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The predecessor to the subway service known as the Q today was the Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island Railway. On July 2, 1878, this steam railroad began operations on what would become the BMT Brighton Line, from Prospect Park to the Brighton Beach Hotel in Brighton Beach, which opened at the same time.
The weekday-only B train (Brighton Express/Sixth Avenue Express) originates and terminates here on the inner express tracks while the full-time Q train (Brighton Local/Broadway Express) stops here on the outer local tracks, and continues to and from Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue. The next stop to the west (railroad south) is Ocean Parkway for ...
During the 1964–1965 fiscal year, the platforms at Church Avenue, along with those at six other stations on the Brighton Line, were lengthened to 615 feet (187 m) to accommodate a ten-car train of 60 foot (18 m)-long IND cars, or a nine-car train of 67 foot (20 m)-long BMT cars.
We need to remember Daniel Enriquez who, as his sister said, “did die in vain” when a deranged gunman shot and killed the 48-year-old Goldman Sachs employee on the Q train as he was headed to ...
Route designation on BMT Triplex equipment. The Brighton Line opened from the Willink Plaza entrance of Prospect Park (modern intersection of Flatbush and Ocean Avenues and Empire Boulevard, now the Prospect Park station on both the renamed Brighton and the Franklin Avenue Shuttle lines) to Brighton Beach (modern Coney Island Avenue at the shoreline) on July 2, 1878, and the full original line ...
Rail transportation to Coney Island had been available since 1864. The Brooklyn, Bath and Coney Island Railroad was the first steam railroad to Coney Island. It ran from Fifth Avenue and 36th Street in what is now Sunset Park, [7] to its West End Terminal, at the present-day Coney Island Terminal's location, [8] along what is now the right-of-way of the West End Line.
Brooklyn, New York: Borough: Brooklyn: ... toward Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue via Sea Beach ... Q and R trains stop here at all times, and D and N trains stop ...
The Avenue M station (formerly South Greenfield, [3] [4] Elm Avenue [5]), is a local station on the BMT Brighton Line of the New York City Subway. It is located in Midwood, Brooklyn, at Avenue M between East 15th and East 16th Streets. The station is served by the Q train at all times. [6] It is also served by the B train on weekdays until ...