Talk:BMT Nassau Street Line

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[edit] Notes on service history

1 → QJ
  • mid-1930s-1967: Broad via bridge (morning rush hours only)
  • 1967-1973: through with J
2 → RR → RJ → RR
  • mid-1930s-1967: Broad via bridge (morning rush hours only)
  • 1967-1968: through with J (rush hours only)
  • 1968-1980s: Chambers (rush hours only)
3 → TT
  • 1931-1967: CW loop (rush hours only; later daytime only)
5
  • 1931-1959?: Chambers via tunnel (CCW loop rush hours)
10 → M
  • 1914-1968: Chambers (daytime only)
  • 1968-1973: Broad (daytime only)
  • 1973-1995: through with B (daytime only; cut back to Chambers middays 1995-2001 and 2004-present)
14 → JJ/RJ
  • 1913-?: Chambers (Canal am rush hours)
  • ?-1967: Canal (daytime only)
  • 1967-1968: JJ Broad (daytime only; rush hours to Canal), RJ through with R (rush hours only)
15 → QJ → J/Z
  • 1913-1931: Chambers
  • 1931-1967: Broad
  • 1967-1973: through with Q
  • 1973-present: Broad (cut back to Chambers weekends in 1990s)
1924-25
  • 10 Chambers (daytime only)
  • 14 Chambers (Canal am rush hours)
  • 15 Chambers
1931-39
  • 1 special Broad via bridge (morning rush hours only): added between 1931 and 1937
  • 2 special Broad via bridge (morning rush hours only): added between 1931 and 1937
  • 3b CW loop (rush hours only)
  • 5a Chambers via tunnel (CCW loop rush hours)
  • 10 Chambers (daytime only)
  • 14 Canal (daytime only)
  • 15 Broad

It appears that the Manhattan Bridge south tracks were unused until 1931, unless they were used in the early days but then all trains were taken off. --NE2 03:03, 23 March 2007 (UTC)