IRT Lexington Avenue Line Totally Explained

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	Station	Tracks	Opened	Transfers and notes
Begins as a merge of the IRT Jerome Avenue Line and IRT Pelham Line
	125th Street	all	July 17, 1918	Metro-North Railroad at Harlem–125th Street
	116th Street	local	July 17, 1918
	110th Street	local	July 17, 1918
	103rd Street	local	July 17, 1918
	96th Street	local	July 17, 1918
	86th Street	all	July 17, 1918
	77th Street	local	July 17, 1918
	68th Street–Hunter College	local	July 17, 1918
	59th Street	all	July 17, 1918 (1962, express)	(BMT Broadway Line at Lexington Avenue) MetroCard-only transfer to (IND 63rd Street Line at Lexington Avenue–63rd Street) Roosevelt Island Tramway This station was originally a local station. The lower level for express trains was opened in 1962.
	51st Street	local	July 17, 1918	(IND Queens Boulevard Line at Lexington Avenue–53rd Street)
	Grand Central–42nd Street	all	July 17, 1918	(IRT Flushing Line) (42nd Street Shuttle) Metro-North Railroad at Grand Central Terminal
merge on southbound local track IRT 42nd Street Shuttle (no revenue trains)
	33rd Street	local	October 27, 1904
	28th Street	local	October 27, 1904
	23rd Street	local	October 27, 1904
	18th Street		October 27, 1904	closed November 7, 1948
	14th Street–Union Square	all	October 27, 1904	(BMT Canarsie Line) (BMT Broadway Line) originally 14th Street
	Astor Place	local	October 27, 1904
	Bleecker Street	local	October 27, 1904	(Sixth Avenue Line at Broadway–Lafayette Street; transfer from downtown platform only)
	Spring Street	local	October 27, 1904
	Canal Street	local	October 27, 1904	(BMT Broadway main line) (Manhattan Bridge) (BMT Nassau Street Line)
	Worth Street		October 27, 1904	closed September 1, 1962
	Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall	all	October 27, 1904	(BMT Nassau Street Line) originally Brooklyn Bridge, then Brooklyn Bridge–Worth Street

local tracks split from express tracks; local train short turn
	City Hall		October 27, 1904	Closed December 31, 1945. Lexington Avenue Line local trains stopped at station from 1904 to 1945 except late nights, when trains continued to South Ferry.

express trains continue
	Fulton Street	express	January 16, 1905	(IND Eighth Avenue Line) (BMT Nassau Street Line) (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line)
	Wall Street	express	June 12, 1905
	Bowling Green	express	July 10, 1905
IRT Eastern Parkway Line splits into Brooklyn via the Joralemon Street Tunnel

express train short turn
	South Ferry		July 10, 1905	Inner platform closed February 12, 1977; currently used for express train short turn with no station stop. Lexington Avenue Line trains used the outer platform from July 10, 1905 to July 1, 1918 and from 1950 to February 12, 1977.

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