20-1044: (Redirected from L-train ) El train or L Train may refer to: An Elevated railway The Chicago "L" , a rapid transit system The Market–Frankford Line in Philadelphia, commonly called "the El" L (New York City Subway service) L Taraval , streetcar route in San Francisco L Line (Los Angeles Metro) , a light rail line in Los Angeles County, California See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "l-train" or "el-train" on Misplaced Pages. All pages with titles containing el train All pages with titles containing l train L Line (disambiguation) 1 Train (disambiguation) I Train (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
40-458: A suspension railway . Elevated railways are normally found in urban areas where there would otherwise be multiple level crossings . Usually, the tracks of elevated railways that run on steel viaducts can be seen from street level. The earliest elevated railway was the London and Greenwich Railway on a brick viaduct of 878 arches, built between 1836 and 1838. The first 2.5 miles (4.0 km) of
60-539: A train derailed and fell to the street . There were 61 casualties. The predecessor of the Ninth Avenue Elevated was the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway, which was built on Greenwich Street by Charles T. Harvey and ran from July 1, 1868, to 1870. The line used multiple one-mile-long (1.6 km-long) cable loops, driven by steam engines in cellars of buildings adjacent to the track. Each loop
80-989: Is Tokyo's driverless Yurikamome line, opened in 1995. Most monorails are elevated railways, such as the Disneyland Monorail System (1959), the Tokyo Monorail (1964), the Sydney Monorail (1988–2013), the KL Monorail , the Las Vegas Monorail , the Seattle Center Monorail and the São Paulo Monorail . Most maglev railways are also elevated. During the 1890s there was some interest in suspension railways , particularly in Germany, with
100-485: Is a type of driverless grade-separated, mass-transit system. The term is generally used only to describe systems that serve as loops or feeder systems, but is sometimes applied to considerably more complex automated systems. Similar to monorails, Bombardier Innovia APM technology uses only one rail to guide the vehicle along the guideway. APMs are common at airports and effective at helping passengers quickly reach their gates. Several elevated APM systems at airports including
120-483: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Elevated railway An elevated railway or elevated train (also known as an el train or el for short) is a railway with the tracks above street level on a viaduct or other elevated structure (usually constructed from steel, cast iron, concrete, or bricks). The railway may be broad-gauge , standard-gauge or narrow-gauge railway, light rail , monorail , or
140-704: The Berlin Stadtbahn (1882) and the Vienna Stadtbahn (1898) are also mainly elevated. The first electric elevated railway was the Liverpool Overhead Railway , which operated through Liverpool docks from 1893 until 1956. In London, the Docklands Light Railway is a modern elevated railway that opened in 1987 and has since expanded. The trains are driverless and automatic. Another modern elevated railway
160-508: The London and Blackwall Railway (1840) was also built on a viaduct. During the 1840s there were other plans for elevated railways in London that never came to fruition. From the late 1860s onward, elevated railways became popular in US cities. New York's West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway opened in 1868 as a cable-hauled elevated railway and was operated using locomotives after 1871, when it
180-727: The PHX Sky Train at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport; AeroTrain at Kuala Lumpur International Airport; and the Tracked Shuttle System at London Gatwick Airport , United Kingdom. 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 in July 1868 as
200-650: The Schwebebahn Dresden , (1891–) and the Wuppertal Schwebebahn (1901). H-Bahn suspension railways were built in Dortmund and Düsseldorf airport , 1975. The Memphis Suspension Railway opened in 1982. Suspension railways are usually monorail; Shonan Monorail and Chiba Urban Monorail in Japan, despite their names, are suspension railways. People mover or automated people mover (APM)
220-646: The Sixth Avenue El at 53rd Street, continuing along Columbus Avenue in upper Manhattan between 59th Street and 110th, turning east on 110th and running north on Eighth Avenue (Central Park West and Frederick Douglass Boulevard) until the Harlem River. In January 1917, the installation of a third track was completed. The third track allowed the IRT to begin running express trains on the line in July 1918, from 125th Street to 155th Street ; trains began using
SECTION 10
#1732786757460240-696: The West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway , as an experimental single-track cable-powered elevated railway from Battery Place, at the south end of Manhattan Island, northward up Greenwich Street to Cortlandt Street . By 1879 the line was extended to the Harlem River at 155th Street . It was electrified and taken over by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company in 1903. The main line ceased operation in June 1940, after it
260-635: The first demonstration of an electric traction engine in New York took place on the Ninth Avenue El. The Ninth Avenue Elevated was extended up Greenwich Street and Ninth Avenue by 1891. The Ninth Avenue El and several other lines of the Manhattan Railway Company were taken over with a 99-year lease by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company on April 1, 1903. The Ninth Avenue Elevated extended over 100 feet (30 m) above
280-575: The following services were being operated: Most of the line was closed June 11, 1940, and dismantled, following the purchase of the IRT by the City of New York. A small portion of the line north of 155th Street remained in service as the "Polo Grounds Shuttle". Service ended in August 1958 as a result of the departure of the New York Giants baseball team, which had relocated to San Francisco, and
300-512: The new express station at 145th Street for the first time. At the same time, the line was extended to 162nd Street in the Bronx, and stations were opened at Sedgwick Avenue and Anderson–Jerome Avenues . In December 1921, Lexington Avenue–Jerome Avenue subway trains began running north of 167th Street at all times, replacing elevated trains, which ran to Woodlawn during rush hours, but terminated at 167th Street during non-rush hours. As of 1934,
320-413: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title El train . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=El_train&oldid=1195423512 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
340-664: The street at "Suicide Curve", where the line made two 90-degree turns above 110th Street to travel from Columbus Avenue to Eighth Avenue. On September 11, 1905 , the worst accident in the history of New York's elevated railways took place at a curve at 53rd street, resulting in 13 deaths and 48 serious injuries. The rebuilding project was extended all the way north to 116th St., creating Manhattan's first three-track elevated, although center-track express service did not begin until 1916. The line began at South Ferry and ran along Greenwich Street from Battery Place to Gansevoort Street in lower Manhattan, Ninth Avenue in midtown (joining with
360-680: Was renamed the New York Elevated Railroad. This was followed in 1875 by the Manhattan Railway Company , which took over the New York Elevated Railroad. Other early elevated systems in the US included the Chicago "L" , which was built by multiple competing companies beginning in 1892, as well as the Boston Elevated Railway in 1901 and the Market–Frankford Line in Philadelphia in 1907. Globally,
380-668: Was replaced by the IND Eighth Avenue Line which had opened in 1932. The last section in use, over the Harlem River , was known as the Polo Grounds Shuttle . It closed in August 1958. This portion used a now-removed swing bridge called the Putnam Bridge , and went through a still-extant tunnel with two partially underground stations. The line had the worst accident in the history of New York City elevated railways , on September 11, 1905, when
400-440: Was started when a car neared it and stopped when it had passed. The cables were equipped with collars that the car connected to with "claws". As the claws could not be "slipped" the car was jerked each time it moved to the next cable. The system proved cumbersome, broke down several times and eventually the company ran out of money and the system was abandoned. The new owners replaced the cable cars with steam locomotives . In 1885,
#459540