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[4] [6] [7] [16] [22] [23] The four mainline tracks ascend to the Culver Ramp on McDonald Avenue between Cortelyou Road and Avenue C, which connects the subway portion of the IND Culver Line with the former BMT Culver Line elevated structure. Despite being a part of the IND Division, the Culver elevated portion is controlled by BMT radio ...
During the 1950s, the IND was extended over two pieces of elevated line that were disconnected from the original BMT system: the BMT Culver Line in 1954, and the Liberty Avenue extension of the BMT Fulton Street Line in 1956. [1] On October 30, 1954 the Culver Ramp opened, connecting the IND Culver Line to the BMT Culver Line at Ditmas Avenue.
Pages in this category contain stations of the BMT Culver Line of the New York City Subway, originally operated by the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation.Stations from Ditmas Avenue south to Coney Island – Stillwell Avenue were transferred from BMT control to Independent Subway System control in 1954; these stations also appear in Category:IND Culver Line stations.
BMT Culver Line (now IND Culver Line): At Ninth Avenue and at Ditmas Avenue, the original Culver line connected. The trackway is visible at Ditmas Avenue and the ramps are visible at Ninth Avenue. BMT Jamaica Line: West of Gates Avenue, one can see where the structure turned onto Lexington Avenue to head toward the Brooklyn Bridge. The ...
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One of the goals of Mayor John Hylan's IND, proposed in the 1920s, was a line to Coney Island, reached by a recapture of the BMT Culver Line. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] As originally designed, service to and from Manhattan would have been exclusively provided by Culver express trains, while all local service would have fed into the IND Crosstown Line .
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version ... Pages in category "Defunct BMT Culver Line stations" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. ...
Culver Line (New York City Subway), rapid transit from Downtown Brooklyn to Coney Island, combining the former IND Brooklyn Line and BMT Culver Line; Culver Shuttle, former remnant of the BMT Culver Line; Culver Line (surface), the old surface trolley line on McDonald Avenue, built by the Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad and essentially ...