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The Broadway Line is a Rapid Transit line of the division of the New York City Subway system. The line was built as a part of the ''' Broadway-Fourth Avenue Subway''' and is also known as the '''Broadway-BMT Line''' and the '''Broadway (BMT) Subway'''. Trains of the and serve the express run via the Manhattan Bridge and the and lines serve the local (the R extends into Brooklyn via the Montague Street Tunnel ; the W terminates in Manhattan at Whitehall Street ). The line is often referred to as the N 'n' R due to the and services that were the only services which continued to operate over the line during the long years of closure of the Manhattan Bridge south tracks. Trains using this mainline are assigned the color yellow. EXTENT AND SERVICE The Broadway-BMT Line begins at the 60th Street Tunnel from Queens and runs by the following alignment: :West under 60th Street as a two-track Subway line, stationing at 3rd and Lexington Avenues, and again at Fifth Avenue-Grand Army Plaza, then turning south to 7th Avenue into the 57th Street (Broadway-BMT Line) station local tracks. This segment of the line carries the N and '''W''' services from the Astoria Line and the '''R''' service from the Queens Boulevard Line . At the 57th Street (Broadway-BMT Line) station it joins two express tracks that enter the station from the north via the BMT 63rd Street Line . There is no scheduled BMT service on the 63rd Street Line at present. The BMT 63rd Street Line will carry the Q service across 63rd Street and up the proposed Second Avenue Line , when and if built. The express tracks at 57th Street are currently used as terminal tracks for the Q train.
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