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This is a route-map template for the IND Culver Line, a New York City Subway line.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
The line that this template refers to is the tracks of the IND Culver Line, from Bergen Street to Church Avenue. This template may also be used in the station succession section of Template:Infobox NYCS in appropriate station articles.
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Former stations on BMT Culver Line, to the west of the IND merge north of Ditmas Avenue Sunset Park: Ninth Avenue: all Culver Shuttle: March 16, 1919 [42] [43] Stopped on lower level, which closed on May 11, 1975. Transfer was available to the BMT West End Line. Borough Park: Fort Hamilton Parkway: local Culver Shuttle: March 16, 1919 [42] [43]
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These lines and services were operated by the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT) and city-owned Independent Subway System (IND) before the 1940 city takeover of the BMT. B Division rolling stock is wider, longer, and heavier than those of the A Division , measuring 10 or 9.75 ft (3,048 or 2,972 mm) by 60 or 75 ft (18.29 or 22.86 m).
One of the goals of Mayor John Hylan's Independent Subway System (IND), proposed in the 1920s, was a line to Coney Island, reached by a recapture of the BMT Culver Line. [3] [4] 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. [5]
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