberry Sts. Tunnels and enters Brooklyn under Cranberry St. It continues to Jay Street and then turns under that thoroughfare and has a transfer station and direct track connections with the 6 Av. subway at Jay St.-Borough Hall. It then turns East and meets with two tracks from the crosstown line (although there are no track connections) and two other tracks from the Transit Museum (the Court St. Station, abandoned in 1945.) at the Hoyt-Schermerhorn St. Station—A massive six track-four platform transfer station under Schermerhorn St. The Crosstown operates on the two innermost tracks that are next to each other. On outer sides of these tracks there are platforms separating the Crosstown and Fulton Lines, and yet another set of platforms separating the Fulton St. Line from the tracks to Court St.
Unusual in design, the tunnels outside of the station are completely grade separated.
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The Fulton Street Subway now curves out of the station and exchanges switches with the tracks from the Museum. These become the local tracks and the line continues under Fulton Street to East New York, then they curve under Pennsyvania Av. with a stop at Liberty Av. The subway then curves under Pitkin Av. to Euclid Av. After this station the line becomes 2 tracked and the subway stops at its last underground stop, and also its last stop in Brooklyn-Grant Av. The subway now emerges onto the BMT Liberty Av. Elevated (the Queens Portion of the same El that ran over Fulton St—the Fulton St Elevated, which was torn down because of the subway construction that would in a few years when opened, compete with it), crosses the border into Queens, and it's on to the Rockaways.