Extent and service
The following services use part or all of the White Plains Road Line:| Route | Service | Section of line |
|---|---|---|
| Local | Full line | |
| Local (express rush hours in peak direction and some midday northbound express runs, no service late nights except between the IRT Dyre Avenue Line and East 180th Street) | East 180th Street to 149th Street–Grand Concourse | |
| Local, rush hours in peak direction only | Nereid Avenue–238th Street to Gun Hill Road | |
| Local, rush hours in peak direction only (express some PM rush hour northbound trains) | Gun Hill Road to East 180th Street |
| Section of line | Tracks | Services |
|---|---|---|
| Wakefield–241st Street to Nereid Avenue–238th Street | Local | always |
| Express | ||
| Nereid Avenue–238th Street to Gun Hill Road | Local | always, rush hours in peak direction |
| Express | ||
| Gun Hill Road to East 180th Street | Local | always, rush hours in peak direction |
| Express | some PM rush hour trips [northbound only] | |
| East 180th Street to 149th Street–Grand Concourse | Local | always, all but late nights and rush hours in peak direction |
| Express | rush hours in peak direction and some midday reverse peak direction runs (northbound only) | |
| South of 149th Street–Grand Concourse | All | always |
The IRT White Plains Road Line begins at the Wakefield–241st Street terminal, with two tracks and one island platform (and two closed side platforms). Crossovers just south of the station take trains to the correct tracks, and a center express track comes out of those crossovers. Between Wakefield-241st Street and Nereid Avenue-238th Street, a connection comes in from the 239th Street Yard.
Just north of Gun Hill Road, the IRT Third Avenue Line used to split from the local tracks (with crossovers to the express tracks just to the north). The line went to a lower level of Gun Hill Road station and then turned west.
The IRT Dyre Avenue Line merges to the local tracks just north of East 180th Street, and then crossovers allow those trains to reach the express tracks. The late-night Dyre Avenue Shuttle uses the center track to end its run, and rush hour trains in the peak direction change to the express track here. On the west side of this junction is the East 180th Street Yard; the Unionport Yard is to the east.
The now-gone three-track Bronx Park Spur merged from the west after East 180th Street, with one track into each of the mainline tracks. Just after this on the east side was a connection to the West Farms Yard, also gone.
The express track ends north of Third Avenue–149th Street, and from there to the end the line has two tracks. Formerly in that area there was a connection just to the north to the local tracks of the IRT Third Avenue Line, and a connection to the south, bypassing 149th Street station on the Third Avenue Line (Bergen Street Bypass). Just past those former connections, the line goes underground to run beneath the Harlem River.
Just after 149th Street–Grand Concourse, tracks split off and turn south to merge with the local tracks of the IRT Jerome Avenue Line. The Jerome Avenue Line then merges with the IRT Pelham Line to become the IRT Lexington Avenue Line.
The line then passes under the Harlem River and ends at the IRT Lenox Avenue Line at the at-grade 142nd Street Junction.
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