On Saturday, January 9, 2016 at 11:29:07 AM UTC-5, Phil Kane wrote:   
      
   > Even then there were free transfers between systems of subway lines at   
   > many points.  We used them quite often.  The one that we really   
   > wanted, though - IRT Junius Street to BMT Livonia Avenue - didn't   
   > exist and AFAIK never existed until the advent of the MetroCard --   
   > assuming that the pedestrian bridge over the LIRR Bay Ridge Branch   
   > tracks - colloquially called "rape alley" - was still available.  I've   
   > heard that it was either closed or torn down.  All of us east of the   
   > tracks used it to get to Straus  JHS on the west side, and vice versa   
   > for HS students on the west side getting to Thomas Jefferson HS on the   
   > east side.  All gone now.   
      
   Could you give some examples of pre-1948 inter-divisional transfers?  Thanks.   
      
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