Talk:BMT Brighton Line
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[edit] Former stations
Stations when it was a steam line included the following:
- Bedford
- Bergen Street
- Butler Street (Sterling Place)
- Prospect Park at Malbone Street (Empire Boulevard)
- Flatbush at current Parkside Avenue
- Church Avenue, Church Lane, or Church Street
- Prospect Park South at Beverley Road
- Avenue C (Cortelyou Road)
- Parkville or South Midwood at Newkirk Avenue
- Fiske Terrace at Avenue H
- South Greenfield at Elm Avenue
- Kings Highway
- Avenue U or Homecrest
- Gravesend at [Gravesend] Neck Road
- Sheepshead Bay at Shore Road, which is now called Sheepshead Bay Road
- Brighton Beach terminal at Coney Island Avenue south of Brighton Beach Avenue
Note: These stations did not all exist from the beginning.
[edit] Service history
- 1920-: local, Stillwell-57th via tunnel (all times but weekday and Saturday evenings; by 1931 to Queensboro Plaza in rush hours and middays)
- 1920-: local, Stillwell-57th via bridge (weekday and Saturday evenings; also Sundays by mid-1930s)
- 1920-: express, Brighton Beach-42nd via bridge (weekday and Saturday rush hours and Saturday afternoons; later also middays)
- Prospect Park (later Kings Highway)-Queensboro Plaza via tunnel (weekday middays); eliminated by 1931
The above is incomplete. --NE2 03:09, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
- Local
- 1920-by 1931: Prospect Park (later Kings Highway)-tunnel Broadway (weekday middays)
- 1920-1967: QT Stillwell-tunnel Broadway (weekdays; earlier also Saturdays, and even earlier Sundays)
- 1967-1973: QJ Stillwell-tunnel Nassau (weekdays) (to Brighton Beach until 1968)
- 1973-1986: M Stillwell-tunnel Nassau (weekdays)
- 1967-1986: QB → Q Stillwell-bridge Broadway (rush hours in peak direction) (to Brighton Beach until 1968)
- 1920-1967: QB Stillwell-bridge Broadway (weekday off times and weekends; sometimes to Franklin Saturdays; originally evening theater service)
- 1967-1986: D Stillwell-bridge Sixth (weekday off times and weekends)
- 1986-1988: D Stillwell-bridge Broadway (all times; weekday skip-stop)
- 1988-2001: D Stillwell-bridge Sixth (all times)
- 2001-present: Q Stillwell-bridge Broadway (all times)
- Express
- 1920-1967: Q Brighton Beach-bridge Broadway (weekdays; sometimes local during middays?; originally rush hours only)
- 1967-1968: D Stillwell-bridge Sixth (weekdays)
- 1968-1986: D Brighton Beach-bridge Sixth (weekdays)
- 1986-1988: Q Brighton Beach-bridge Broadway (weekdays; skip-stop)
- 1988-2001: Q Brighton Beach-bridge Sixth (weekdays)
- 2001-2004: <Q> Brighton Beach-bridge Broadway (weekdays)
- 2004-present: B Brighton Beach-bridge Sixth (weekdays)
