The 42nd Street station was an express station on the demolished
IRT Second Avenue Line
The IRT Second Avenue Line, also known as the Second Avenue Elevated or Second Avenue El, was an elevated railway in Manhattan, New York City, United States, from 1878 to 1942. It was operated by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company until 1940 ...
in
Manhattan
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,
New York City
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. It had three tracks and two
island platform
An island platform (also center platform (American English) or centre platform (British English)) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway inte ...
s. The next stop to the north was
50th Street for local trains and
57th Street for express trains. The next stop to the south was
34th Street 34th Street most commonly refers to 34th Street (Manhattan)
34th Street is a major crosstown street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It runs the width of Manhattan Island from the West Side Highway on the West Side to FDR Drive on t ...
for local trains and
14th Street for express trains. The station closed on June 13, 1942.
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IRT Second Avenue Line stations
Railway stations in the United States closed in 1942
Former elevated and subway stations in Manhattan
Second Avenue (Manhattan)
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