Talk:Metropolitan Street Railway

Mileages from the 1899 map
Going north-south, there are 20 blocks to a mile. Distances between avenues are given on Talk:Commissioners' Plan of 1811. The distances on the map appear to be per track, and all (?) lines were double tracked. --NE2 14:39, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 34th Street Ferry Branch of 23rd Street Crosstown Line, 1.40 mi: (23rd Street) 2nd Avenue - 28th and 29th Streets - 1st Avenue (34th Street)
 * 34th Street Crosstown Line, 1.74 mi: (Hudson River) 34th Street (10th Avenue) - (Broadway) 34th Street (Lexington Avenue)

Chambers Street and Grand Street Ferry Railroad?
It appears that the Chambers Street and Grand Street Ferry Railroad built the Chambers and Madison Streets Line: - but I can't find anything about a lease or merger. --NE2 20:38, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

1897 list of lines
This is from a Brooklyn Daily Eagle article on April 2, 1897 page 3. Line names were added by me. --NE2 02:37, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Owned
 * Grand Central station to Chambers street ferry 3.36 Avenue C Line from Houston, West Street and Pavonia Ferry Railroad
 * Grand street ferry to Chambers street ferry 2.07 Chambers and Madison Streets Line from Chambers Street and Grand Street Ferry Railroad
 * Vesey and Church streets to South ferry .61 part of Sixth Avenue Line and Eighth Avenue Line from South Ferry Railroad
 * Broadway, Fifteenth street to Bowling Green 2.51 part of Broadway Line from Broadway Surface Railroad
 * Grand street ferry to Fourteenth street ferry, North river 3.28 Metropolitan Crosstown Line from Metropolitan Crosstown Railway
 * Lexington avenue 6.19 Lexington Avenue Line from Lexington Avenue and Pavonia Ferry Railroad
 * Columbus and Ninth avenues 3.26 Columbus Avenue Line from Columbus and Ninth Avenue Railroad
 * Lenox avenue 1.81 Lenox Avenue Line built new?
 * Branches 1.95
 * Second track 24.79
 * Total 49.83


 * Leased
 * Broadway and Seventh avenue 16.44 Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad
 * Twenty-third street and leased line 17.84 Twenty-Third Street Railway and Bleecker Street and Fulton Ferry Railroad
 * Ninth avenue 15.26 Ninth Avenue Railroad
 * Central park, North and East rivers 25.59 Central Park, North and East Rivers Railroad
 * Forty-second street and Grand street ferry 8.66 Forty-Second Street and Grand Street Ferry Railroad
 * Sixth avenue 8.14 Sixth Avenue Railroad
 * Thirty-fourth street 1.74 Thirty-fourth Street Crosstown Railway
 * Eighth avenue 20.00 Eighth Avenue Railroad
 * Fulton street 2.00 Fulton Street Railroad
 * New York and Harlem River railroad, city line 19.32 New York and Harlem Railroad
 * Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth, crosstown 4.85 Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Streets Crosstown Railroad
 * Total 139.84


 * Total 189.67

25.34 miles by cable, 6.78 by conduit, and 133.38 by horses --NE2 02:37, 18 January 2007 (UTC)