New York City Subway lettered services

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New York City Subway lettered services are the group of rapid transit routes identified by letters that primarily run on the system’s B Division lines across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
New York City Subway lettered services canonical 2

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Statements (52)

Predicate Object
instanceOf public transport service
rapid transit service group
country United States
excludesService 1
2
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S
fareControl free transfers between lettered services
fareMedium MetroCard
OMNY
fareSystem Metropolitan Transportation Authority fare system
gauge standard gauge
hasService A
B
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D
E
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historicalOrigin BMT Division
IND Division
includesCBTCSegments Yes
mergedInto unified B Division after 1940s unification
operatedBy Metropolitan Transportation Authority
New York City Transit Authority
partOf New York City Subway
primaryLocale New York City
servesBorough Brooklyn
Manhattan
Queens
The Bronx
signalSystem wayside block signals
trackConfiguration mostly quadruple-track trunk lines in Manhattan
typicalCarLength 60-foot cars
75-foot cars
usesDivision B Division
usesLetterDesignation Latin alphabet capital letters
usesPowerSupply 600 V DC third rail
usesRollingStock B Division rolling stock
usesTrainWidth 10-foot-wide cars

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

M (New York City Subway service) partOf New York City Subway lettered services
subject linked to: M
MTA New York City Transit Subdivision B operator New York City Subway lettered services