“IND Culver Line”

F

G

(from north to south:)

JAY STREET – METROTECH

BERGEN STREET

CARROLL STREET

SMITH-NINTH STREETS

FOURTH AVENUE

SEVENTH AVENUE

15TH STREET = PROSPECT PARK

FORT HAMILTON PARKWAY

CHURCH AVENUE

NINTH AVENUE

FORT HAMILTON PARKWAY

13TH AVENUE

DITMAS AVENUE

18TH AVENUE

AVENUE I

BAY PARKWAY

AVENUE N

AVENUE P

KINGS HIGHWAY

AVENUE U

NEPTUNE AVENUE

WEST 8TH STREET – NEW YORK AQUARIUM

CONEY ISLAND – STILLWELL AVENUE

(the IND Culver Line is a rapid transit line of the ‘B Division’ of the ‘New York City Subway’, extending from ‘Downtown Brooklyn’ south to ‘Coney Island’, ‘Brooklyn’, ‘New York City’, ‘United States’)

(the line is named after ‘Andrew Culver’, who built the original ‘Culver Line’ that preceded the current subway line)

(the local tracks of the ‘Culver Line’ are served by the F service, as well as the G between ‘Bergen Street’ and ‘Church Avenue’)

(the express tracks north of ‘Church Avenue’ have not been regularly used since 1976, while the peak-direction express track between ‘Ditmas Avenue’ and ‘Avenue X’ has not seen regular service since 1987)

(the line starts at an interlocking north of ‘Jay Street–MetroTech’, where ‘Culver Line ‘trains can access the ‘IND Sixth Avenue Line’ or ‘IND Eighth Avenue Line’, south to ‘Church Avenue’ in ‘Kensington’, the line is mostly a four-track subway, though it rises to cross over the ‘Gowanus Canal’ on the only above-ground structure on the original ‘Independent Subway System’)

(in ‘Kensington’, a ramp allows the line to rise onto a three-track elevated structure built by the City for operation by the ‘Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company’ as part of the ‘Dual Contracts’)

(when this ramp was opened in 1954, the older route from ‘Kensington’ northwest to ‘Sunset Park’ remained as the ‘Culver Shuttle’ until it was closed in 1975)

(the final portion of the line in ‘Coney Island’ is on the lower level of a double-decked elevated structure, with the ‘BMT Brighton Line’ above)

(the elevated part of the ‘Culver Line’, operated as part of the ‘BMT division’ until 1954, now carries only the F, a former ‘IND’ service, and is ‘chained’ and ‘signaled’ as part of the IND)

(however, ‘BMT’ radio frequency ‘B1’ is used on the elevated portion of the line south of ‘Church Avenue’)

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