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The Sheepshead Bay station is an express station on the BMT Brighton Line of the New York City Subway. It is located in the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of Brooklyn . It is served by the Q train at all times and by the B train on weekdays.
Cottage-style station houses are suspended over the line at local stations at Beverley and Cortelyou Roads, and at the express station at Newkirk Plaza. Past Newkirk Plaza the line continues in an open cut, then begins to rise to street level at the north end of Avenue H station. [23] Sheepshead Bay station, looking northward across the express ...
Buses made two trips in the morning rush to Brooklyn, and two trips in the evening rush from Brooklyn. The service ran express between Clove Road and Richmond Road and Adams Street and Fulton Street. The fare at the time was 30 cents. [101] [242] [243] First express bus route to link Staten Island with Downtown Brooklyn. [101] Renumbered the X8.
The system's 472 stations qualifies it to have the largest number of rapid transit stations in the world. Three rapid transit companies merged in 1940 to create the present New York City Subway system: the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), and the Independent Subway System (IND).
New York City Subway service to Sheepshead Bay is provided by the BMT Brighton Line (B and Q trains), with local stops at Avenue U and Neck Road, and express/local stops at the Kings Highway and Sheepshead Bay stations. New York City Bus routes in the area include the B3, B4, B36, B44, B44 SBS, B49 and B68 local buses and the BM3 express bus. [71]
The next stop to the west (railroad south) is Ocean Parkway for Q trains, while the next stop to the east (railroad north) is Sheepshead Bay for all service. [10] Between this station and Ocean Parkway, the line becomes six tracks. The local and express tracks split into an extra storage track in-between them in both directions.
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It is the only terminal station in the subway system at the end of a physical line that does not have an island platform, and it was built with two side platforms and two tracks to allow for a planned, but not carried out extension of the IRT Nostrand Avenue Line south towards Voorhies Avenue in Sheepshead Bay. [34]