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The IRT Flushing Line is a rapid transit route of the New York City Subway system, named for its eastern terminal in Flushing, Queens. It is operated as part of the A Division . The Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), a private operator, had constructed the section of the line from Flushing , Queens , to Times Square , Manhattan between ...
The Flushing–Main Street station (signed as Main Street on entrances and pillars, and Main St–Flushing on overhead signs) is the eastern (railroad north) terminal on the IRT Flushing Line of the New York City Subway, located at Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue in Downtown Flushing, Queens. [5]
IRT Dyre Avenue Line (5 train) – entire line; IRT Pelham Line (6 and <6> trains) – entire line; IRT Flushing Line (7 and <7> trains) – from 33rd Street–Rawson Street to Flushing–Main Street; IRT New Lots Line (2, 3, 4, and 5 trains) at Junius Street – center track is not usable in revenue service
IRT Pelham Line IRT Lexington Avenue Line: Pelham Bay Park: Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall: Operates rush hours and midday only, in the peak direction Express on the IRT Pelham Line between Third Avenue and Parkchester and local elsewhere Flushing Local [8] IRT Flushing Line: Flushing–Main Street: 34th Street–Hudson Yards: Operates at all ...
The Flushing Line, its sole line in Queens, is entirely elevated except for a short portion approaching its East River tunnel and its terminal at Flushing–Main Street (the whole Manhattan portion of the line is underground). The Flushing Line has had no track connection to the rest of the IRT since 1942, when service on the Second Avenue El ...
After the end of BMT/IRT dual service, the New York City Board of Transportation announced that the Flushing Line platforms would be lengthened to 11 IRT car lengths; the platforms were only able to fit nine 51-foot-long IRT cars beforehand. [17] [18] The platforms at the station were extended in 1955–1956 to accommodate 11-car trains. [19]
The IRT Flushing Line was to be one of two Dual Contracts lines in the borough, along with the Astoria Line; it would connect Flushing and Long Island City, two of Queens's oldest settlements, to Manhattan via the Steinway Tunnel. When the majority of the line was built in the early 1910s, most of the route went through undeveloped land, and ...
After the end of BMT/IRT dual service, the New York City Board of Transportation announced that the Flushing Line platforms would be lengthened to 11 IRT car lengths; the platforms were only able to fit nine 51-foot-long IRT cars beforehand. [11] [12] The platforms at the station were extended in 1955–1956 to accommodate 11-car trains. [13]