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Bronx Park Terminal was a terminal station on the demolished IRT Third Avenue Line in the Bedford Park neighborhood of the Bronx in New York City.The station was located adjacent to Bronx Park and the New York Botanical Garden at 198th Street between Webster Avenue and Southern Boulevard, in the approximate location of the modern Fordham Preparatory School.
The IRT Third Avenue Line, commonly known as the Third Avenue Elevated, Third Avenue El, or Bronx El, was an elevated railway in Manhattan and the Bronx, New York City. Originally operated by the New York Elevated Railway, an independent railway company, it was acquired by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) and eventually became part ...
Botanical Gardens station was south of a derailment on February 16, 1907 that resulted in 20 deaths and 150 injuries. This was one day after New York Central Railroad electrified the Harlem Line in reaction to being chastised in the press after the Park Avenue Tunnel accident of 1902. [ 6 ]
IRT Third Avenue Line, commonly known as the Third Avenue El and the Bronx El, a former elevated railway in Manhattan and the Bronx, New York City; ended in Manhattan in 1955 and in the Bronx in 1973; Third Avenue Elevated, the portion of Fifth Avenue Line (Brooklyn elevated) on Third Avenue, Brooklyn; closed in 1940
The 200th Street station was a local station on the demolished IRT Third Avenue Line in the Bronx, New York City, near the New York Botanical Garden. The station was opened on October 4, 1920, and had three tracks and two side platforms. It was also one block south of the Botanical Garden New York Central Railroad station.
An extension of the Third Avenue El to Fordham Square (now Fordham Plaza) was proposed in 1894. [3] The station opened on July 1, 1901, as part of a three station extension of the line north of Tremont Avenue–177th Street. [5] It was originally called Pelham Avenue, [9] the former name of Fordham Road and Pelham Parkway.
The Grand Central station was the terminal for some trains of the IRT Third Avenue Line, also known as the Third Avenue El, in Manhattan, New York City.This station originally had one island platform and two side platforms, all connected at the west end (later converted to three tracks and two island platforms).
Franklin Avenue/Botanic Garden: Botanic Garden: BMT Franklin Avenue Line S A transfer passageway between the IRT Eastern Parkway Line and BMT Franklin Avenue Line was added on October 18, 1999, when the Franklin Avenue Line was reopened. [55] It was formerly occupied and blocked by a Transit police station. [citation needed]