Talk:IRT Third Avenue Line
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[edit] Headway?
What does headway mean in these sentences: The route still mimics a subway line headway and employs articulated buses. While no night service is provided, the Bx15, a local complement of the Bx55, runs every 20 minutes, a standard subway headway for late nights. Sounds like some kind of railfan jargon which most people won't understand. -- RoySmith (talk) 02:08, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
- Headway is the time between trains. I'll add a link in the text to that article. --NE2 02:16, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] History?
What happened before the IRT got it? Who built it? When ? Always electric ? DCDuring 00:07, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
Manhattan Railways had all the Manhattan els by 1880. Steam power. Got that from Brian J. Cudahy (1988), Under the Sidewalks of New York rev. ed., ISBN 0828906858. He cites: Robert C. Reed (1978), The New York Elevated New York and S. Brunswick, NJ, A. S. Barnes & Co. In a footnote Cudahy also says that they hadn't electrified as of 1888. DCDuring 00:22, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
Good source would seem to be James Blaine Walker's 1918 history of the subway, which starts with 1863 efforts! DCDuring 02:57, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] This was the 8 train
This should be mentioned. One question people ask is, there's a 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and (until 2006) a 9 train. What was the 8 train? This was it. 64.105.124.2 20:49, 9 November 2007 (UTC)captcrisis
- Thanks; I added a link to 8 (New York City Subway service). --NE2 00:35, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
