City Hall (IRT Lexington Avenue Line) - Track Configuration

Track Configuration

City Hall station track layout
Legend
IRT Lexington Avenue Line continues north
Brooklyn Bridge – City Hall
abandoned platform
storage tracks
IRT Lexington Avenue Line continues south

North of City Hall station, the IRT Lexington Avenue Line carries four tracks. As seen in the diagram, left to right, these are the downtown local track, the downtown express track, the uptown express track, and the uptown local track.

South of the Brooklyn Bridge station, there is a switch on the downtown local track, allowing trains to leave service and enter either of two storage tracks. Trains in service turn onto a balloon loop, continuing past the abandoned side platform on the west side of the loop, and re-appearing in the Brooklyn Bridge station on the uptown local track. The uptown and downtown express tracks pass over the loop, continuing south.

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