75th Anniversary of the IRT Dyre Avenue Line

[Lance]

On this date, 75 years ago, New York City Transit began operating trains between E 180th Street and Dyre Avenue on the tracks of the former New York, Westchester and Boston Railway. The city recaptured this section of the NYW&B after the railroad shut down operations in late 1937. The rest of the railroad would either be torn down in Westchester County or largely abandoned in the Bronx.

 

At the start of service on what became the Dyre Ave line, trains ran between Dyre Av and E 180 Street at all times except late nights. Said service was originally operated by IND crews as opposed to IRT crews despite no connection to any IND-built lines. As the years went on, service would eventually shift over to the IRT crews and would run at all hours. Service would continue to operate as a shuttle (and be given the official designation of #9 in 1948) until May of 1957 when the flying junction to the White Plains Road line would be put to use. From that point, #2 trains would serve the line at all times except late nights, where it would continue to operate as a shuttle, much as it does today. It would not be until April of 1965 where the service we have today went into effect. #5 Lexington Ave trains would run between Dyre Av and Manhattan while the #2 trains would shift over to the northern half of the White Plains Rd line, permanently terminating at 241 Street.

 

Below is a picture of a car used on the first day of service.

Manhattan Elevated Car 1584

Date Taken: 1941.05.15

Collection: Joe Testagrose

[TransitJusticeForAll]

Wow! Happy Annerversary to the IRT Dyre Avenue Line

[Javier]

Are there any remains of the NY&B railway?

[Union Tpke]

Are there any remains of the NY&B railway?

 

the Dyre Avenue Line.

Have you even bothered to look?

http://www.nywb.net

Explore. Why don't you get any books? I have three on the NYWB.

[Javier]

Yea I did. The only thing that came up was the New York Washington Bridge.

[bstar1]

At E 180 St on adjacent there's abandoned station from railway.

[TheNewYorkElevated]

Happy 75th to the Dyre Avenue line!

 

Sad that the stations along it today are in disrepair. I hope they get renovated soon.

 

 

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[MysteriousBtrain]

Are there any remains of the NY&B railway?

Not only could you Google it like Union said (and I searched up the NY&B railway the way you typed it on this post just now, at least one result not including this thread showed a story of the line) if you would of read THE VERY FIRST POST OF THE THREAD:

 

On this date, 75 years ago, New York City Transit began operating trains between E 180th Street and Dyre Avenue on the tracks of the former New York, Westchester and Boston Railway. The city recaptured this section of the NYW&B after the railroad shut down operations in late 1937. The rest of the railroad would either be torn down in Westchester County or largely abandoned in the Bronx.

If you want to know what the "abandoned" sections are, there was an abandoned platform at E 180 St and a station house next to the Whitlock Av .

[Q23 via 108]

Lets clap it up for the .​

And as soon as I said that all of Lexington is jacked up.

[CenSin]

Not only could you Google it like Union said (and I searched up the NY&B railway the way you typed it on this post just now, at least one result not including this thread showed a story of the line) if you would of read THE VERY FIRST POST OF THE THREAD:

In my experience, a programmer’s job involves intensive Googling and a knack for finding or developing answers on one’s own before embarrassingly resorting to a call for help.