Talk:Third Avenue Railway

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The following companies seem to have been part of the system in Manhattan:

• Third Avenue Railway: Third Avenue Line
• Central Park, North and East River Railroad: First Avenue and East Belt Line, West Belt Line, and 59th Street Crosstown Line
• Dry Dock, East Broadway and Battery Railroad: Avenue B Line and Canal and Grand Street Ferry Line
• Forty-Second Street, Manhattanville and St. Nicholas Avenue Railway: 42nd Street Crosstown Line? 125th Street Crosstown Line?? Broadway Branch Line??
• Kingsbridge Railway: Kingsbridge Line?
• One-Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Street Railroad?: 125th Street Crosstown Line

--NE2 04:40, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

These were the Manhattan line names in later days:

• 10 10th Avenue (appears to have run from the west end of 42nd Street north on 10th Avenue, Amsterdam Avenue, and Broadway - to end where? ran at least to LaSalle Street, so probably ended at the west end of 125th Street)
• B Broadway (used 42nd Street - [1])
• K Broadway, Amsterdam Avenue and 125th Street
• T 3rd and Amsterdam Avenues (longest line, City Hall to Fort George)
• X 42nd Street Crosstown
• X 59th Street Crosstown
• X 125th Street Crosstown

--NE2 13:31, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

[2] has some information on 125th Street. --NE2 15:05, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

There was also a Broadway and 145th Street Line: [3] Apparently this was one of the last three lines to be abandoned, along with Broadway-Kingsbridge and 125th Street Crosstown. --NE2 15:11, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Here's a map that should help: [4] --NE2 16:07, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

And some other lines, from [5]:

• They did in fact operate the Broadway Branch Line, which later became the Broadway Line
• Avenue B Line
• Post Office-Brooklyn Line
• Grand Street Line
• 110th Street Crosstown Line

--NE2 16:17, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 1897 list of lines

This is from a Brooklyn Daily Eagle article on April 2, 1897 page 3. Line names were added by me. --NE2 10:41, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Owned

• City Hall via Third avenue to One Hundred and Thirtieth street 8.25 Third Avenue Line
• North river to One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street, East River 2.50 125th Street Crosstown Line
• Tenth avenue, One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street to One Hundred and Eighty-sixth street 3.25 Amsterdam Avenue part of Third and Amsterdam Avenues Line
• Second track 14.00
• Sidings .375

[presumably these were leased, probably all from the Forty-second Street, Manhattanville and St. Nicholas Avenue Railway]

• Forty-second street, North river, to East river 1.97 42nd Street Crosstown Line
• Fifty-ninth street via Tenth avenue to Manhattan street 3.29 apparently the Tenth Avenue Line continued along Amsterdam Avenue all the way to 125th Street - was this the four tracks on Amsterdam Avenue referred to in other articles?
• Forty-second street via Seventh avenue to Boulevard, etc 4.02 Broadway Line minus the trackage between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues?
• North river, Manhattan street, St. Nicholas avenue, One Hundred and Tenth street, to East river 2.76 110th Street Crosstown Line
• Branches .41
• Second track 12.45

Broadway cars began turning east on 42nd Street on either February 10 or February 17, 1908: [6] ("last Monday" from Wednesday, February 19) --NE2 04:28, 2 March 2007 (UTC)