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The 135th Street station was a local station on the demolished
IRT Ninth Avenue Line The IRT Ninth Avenue Line, often called the Ninth Avenue Elevated or Ninth Avenue El, was the first elevated railway in New York City. It opened on July 3, 1868 as the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway, as an experimental single-track cable ...
in
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,
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. It had two levels. The lower level was built first and had two tracks and two
side platform A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platforms ...
s and served local trains. The upper level was built as part of the
Dual Contracts The Dual Contracts, also known as the Dual Subway System, were contracts for the construction and/or rehabilitation and operation of rapid transit lines in the City of New York. The contracts were signed on March 19, 1913, by the Interborough Ra ...
and had one track that served express trains that bypassed this station. It opened on September 17, 1879 and closed on June 11, 1940. The next southbound stop was 130th Street. The next northbound stop was 140th Street.


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IRT Ninth Avenue Line stations Railway stations in the United States opened in 1879 Railway stations closed in 1940 Former elevated and subway stations in Manhattan Defunct New York City Subway stations located aboveground 1879 establishments in New York (state) 1940 disestablishments in New York (state) {{Manhattan-railstation-stub