155th Street station (IRT Ninth Avenue Line)
The 155th Street station is an express station on the IRT Ninth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located in Manhattan, New York City. It is served by the 12 train at all times and the <12> train on weekdays in the peak direction.
It served as the north terminal of the IRT Ninth Avenue Line from its opening until 1918 when it was extended to connect with the IRT Jerome Avenue Line.
History edit
When the Ninth Avenue El was extended to Harlem in 1879 it terminated at 155th Street as a matter of geographic necessity (the hills of Washington Heights and Highbridge would have made a northward expansion difficult) and demand (northern Manhattan and the Bronx were still sparsely populated). Development came to the area with the New York City and Northern Railroad (later known as the Putnam Division) building its terminal at 155th Street in 1881 and the Polo Grounds relocating to a site just west of the station in 1889. The line expanded into The Bronx on June 1, 1918, when the Putnam Bridge, which had been built in 1881 to carry the Putnam Division across the Harlem River, was leased by the IRT and connected to the 9th Avenue line, allowing it to join the IRT Jerome Avenue Line and add intermediate stops at Sedgwick Avenue and Anderson–Jerome Avenues.
In 1964, a year after the Polo Grounds was closed, the entire Ninth Avenue Line, including 155th Street, was renovated, with the third rail type being converted and the structure rebuilt to accommodate heavier subway trains.
Station layout edit
←  toward South Ferry (151st Street)
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| Island platform |
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| ← <12> toward South Ferry (151st Street local, 125th Street express) weekday termination track →
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| <12> toward Burnside Avenue weekdays (Sedgwick Avenue) → |
| Island platform |
| weekend and late nights toward Burnside Avenue (Sedgwick Avenue) →
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155th Street is an express station with three tracks and two island platforms. The 6 stops on the outer tracks while the <6> stops on the center express tracks. During weekdays, 12 local trains terminate at this station, with the <12> continuing north.