A Division (New York City Subway)
The A Division, also known as the IRT Division, is a division of the New York City Subway, consisting of the lines operated with services designated by numbers and the 42nd Street Shuttle. These lines and services were operated by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company before the 1940 city takeover. A Division cars are narrower, shorter, and lighter than those of the B Division, measuring.
List of lines
The following lines are part of the A Division :- IRT 42nd Street Shuttle
- IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line
- IRT Dyre Avenue Line
- IRT Eastern Parkway Line
- Flushing Line">IRT Flushing Line">Flushing Line
- IRT Jerome Avenue Line
- IRT Lenox Avenue Line
- Lexington Avenue Line">IRT Lexington Avenue Line">Lexington Avenue Line
- IRT New Lots Line
- IRT Nostrand Avenue Line
- IRT Pelham Line
- IRT White Plains Road Line
Service history
Numbers were assigned to subway services in 1948:| Name | North end/type | |
| Seventh Avenue Line|Seventh Avenue] Local | Broadway | |
| Seventh Avenue Express | White Plains Road | |
| Seventh Avenue Express | Lenox Avenue | |
| IRT [Lexington Avenue Line|Lexington Avenue] Express | Jerome | |
| Lexington Avenue Express | Dyre | |
| Lexington Avenue Local | Pelham Bay Park | |
| Pelham Bay Park Express peak direction | Pelham Bay Park | |
| Flushing Express peak direction | Flushing | |
| Flushing Local | Flushing |
The 42nd Street Shuttle and Bowling Green–South Ferry Shuttle also provided subway services, and elevated service remained on the Third Avenue Line and Polo Grounds Shuttle.