Baychester Avenue (IRT Dyre Avenue Line)

Infobox NYCS
name = Baychester Avenue

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bg_color = #007527
line = IRT Dyre Avenue Line
service = Dyre
platforms = 2 side platforms
tracks = 3
borough = Bronx
open_date = May 15, 1941
north_station = Eastchester–Dyre Avenue
north_line = IRT Dyre Avenue Line
north_service = Dyre
south_station = Gun Hill Road
south_line = IRT Dyre Avenue Line
south_service = Dyre

Baychester Avenue is a station on the IRT Dyre Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Baychester and Tillotson Avenues in the Bronx.

Originally opened on May 29, 1912 as a local station of the New York, Westchester and Boston Railway, it was closed on December 12, 1937 when the NYW&B went bankrupt. In 1940 the City of New York purchased the right of way from the Bronx line southward. In 1941 a shuttle service was implemented between Dyre Avenue and East 180th Street using IRT gate cars. In 1957 a physical connection was made to the White Plains Road line and through service provided.

The station has two side platforms and three tracks with space for a fourth. It is on an elevated embankment with a cut in the embankment for the street to run below (Baychester Avenue). The entrance is below the station.

Bus connections

NYC Route
*Bx30"'Bee-Line Routes
*Bee Line #60
*Bee Line #61
*Bee Line #62
*Bee Line #90

External links

*NYCS ref|http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?199:628|IRT White Plains Road Line|Baychester Avenue
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/5train.htm 5 Train]