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[PHOTOS] The ERA Farewell To The Franklin Shuttle Tour (October 17, 1981)

Posted by Bill Newkirk on Thu Jun 1 19:25:32 2023

It was announced that the Franklin Ave shuttle would close for good prompting the NY Div E.R.A. to hold a walking and riding tour before the line's reported demise.
Of course, public outcry killed the lines closure and instead was totally rebuilt as seen today.
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Botanic Gardens as we all remember it, wooden platform and incandescent lighting.
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Park Place station looking north towards Franklin Ave.
In the last years before reconstruction, this part of the platform was closed to passengers due to deteriorating wooden planks.
On the second red building on the right, you can just make out "57 Varieties" synonymous with Heinz ketchup.
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Further down that same platform by the fare controls, the two tracks and island platform was replaced by a single concrete platform.
The line presently is single track to Franklin Ave.
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The station as seen from Park Place below.
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This is only entrance and exit to the Dean St station. Dean St. was eliminated during the lines reconstruction.
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Dean St station as seen from the street below.
Imagine a train of gate cars being piloted by motorman Edward Luciano (Lewis ?) on that fateful night of November 1, 1918 that made history.
Dean St. was the only station in the system with the lowest amount of fare paying customers as I once heard.
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A shuttle having departed from Franklin Ave. makes its first stop at Dean St
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Although not official, this would be the very first (Z) train according to Steve Zable who was the motorman for that day.
Steve did a bit of roll sign surgery to come up with this anomaly.
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And that brings us to the last stop on the shuttle, Franklin Ave. Here's a scan of the familiar Globe ticket transfers that were issued by the ticket machines.
Passengers would line up and press the plunger and one ticket would drop and a bell would ring. Tickets were dropped into a box in the subway station downstairs.
Abuses with passengers getting more tickets than they needed and selling them on the street lead to the station agents issuing Metrocard transfers.
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I don't know for sure if this was a portion of the original platform or an access to the pedestrian overpass that was removed years ago.
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That staircase and building date back to the Fulton St el days.
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And for the final image, the structure at Fulton St & Franklin Ave. showing the steel-work
that supported Brighton Franklin trains including the one involved in the Malbone St. Wreck.
Thanks for viewing.
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