The 151st 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
Manhattan
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,
New York City
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. It had 2 levels. The lower level 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 station 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. The next stop to the north was
155th Street. The next stop to the south was
145th Street. The station opened on November 15, 1917 and closed on June 11, 1940.
References
External links
NYCsubway.org - The IRT Ninth Avenue Elevated Line-Polo Grounds Shuttle
IRT Ninth Avenue Line stations
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1917
Railway stations closed in 1940
Former elevated and subway stations in Manhattan
1917 establishments in New York City
1940 disestablishments in New York (state)
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