125th Street (IRT Lexington Avenue Line)

Infobox NYCS
name = 125th Street


accessible = yes
bg_color = #007527
line = IRT Lexington Avenue Line
service = Lexington
platforms = 2 island platforms (1 on each of 2 levels)
tracks = 4 (2 on each of 2 levels)
passengers=7.768 million
pass_year=2006
pass_percent=3
borough = Manhattan
locale = East Harlem
connection = Metro-North Railroad at Harlem–125th Street access icon
connection_2 = M60 bus to LaGuardia Airport
open_date = July 17, 1918
north_custom_station =NYCS next|type=Jerome local|station=138th Street–Grand Concourse|line=IRT Jerome Avenue Line|service=Jerome south local
north_custom_station_2 = NYCS next|type=Jerome express|station=149th Street–Grand Concourse|line=IRT Jerome Avenue Line|service=Jerome south express
north_custom_station_3 = NYCS next|type=Pelham|station=Third Avenue–138th Street|line=IRT Pelham Line|service=Pelham
south_line = IRT Lexington Avenue Line
south_local_station = 116th Street
south_local_service = Lexington local
south_express_station = 86th Street
south_express_service = Lexington express

125th Street is the northernmost Manhattan station on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at Lexington Avenue and East 125th Street (also known as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard) in Harlem, it is served by the NYCS|4 and NYCS|6 trains (all times), and the NYCS|5 train (all times except late nights). The station lies one block east of Harlem–125th Street on the Metro-North Railroad. The planned northern terminal for the Second Avenue Line would be built below and at right angles to this station, along 125th Street.

The station is unique in design. It is a bi-level station, with an island platform on each level, but is not configured in the standard express-local lower-upper configuration (which is used in most stations south of this point). Instead, the upper platform serves northbound (uptown) trains and the lower level serves southbound (downtown) trains. North of the station, just after crossing the Harlem River, the line splits into the IRT Jerome Avenue Line (heading north) and the IRT Pelham Line (heading east). On the lower platform, each track comes from one line, and a flying junction south of the station allows trains to choose the local or express track. On the upper platform, the west track comes from the local track, and the east track comes from the express track; a flying junction north of the station splits the lines.

There is an active tower at the north end of the upper platform; it is a satellite to the tower at 42nd Street–Grand Central, which controls the entire length of the Lexington Avenue Line. This station's renovation was completed in 2005.

Bus connections

*M35
*M60 To: LGA
*M98
*M100
*M101
*M103
*Bx15

Gallery

External links

*NYCS ref|http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?5:3113|IRT East Side Line|125th Street
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/4train.htm 4 Train]
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/5train.htm 5 Train]
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/6train.htm 6 Train]