Baychester Avenue (IRT Dyre Avenue Line)

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Baychester Avenue
New York City Subway station

Station information
Line	IRT Dyre Avenue Line
Services	5 (all times)
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	3
Other
Borough	Bronx
Opened	May 15, 1941
Next north	Eastchester–Dyre Avenue: 5
Next south	Gun Hill Road: 5

Baychester Avenue is a station on the IRT Dyre Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Baychester and Tillotson Avenues in the Bronx.

Originally opened on May 29, 1912 as a local station of the New York, Westchester and Boston Railway, it was closed on December 12, 1937 when the NYW&B went bankrupt. In 1940 the City of New York purchased the right of way from the Bronx line southward. In 1941 a shuttle service was implemented between Dyre Avenue and East 180th Street using IRT gate cars. In 1957 a physical connection was made to the White Plains Road line and through service provided.

The station has two side platforms and three tracks with space for a fourth. It is on an elevated embankment with a cut in the embankment for the street to run below (Baychester Avenue). The entrance is below the station.