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Ind Eighth Avenue Line | idth=70| | width=70| | | olspan=3| Services that use the IND Eighth Avenue Line through midtown and downtown have been colored blue since 1979. The original IND lettering system provided for , and on the line. | Extent and service Services that use the Eighth Avenue Line through Midtown and Downtown Manhattan are colored blue. The following services use part or all of the Eighth Avenue Line: | ervice | section of line | | |express (local late nights) |full line | | |local (morning rush hour through early evening) |145th Street to 59th Street | | |local (no service late nights) |south of 168th Street | | |express |145th Street to 59th Street | | |local |50th Street to World Trade Center | | racks | services | | orth of 168th Street | all | always | | owspan=2|168th Street to 145th Street | local | late nights, all but late nights | | xpress | all but late nights | | owspan=2|145th Street to 59th Street | local | late nights, morning rush hour through early evening, all but late nights | | xpress | all but late nights, always | | owspan=2|59th Street to 50th Street | local | late nights, all but late nights | | xpress | all but late nights | | owspan=2|50th Street to Canal Street | local | late nights, all but late nights, always | | xpress | all but late nights | | owspan=2|Canal Street to Chambers Street-Hudson Terminal | local | always | | xpress | always, all but late nights | | outh of Chambers Street-Hudson Terminal | all | always, all but late nights | The Eighth Avenue Line, entirely in Manhattan, begins at the terminal station of Inwood-207th Street as a two-track subway. Two tracks from the 207th Street Yard join at a flying junction, and there are four tracks through Dyckman Street before the extra tracks end. Two local tracks begin at 174th Street Yard, north of Washington Heights-168th Street. They come in between the existing tracks, running through the center of Washington Heights-168th Street before moving to the outside. At that point, A service stays on the express tracks, and C service begins on the local tracks. At 145th Street station, the Concourse Line () joins, with a flying junction just to the south to connect the tracks. Except during rush hours, B service begins at 145th Street; D trains switch there to the express tracks. Between the 59th Street-Columbus Circle and 50th Street stations, a flying junction connects both express and local tracks from the north to the beginning of the Sixth Avenue Line () under 53rd Street, and another flying junction south of 50th Street connects the tracks from the south to the Queens Boulevard Line, also under 53rd Street (). South of these junctions, the line continues down Eighth Avenue to 14th Street, where it turns southeast under Greenwich Avenue to connect again with the Sixth Avenue Line () in an eight track, two level station called West Fourth Street-Washington Square. At this point, local tracks of both lines interconnect south of the station in another elaborate flying junction which allows local trains of either line to continue south on either the Eighth Avenue Line to Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn or on the Sixth Avenue Line to the Lower East Side and Brooklyn. At the current time, no services transfer. The line then continues south under Sixth Avenue (which was built as part of the subway project) and Church Street. North of Chambers Street, the local tracks form a separate but parallel line to stub-end at World Trade Center station just east of the express tracks. These tracks are now the terminal for the E train; the C train switches to the express tracks at Canal Street. The express tracks continue south and east under Fulton Street to Broadway-Nassau Street station, where the Eighth Avenue Line formally ends to become the Cranberry Street Tunnel ( to Brooklyn). January 23, 2005 fire Around 2:00 pm on January 23, 2005, a fire destroyed the interlocking plant at Chambers Street. This caused restriction of A service and complete suspension of C service (which serves as a local variant of A service). Specifically, about one-third of the normal number of A trains ran. Some newspaper articles have blamed the fire on a homeless person trying to keep warm, but that has not been confirmed. The C in Brooklyn (east of Jay Street-Borough Hall) was replaced by an extension of V service on weekdays. Note that the Eighth Avenue Line platforms at 50th Street are only served by the C, and were thus closed; the only uptown service to 50th Street was via the Queens Boulevard Line's connection (E service) into the lower level of the station. Additionally, the A, which had formerly used the express tracks on the Eighth Avenue Line south of 168th Street-Washington Heights (where the C ended), switched to local at 145th Street, serving the two local stations that were only served by the C (155th Street and 163rd Street-Amsterdam Avenue). The A also used the local tracks in Brooklyn, serving all stations. Direct rush-hour A trips to Rockaway Park-Beach 116th Street were suspended in favor of the always-running S (connecting Rockaway Park Shuttle). Before the fire, from 9 PM to midnight on weekday nights, the C was the only service on the local tracks north of 59th Street-Columbus Circle; the D was switched to local to cover this. The A was switched to local service on weekends to pick up the slack. During rush hour, extra B trains were added, starting on or before January 28. Until the morning of January 28, the MTA moved the A to the parallel Sixth Avenue Line, Rutgers Street Tunnel and Culver Line (commonly known as the F route) from West Fourth Street-Washington Square to Jay Street-Borough Hall between 10 PM and 5 AM, in order to perform critical repairs. The last suspended service, rush-hour trips to Rockaway Park-Beach 116th Street, was restored on February 14, 2005; until then those trips required a transfer to the Rockaway Park Shuttle. Initial estimates gave a time of three to five years to restore full service, due to the rareness of the destroyed equipment. That was later cut back to six to nine months to bring back normal operations. However, C service and 70% of A service was restored at 05:00 on February 2, 2005, only ten days after the fire. Background The Eighth Avenue Line, and the remainder of the IND system were built by the City of New York partly to provide modern rapid transit facilities and partly to compete with the private companies, the BMT and IRT. A subway under Eighth Avenue was an early goal of transit planners in the city. The BMT, in particular, hoped to operate the Eighth Avenue Line as an extension of its Broadway Line, operating under Central Park West (Eighth Avenue) to the upper reaches of Manhattan. For this purpose, the express tracks north of the BMT's 57th Street station were continued north and stub-ended in anticipation of the service. These tracks have since been connected to the BMT 63rd Street Line to Queens, with future connections to the planned Second Avenue Line to the Upper East Side of Manhattan and Harlem. The whole line north of Chambers Street opened at midnight on the morning of September 10, 1932; the short bit under Fulton Street, connecting to the Cranberry Street Tunnel, opened on February 1, 1933. The express tracks were always served by the A service. AA service ran local, and was renamed to K in 1987 and C in 1989. Chaining information The Eighth Avenue Line is chained IND A. This chaining then continues through the Cranberry Street Tunnel to the IND Fulton Street Line, running to Euclid Avenue. The south end of West Fourth Street-Washington Square is defined as chaining point 969+25, and numbers increase to the north and decrease to the south. Station listing | racks | Services | Opened | Transfers and notes | | a href="/encyclopedia/Inwood-207th-Street-(IND-Eighth-Avenue-Line-station)" title="Inwood-207th Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line station)">Inwood-207th Street | local | always | September 10, 1932 | | a href="/encyclopedia/Dyckman-Street-(IND-Eighth-Avenue-Line-station)" title="Dyckman Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line station)">Dyckman Street | local | always | September 10, 1932 | | a href="/encyclopedia/190th-Street-(IND-Eighth-Avenue-Line-station)" title="190th Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line station)">190th Street | local | always | September 10, 1932 | | a href="/encyclopedia/181st-Street-(IND-Eighth-Avenue-Line-station)" title="181st Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line station)">181st Street | local | always | September 10, 1932 | | a href="/encyclopedia/175th-Street-George-Washington-Bridge-Bus-Terminal-(IND-Eighth-Avenue-Line-station)" title="175th Street-George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal (IND Eighth Avenue Line station)">175th Street-George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal | local | always | September 10, 1932 | George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal | | a href="/encyclopedia/Washington-Heights-168th-Street-(IND-Eighth-Avenue-Line-station)" title="Washington Heights-168th Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line station)">Washington Heights-168th Street | all | always, all but late nights | September 10, 1932 | | a href="/encyclopedia/163rd-Street-Amsterdam-Avenue-(IND-Eighth-Avenue-Line-station)" title="163rd Street-Amsterdam Avenue (IND Eighth Avenue Line station)">163rd Street-Amsterdam Avenue | local | late nights, all but late nights | September 10, 1932 | | a href="/encyclopedia/155th-Street-(IND-Eighth-Avenue-Line-station)" title="155th Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line station)">155th Street | local | late nights, all but late nights | September 10, 1932 | | a href="/encyclopedia/145th-Street-(IND-Eighth-Avenue-Line-station)" title="145th Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line station)">145th Street | all | always, all but late nights | September 10, 1932 | (IND Concourse Line) | | olspan=5|IND Concourse Line ( morning rush hour through early evening, always) joins | | a href="/encyclopedia/135th-Street-(IND-Eighth-Avenue-Line-station)" title="135th Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line station)">135th Street | local | late nights, morning rush hour through early evening, all but late nights | September 10, 1932 | | a href="/encyclopedia/125th-Street-(IND-Eighth-Avenue-Line-station)" title="125th Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line station)">125th Street | all | always, morning rush hour through early evening, all but late nights, always | September 10, 1932 | | a href="/encyclopedia/116th-Street-(IND-Eighth-Avenue-Line-station)" title="116th Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line station)">116th Street | local | late nights, morning rush hour through early evening, all but late nights | September 10, 1932 | | a href="/encyclopedia/110th-Street-Cathedral-Parkway-(IND-Eighth-Avenue-Line-station)" title="110th Street-Cathedral Parkway (IND Eighth Avenue Line station)">110th Street-Cathedral Parkway | local | late nights, morning rush hour through early evening, all but late nights | September 10, 1932 | | a href="/encyclopedia/103rd-Street-(IND-Eighth-Avenue-Line-station)" title="103rd Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line station)">103rd Street | local | late nights, morning rush hour through early evening, all but late nights | September 10, 1932 | | a href="/encyclopedia/96th-Street-(IND-Eighth-Avenue-Line-station)" title="96th Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line station)">96th Street | local | late nights, morning rush hour through early evening, all but late nights | September 10, 1932 | | a href="/encyclopedia/86th-Street-(IND-Eighth-Avenue-Line-station)" title="86th Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line station)">86th Street | local | late nights, morning rush hour through early evening, all but late nights | September 10, 1932 | | a href="/encyclopedia/81st-Street-Museum-of-Natural-History-(IND-Eighth-Avenue-Line-station)" title="81st Street-Museum of Natural History (IND Eighth Avenue Line station)">81st Street-Museum of Natural History | local | late nights, morning rush hour through early evening, all but late nights | September 10, 1932 | | a href="/encyclopedia/72nd-Street-(IND-Eighth-Avenue-Line-station)" title="72nd Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line station)">72nd Street | local | late nights, morning rush hour through early evening, all but late nights | September 10, 1932 | | a href="/encyclopedia/59th-Street-Columbus-Circle-(IND-Eighth-Avenue-Line-station)" title="59th Street-Columbus Circle (IND Eighth Avenue Line station)">59th Street-Columbus Circle | all | always, morning rush hour through early evening, all but late nights, always | September 10, 1932 | (IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line) | | olspan=5|IND Sixth Avenue Line ( morning rush hours through early evening, always) splits | | a href="/encyclopedia/50th-Street-(IND-Eighth-Avenue-Line-station)" title="50th Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line station)">50th Street | local | late nights, all but late nights | September 10, 1932 | (IND Queens Boulevard Line) | | olspan=5|Queens Boulevard Line ( always) joins | | a href="/encyclopedia/42nd-Street-Port-Authority-Bus-Terminal-(IND-Eighth-Avenue-Line-station)" title="42nd Street-Port Authority Bus Terminal (IND Eighth Avenue Line station)">42nd Street-Port Authority Bus Terminal | all | always, all but late nights, always | September 10, 1932 | (IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line)
(IRT Flushing Line)
(BMT Broadway Line)
(IRT 42nd Street Shuttle) | | a href="/encyclopedia/34th-Street-Penn-Station-(IND-Eighth-Avenue-Line-station)" title="34th Street-Penn Station (IND Eighth Avenue Line station)">34th Street-Penn Station | all | always, all but late nights, always | September 10, 1932 | transfer to Amtrak, Long Island Rail Road and New Jersey Transit at New York Penn Station | | a href="/encyclopedia/23rd-Street-(IND-Eighth-Avenue-Line-station)" title="23rd Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line station)">23rd Street | local | late nights, all but late nights, always | September 10, 1932 | | a href="/encyclopedia/14th-Street-(IND-Eighth-Avenue-Line-station)" title="14th Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line station)">14th Street | all | always, all but late nights, always | September 10, 1932 | (BMT Canarsie Line) | | a href="/encyclopedia/West-Fourth-Street-Washington-Square-(IND-Eighth-Avenue-Line-station)" title="West Fourth Street-Washington Square (IND Eighth Avenue Line station)">West Fourth Street-Washington Square | all | always, all but late nights, always | September 10, 1932 | (IND Sixth Avenue Line) | | olspan=5|local transfer tracks to/from IND Sixth Avenue Line (no services switch) | | a href="/encyclopedia/Spring-Street-(IND-Eighth-Avenue-Line-station)" title="Spring Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line station)">Spring Street | local | late nights, all but late nights, always | September 10, 1932 | | a href="/encyclopedia/Canal-Street-(IND-Eighth-Avenue-Line-station)" title="Canal Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line station)">Canal Street | all | always, all but late nights, always | September 10, 1932 | originally Canal Street-Holland Tunnel | | a href="/encyclopedia/Chambers-Street-(IND-Eighth-Avenue-Line-station)" title="Chambers Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line station)">Chambers Street | express | always, all but late nights | September 10, 1932 | rowspan=2|two parts of the same station
local tracks end
(IRT Brooklyn Branch)
transfer to
originally Chambers Street-Hudson Terminal | | a href="/encyclopedia/World-Trade-Center-(IND-Eighth-Avenue-Line-station)" title="World Trade Center (IND Eighth Avenue Line station)">World Trade Center | local | always | September 10, 1932 | | a href="/encyclopedia/Broadway-Nassau-Street-(IND-Eighth-Avenue-Line-station)" title="Broadway-Nassau Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line station)">Broadway-Nassau Street | express | always, all but late nights | February 1, 1933 | (IRT Brooklyn Branch)
(IRT Lexington Avenue Line)
(BMT Nassau Street Line) | | olspan=5|continues through the Cranberry Street Tunnel to the IND Fulton Street Line ( always, all but late nights) | References External links 08
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