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6 (BMT rapid transit service)

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The service advisory discontinuing 6 service
The service advisory discontinuing 6 service

6 was the BMT's designation for trains that used the BMT Fifth Avenue Line (labeled the Fifth Avenue–Bay Ridge Line).

When numbers were assigned in 1924, 6 was assigned to trains between Sands Street (on the Brooklyn side of the Brooklyn Bridge) and 65th Street, via the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line, BMT Third Avenue Line, and BMT Fifth Avenue Line.

Between 1931 and 1937, all service except rush hour and Saturday morning service was truncated to 36th Street, where transfer could be made to a Culver Line (5) train to downtown Brooklyn. On May 31, 1940, the Third Avenue and Fifth Avenue lines were closed, ending all 6 service. The 6 designation is now used for the IRT Lexington Avenue and Pelham local service.

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6 (New York City Subway service)

The 6 Lexington Avenue Local and <6> Pelham Bay Park Express are two rapid transit services in the A Division of the New York City Subway. Their route emblems, or "bullets", are colored forest green since they use the IRT Lexington Avenue Line in Manhattan. Local service is denoted by a (6) in a circular bullet, and express service is denoted by a <6> in a diamond-shaped bullet. On the R62A rolling stock, this is often indicated by LEDs around the service logo to indicate local or express service to riders. The LEDs illuminate in a green circle pattern for 6 local trains and in a red diamond pattern for <6> trains.

Source: "6 (BMT rapid transit service)", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2022, January 29th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6_(BMT_rapid_transit_service).

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Q (New York City Subway service)

Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation

Independent Subway System

L (New York City Subway service)

S (New York City Subway service)

New York City Subway nomenclature

R (New York City Subway service)

List of New York City Subway lines

Park Row Terminal

13 (BMT rapid transit service)

List of New York City Subway transfer stations

Culver Shuttle

Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center station

Fifth Avenue Line (Brooklyn elevated)
References
  • "Historical Maps". www.nycsubway.org.
  • "Maps and Drawings". BMT-Lines.
  • B.M.T. 'El' Lines to Shift Service; City to Close 2 Sections This Week, The New York Times May 27, 1940, page 19
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