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Re: PRESS RELEASE Re: It's Offal? W train returning |
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Posted by randyo on Sat Feb 20 16:33:24 2016, in response to Re: PRESS RELEASE Re: It's Offal? W train returning, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sat Feb 20 12:23:46 2016. Correct. Not only that but unlike the IND which tied the branch line route letter to its manhattan trunk line (with the exception of the GG and HH) BMT numbers were not similarly linked. The Southern Div branch lines carried the same numbers regardless of whether the trains operated via the Bway Subway or the Nassau St Line. Unfortunately, when the TA decided to assign IND style letters to the BMT it linked most of the branch lines with the Bway Subway with the exception of the TT West End lcl which was either a Nassau St route or a Stl to 36 St shuttle. The so called planners in the TA seemed to have forgotten the 4 Av and Brighton Nassau St Bankers’ Specials and in the case of the 4 Av neglected to include a single letter R for a 4 Av Express. The planners even stupidly went so far as to eliminate the branch line names from the R-32s and 38s on the grounds that since Neither the IRT nor the IND had the branch lines on their signs but only the Manhattan trunk line why should the BMT have something the other divisions din’t have. Of course they totally ignored the fact that unlike the other Divisions, the BMT was the only Division that had all its Southern Div trains going to a common terminal via different routes. IMNSHO, if the TA was going to use letters, it should have used only the branch line names and forgot about either the Bway or Nassau St designations. The Manhattan centric planners also removed the Eastern Div route names from the readings instead calling the routes by the Nassau St designations: J/JJ, KK and M the last one initially being erroneously used to describe both the Brighton and 4 Av Bankers’ Specials until it was eventually assigned to the line it was intended for in the first place, the Myrtle/Chambers (later Broad) service. |
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