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New York also has a few abandoned stations, most often (as in a lot of these Parisian stations) because they were so close to other stations that there wasn't m

by rst 5y ago

New York also has a few abandoned stations, most often (as in a lot of these Parisian stations) because they were so close to other stations that there wasn't much point in operating both -- doubly so after platforms on the stations still in use were lengthened to accommodate longer trains. (There are also a bunch of former connections to elevated lines that no longer exist.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_closed_New_York_City_Subway_stations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_closed_New_York_City_S...

mtalantikite 5y ago
I also read once that it made sense to build stations that weren’t yet required for the system because they were already close by digging the tunnels for other stations and they were doing some future capacity planning that ended up getting abandoned. The station near the Broadway G stop comes to mind, which you can access from the north side of the southbound G platform not too far up the tunnel. A while back some artists did an (illegal) show in it.
- elygre 5y ago
  Somewhat unrelated, under the Bank of Norway head office in Oslo, there is a piece of tunnel that was never used. There were two alternative routes being considered for a tunnel under Oslo, and when they built a new bank over one of the routes, they built the tunnel just in case. In the end, the other route was selected. The tunnel was initially used as a firing range for the national bank guards, and later transformed to a parking garage.
- rst 5y ago
  There are a bunch of partially completed stations (or expansion provisions for future stations) which were intended for the "IND Second System" -- a massive set of projects that got killed off by the Great Depression. (The beginning of one of those lines actually got built and put into service, in the form of a one-station spur line branching off Hoyt-Schermerhorn in Brooklyn, and going to Court Street, where the line now stops. It was originally intended to continue into Manhattan and become the Second Avenue Line. Instead, it was operated for a time as a shuttle, then discontinued. Court St. Station is now the main site of the Transit Museum, which may reopen one of these days. There's now a rump Second Avenue Line recently put into service on the Upper East Side -- three stops of it -- but construction of the rest isn't fully funded, it's not planned to reach lower Manhattan for a few more decades, and there are no active plans to continue it into Brooklyn.)

by rst 5y ago

mtalantikite 5y ago

I also read once that it made sense to build stations that weren’t yet required for the system because they were already close by digging the tunnels for other stations and they were doing some future capacity planning that ended up getting abandoned. The station near the Broadway G stop comes to mind, which you can access from the north side of the southbound G platform not too far up the tunnel. A while back some artists did an (illegal) show in it.

elygre 5y ago
Somewhat unrelated, under the Bank of Norway head office in Oslo, there is a piece of tunnel that was never used. There were two alternative routes being considered for a tunnel under Oslo, and when they built a new bank over one of the routes, they built the tunnel just in case. In the end, the other route was selected. The tunnel was initially used as a firing range for the national bank guards, and later transformed to a parking garage.
rst 5y ago
There are a bunch of partially completed stations (or expansion provisions for future stations) which were intended for the "IND Second System" -- a massive set of projects that got killed off by the Great Depression. (The beginning of one of those lines actually got built and put into service, in the form of a one-station spur line branching off Hoyt-Schermerhorn in Brooklyn, and going to Court Street, where the line now stops. It was originally intended to continue into Manhattan and become the Second Avenue Line. Instead, it was operated for a time as a shuttle, then discontinued. Court St. Station is now the main site of the Transit Museum, which may reopen one of these days. There's now a rump Second Avenue Line recently put into service on the Upper East Side -- three stops of it -- but construction of the rest isn't fully funded, it's not planned to reach lower Manhattan for a few more decades, and there are no active plans to continue it into Brooklyn.)