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B train map
Map of b train. B train map (New York - USA) to print. B train map (New York - USA) to download. The b train Sixth Avenue Express is a rapid transit service of the New York City Subway. The b train is colored bright orange on route signs, station signs, and the official subway map, since it runs over the IND Sixth Avenue Line in Manhattan as its shown in b train map. During rush hours, the b train is extended to and from Bedford Park Boulevard in the Bronx via Concourse Local.
The b train service operates on weekdays only, from approximately 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. Normal service operates between 145th Street in Harlem, Manhattan and Brighton Beach in Brooklyn during middays and b train run in the evenings via Central Park West Local on the IND Eighth Avenue Line, Sixth Avenue Express, the north side of the Manhattan Bridge, and Brighton Express as its mentioned in b train map.
Designation B was originally intended to designate express trains originating in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan and operating in Midtown Manhattan on the IND Sixth Avenue Line (see b train map). However, the original b train service, beginning with the opening of the Sixth Avenue Line in 1940 and continuing until opening of the Chrystie Street Connection in 1967, ran only as a rush-hour local between 168th Street – Washington Heights and 34th Street – Herald Square.