Talk:IND Queens Boulevard Line
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Text pasted from the IND article, might be useful to merge if there are details not covered already. Kaisershatner 15:24, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
This subway is a four-tracked subway that begins at Queens Plaza Station in Long Island City, Queens, the meeting point of the Brooklyn-Queens Crosstown Subway from Brooklyn, and the 53 St. Crosstown subway from Manhattan. From here the line is 4 tracks under Northern Blvd. to 37 Av., where the line splits into two, with the two local tracks swinging north under Steinway St. (not a coincidence!), and then east under Broadway to for several dozens of blocks to Queens Blvd. The two express tracks continue under Northern Blvd. until this thoroughfare intersects with Broadway. At this point the express tracks and local tracks rejoin once again forming a 4-track subway under Broadway and Queens Blvd. The line continues under Queens Blvd. to Van Wyck Blvd. (now the Van Wyck Expressway and its service roads). Here the line splits into two branches, one as a 4-track subway under Hillside Av. and runs to 179 St., and the other to the new Archer Av. Subway (opened in 1988). This branch to the Archer Av. Subway was originally a dead end known as the Van Wyck Stub. The Queens Blvd line today is New York City's second most crowded subway line.
- All the information given here is more or less already in the article. In addition, the 53rd Street Line is not a separate line, but simply the western end of the Queens Blvd Line. —Larry V (talk) 18:17, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Service history
- Local west of Forest Hills, 1933-present
- E 1933-1937, to 8th local
- EE 1937-1937?, Forest Hills to Crosstown local (rush hours)
- E 1937-1940?, Jamaica to 8th local (non-rush hours)
- GG 1937-1940??, Forest Hills to Crosstown local (rush hours)
- GG/G 1940-1995?, Forest Hills to Crosstown local
- G 1995?-2001, Forest Hills to Crosstown local (weekdays)
- G 2001-present, Forest Hills to Crosstown local (non-weekdays)
- V 2001-present, Forest Hills to 6th local (weekdays)
- Local-express, 1937-present
- E 1937-1940?, Jamaica to 8th local-express (rush hours)
- E 1940-1988, Jamaica to 8th local-express
- E 1988-present, Archer to 8th express (local-express non-weekdays)
- Full express, 1940-present
- F 1940-1950, Parsons to 6th express
- F 1950-196x, Jamaica to 6th express (express east of Parsons rush hours only)
- F 196x-1988, Jamaica to 6th express (rush hours; later midday express west of Parsons)
- F 196x-1988, Jamaica to 6th local-express (non-rush hours; later non-weekdays)
- F 1988-ca. 1990, Forest Hills to 6th express??
- F ca. 1990-2001, Jamaica to 6th local-express
- F 2001-present, Jamaica to 63rd local-express
- 60th Street Tunnel, 1955-present
- QB 1955-1961, Forest Hills to 60th local (weekdays)
- RR 1961-1967, Forest Hills to 60th local (weekdays)
- EE 1967-1976, Forest Hills to 60th local (weekdays)
- N 1976-1987, Forest Hills to 60th local
- R 1987-1988, Forest Hills to 60th local
- R 1988-ca. 1990, Jamaica to 60th local
- R ca. 1990-present, Forest Hills to 60th local
[edit] Notes
[1] should help with the effect of the line. --NE2 08:12, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
