125th Street (IRT Lexington Avenue Line station)
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Manhattan
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Template:NYCS station rowHarlem 125th Street (Template:MNRR) Template:MNRR acc
M60 bus to LaGuardia Airport
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Template:NYCS station rowJerome Avenue Line local: Template:NYCS next
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Template:NYCS station rowAugust 1, 1918
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125th Street is the northernmost Manhattan station on the services that use the Lexington Avenue Line, located at Lexington Avenue and 125th Street in Harlem. It lies one block east of Harlem-125th Street on the Metro-North Railroad, and is the planned terminal for the Second Avenue Line.
The station is unique in design. It has two levels, with an island platform on each level, but is not configured in the standard express-local lower-upper configuration (which is used in most stations south of this point). Instead, the upper platform serves northbound (uptown) trains, and the lower level serves southbound (downtown) trains. North of the station, just aftert crossing the Harlem River, the line splits into the Jerome Avenue Line (heading north) and the Pelham Line (heading east). On the lower platform, each track comes from one line, and a flying junction south of the station allows trains to choose the local or express track. On the upper platform, the west track comes from the local track, and the east track comes from the express track; a flying junction north of the station splits the lines.
There is an active tower at the north end of the upper platform.
External links
- NYCsubway.org - IRT East Side: 125th Street (http://nycsubway.org/irt/eastside/irt-eastside-125.html) (text used with permission)