IRT Eastern Parkway Line

Infobox rail line
name = Eastern Parkway Line


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type = Rapid transit
system = New York City Subway
status = Operating
locale = Brooklyn
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stations = 11
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open =1 May 1908
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owner = City of New York
operator = New York City Transit Authority
character = Underground
stock = R62
R62A
R142
R142A
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notrack = 4
gauge = 1,435mm (4ft 8½ inches)
el = 600V DC third rail
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The Eastern Parkway Line is one of the lines of the IRT division of the New York City Subway, stretching from Downtown Brooklyn south along Flatbush Avenue and east along Eastern Parkway (Brooklyn) to Crown Heights. After passing Crown Heights–Utica Avenue, the line rises onto an elevated structure and becomes the New Lots Line to the end at New Lots Avenue in New Lots, Brooklyn. The west end of the Eastern Parkway Line is at the Joralemon Street Tunnel under the East River. [Metropolitan Transportation Authority, [http://www.mta.info/mta/budget/final2006-09.htm 2006 Final Proposed Budget – November Financial Plan 2006-2009] , PDFlink| [http://www.mta.info/mta/budget/pdf/final0609/Section%206%20MTA%202006%20Final%20Proposed%20Budget.pdf Section VI: MTA Capital Program Information] |135 KiB : "Joralemon Tube to Nevins Street"] [Metropolitan Transportation Authority, [http://www.mta.info/mta/budget/2005adopted/index.html 2005 Adopted Budget - February Financial Plan 2005–2008] , PDFlink| [http://www.mta.info/mta/budget/2005adopted/Section%20VII.pdf Section VII: MTA Capital Program Information] |91.7 KiB : shows Utica Avenue on "EPK" and Sutter Avenue on "NLT"] [Metropolitan Transportation Authority, [http://www.mta.info/mta/budget/november2005.htm 2005 Final Proposed Budget - November Financial Plan 2005–2008] , PDFlink| [http://www.mta.info/mta/budget/pdf/nov2005/vol1/1-cap.pdf Section VI: MTA Capital Program Information] |1.02 MiB : "Sutter Avenue Portal to end"] [In a 1981 list of "most deteriorated subway stations", the MTA listed Borough Hall and Court Street stations as part of the New Lots Line:
New York Times, Agency Lists Its 69 Most Deteriorated Subway Stations, June 11, 1981, section B, page 5] [The chaining designation "M" (Joralemon Street Tunnel) becomes "E" (Eastern Parkway Line) just west of the Borough Hall platforms; the Court Street and northern Borough Hall stations are chained "K" (Clark Street Tunnel).] [However, as of 2007, emergency exit signs label Court Street as an IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line station, and the two parts of Borough Hall are signed as being along the Broadway–Seventh Avenue and IRT Lexington Avenue Lines.]

The IRT Nostrand Avenue Line splits from the Eastern Parkway Line.

History

Extent and service

tation listing

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* Borough Hall is accessible in the northbound direction only

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