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   On 26.10.17 23:08, hounslow3@yahoo.co.uk wrote:   
   > On 25.10.17 9:58, tangleprod wrote:   
   >> Hey folks,   
   >> I have a crazy dream of doing an adventure on a railway inspection   
   >> cycle along a disused intact railway.   
   >>   
   >> Does anyone have any suggestions of great routes for me to try? or any   
   >> sections of disused railway that I might be able to link together with   
   >> a short road section? Preferably a route with minimal chance of being   
   >> hit by a train!   
   >>   
   >> Many thanks in advance.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Also not in the UK, but you could take a look at the New York   
   > Westchester & Boston, in the United States. This network was a   
   > subsidiary of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railway, and it ran   
   > from the south Bronx to White Plains with a branch line to Port Chester.   
   >   
   > While it will be 80 years in late December since that railroad ceased   
   > all operations, there are many places that you can still see as   
   > testimony to the high-quality craftmanship that went into this venture.   
   >   
   > You can even ride a part of it on the New York City Subway's Dyre Avenue   
   > Line, which runs from East 180th Street to Dyre Avenue - Eastchester.   
   > That section was the NYW&B, and the Interborough Rapid Transit (one of   
   > the predecessor companies of New York City Transit) took it over in 1941   
   > to run shuttle service.   
   >   
   > Those stations are well worth seeing. The NYW&B also had its   
   > headquarters at E. 180th street,  and it is now a NYCT office.   
   >   
   > If you take a ride on the New Haven Line between New Rochelle and Port   
   > Chester, you will notice that catenaries in some places along the   
   > westbound side of the tracks are wider. This was to capacitate the   
   > NYW&B's OHLE, as it ran parallel to the New Haven in that area. Indeed,   
   > you will see abutments at some stations, such as Mamaroneck, Rye and   
   > Port Chester, where the NYW&B had its ROWs.   
   >   
   > The station house at Port Chester is still intact, AFAIK.   
   >   
   > One of the better kept old stations in Westchester, however, is   
   > Heathcote station. Some of the tilings and the finish are still intact   
   > and remain in very good shape, AFAIK.   
   >   
   >   
      
   Just made a mistake. The City of New York acquired the NYW&B section   
   between E. 180th Street and Eastchester - Dyre Avenue in 1940, the same   
   year that they acquired the Interborough Rapid Transit.   
      
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