Talk:BMT Brighton Line

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Former stations[edit]

Stations when it was a steam line included the following:

Bedford
Bergen Street
Butler Street (Sterling Place)
Prospect Park at Malbone Street (Empire Boulevard)
Flatbush at current Parkside Avenue
Church Avenue, Church Lane, or Church Street
Prospect Park South at Beverley Road
Avenue C (Cortelyou Road)
Parkville or South Midwood at Newkirk Avenue
Fiske Terrace at Avenue H
South Greenfield at Elm Avenue
Kings Highway
Avenue U or Homecrest
Gravesend at [Gravesend] Neck Road
Sheepshead Bay at Shore Road, which is now called Sheepshead Bay Road
Brighton Beach terminal at Coney Island Avenue south of Brighton Beach Avenue

Note: These stations did not all exist from the beginning.

Service history[edit]

1a

1920-: local, Stillwell-57th via tunnel (all times but weekday and Saturday evenings; by 1931 to Queensboro Plaza in rush hours and middays)

1b

1920-: local, Stillwell-57th via bridge (weekday and Saturday evenings; also Sundays by mid-1930s)

1c

1920-: express, Brighton Beach-42nd via bridge (weekday and Saturday rush hours and Saturday afternoons; later also middays)

1d

Prospect Park (later Kings Highway)-Queensboro Plaza via tunnel (weekday middays); eliminated by 1931

The above is incomplete. --NE2 03:09, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Local

1920-by 1931: Prospect Park (later Kings Highway)-tunnel Broadway (weekday middays)

1920-1967: QT Stillwell-tunnel Broadway (weekdays; earlier also Saturdays, and even earlier Sundays)
1967-1973: QJ Stillwell-tunnel Nassau (weekdays) (to Brighton Beach until 1968)
1973-1986: M Stillwell-tunnel Nassau (weekdays)
1967-1986: QB → Q Stillwell-bridge Broadway (rush hours in peak direction) (to Brighton Beach until 1968)

1920-1967: QB Stillwell-bridge Broadway (weekday off times and weekends; sometimes to Franklin Saturdays; originally evening theater service)
1967-1986: D Stillwell-bridge Sixth (weekday off times and weekends)

1986-1988: D Stillwell-bridge Broadway (all times; weekday skip-stop)
1988-2001: D Stillwell-bridge Sixth (all times)
2001-present: Q Stillwell-bridge Broadway (all times)

Express

1920-1967: Q Brighton Beach-bridge Broadway (weekdays; sometimes local during middays?; originally rush hours only)
1967-1968: D Stillwell-bridge Sixth (weekdays)
1968-1986: D Brighton Beach-bridge Sixth (weekdays)
1986-1988: Q Brighton Beach-bridge Broadway (weekdays; skip-stop)
1988-2001: Q Brighton Beach-bridge Sixth (weekdays)
2001-2004: <Q> Brighton Beach-bridge Broadway (weekdays)
2004-present: B Brighton Beach-bridge Sixth (weekdays)

2009 reconstruction[edit]

There should be a note about the 2009 station reconstructions. I would add it, but I have other tasks to complete. Tinlinkin (talk) 07:06, 18 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

July 2, 1878, or August 7, 1876?[edit]

The article indicates that the Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island Railway was established on July 2, 1878. Are you sure it's not August 7, 1876, as per the discussion here? ---------User:DanTD (talk) 05:25, 7 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]