IRT White Plains Road Line - Extent and Service

Extent and Service

The following services use part or all of the White Plains Road Line:

Route	Service	Section of line
2	Local	Full line
5	Local (express rush hours in peak direction, no service late nights)	East 180th Street to 149th Street – Grand Concourse
5	Local, rush hours in peak direction only	Nereid Avenue to East 180th Street

Section of line	Tracks	Services
Wakefield – 241st Street to Nereid Avenue	Local	2 always
Wakefield – 241st Street to Nereid Avenue	Express	no regular service
Nereid Avenue to East 180th Street	Local	2 always, 5 rush hours in peak direction
Nereid Avenue to East 180th Street	Express	no regular service
East 180th Street to 149th Street – Grand Concourse	Local	2 always, 5 all but late nights and rush hours in peak direction
East 180th Street to 149th Street – Grand Concourse	Express	5 rush hours in peak direction
South of 149th Street – Grand Concourse	All	2 always via 7th Avenue Line, 5 always, except late nights, via Lexington Avenue Line.

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Legend

Wakefield – 241st Street

239th Street Yard

Nereid Avenue

233rd Street

225th Street

219th Street

Former IRT Third Avenue Line

Gun Hill Road

Burke Avenue

Allerton Avenue

IRT Dyre Avenue Line

Pelham Parkway

Unionport Yard

Bronx Park East

East 180th Street Yard

East 180th Street Yard & Shops

East 180th Street

Remainder of IRT Dyre Avenue Line demolished

180th Street – Bronx Park (demolished)

West Farms Yard (demolished)

West Farms Square – East Tremont Avenue

174th Street

Freeman Street

Simpson Street

Intervale Avenue

Prospect Avenue

Jackson Avenue

Former IRT Third Avenue Line

Third Avenue – 149th Street

149th Street – Grand Concourse

IRT Jerome Avenue Line

149th Street Tunnel

IRT Lenox Avenue Line

The IRT White Plains Road Line begins at the Wakefield – 241st Street terminal, with two tracks, one island platform, and two closed side platforms. Crossovers just south of the station take trains to the correct tracks and a center express track comes out of those crossovers. Between Wakefield – 241st Street and Nereid Avenue, a connection comes in from the 239th Street Yard.

Just north of Gun Hill Road, the now demolished IRT Third Avenue Line split from the local tracks (with crossovers to the express tracks just to the north). The line went to a lower level of Gun Hill Road and then turned west.

The IRT Dyre Avenue Line merges to the local tracks just north of East 180th Street, and then crossovers allow those trains to reach the express tracks. The 5 late-night Dyre Avenue Shuttle uses the center track to end its run, and rush hour 5 trains in the peak direction change to the express track here. On the west side of this junction is the East 180th Street Yard while the Unionport Yard is to the east.

The now-gone three-track Bronx Park Spur merged from the west after East 180th Street with one track into each of the mainline tracks. Just after this on the east side was a connection to the West Farms Yard, also gone.

The express track ends north of Third Avenue – 149th Street, and from there to the end the line has two tracks. Formerly in that area there was a connection just to the north to the local tracks of the IRT Third Avenue Line, and a connection to the south, bypassing 149th Street on the Third Avenue Line. Just past those former connections, the White Plains Road Line goes underground.

Just after 149th Street – Grand Concourse, the tracks split off and the two currently used by the 5 train turn south to merge with the local tracks of the IRT Jerome Avenue Line. The other tracks, currently used by the 2 train, pass under the Harlem River via the 149th Street Tunnel and end at the at-grade 142nd Street Junction, connecting to the IRT Lenox Avenue Line.

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