Talk:List of streetcar lines in Brooklyn

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;Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company reorg 1896 from Long Island Traction Company
*Brooklyn Heights Railroad 1887, bought 1893 by LIT: Montague Street Line directly
**Brooklyn City Railroad 1853, leased 1893 by BHRR: included Nostrand Avenue Line (Nostrand Avenue Railroad?? ), "Nostrand-Prospect", "Nostrand-Culver" (in conjunction with South Brooklyn Railway), Bushwick Avenue Line, Tompkins Avenue Line (Tompkins Avenue Railroad?? ), and Grand Street Line; included Fulton Street Line (including Fulton and Powers Street - huh?), Myrtle Avenue Line (including to Greenpoint), Court Street Line to Greenwood, Greene and Gates Avenues Line, Flushing Avenue Line, Flatbush Avenue Line, Hamilton Avenue Line to Fort Hamilton, Graham Avenue Line to Marcy, Furman Street Line
***Bushwick Railroad 1867
***Brooklyn Crosstown Railroad 1872: Erie Basin to Hunter's Point, using Park Avenue
****Brooklyn City and Prospect Park Railroad (possibly AKA Hunter's Point and Prospect Park Railroad or Brooklyn City, Hunter's Point and Prospect Park Railroad)
*****Nassau Railroad
*****Greenpoint and Williamsburgh Railroad
******Brooklyn City and Ridgewood Railroad 
***Calvary Cemetery, Greenpoint and Brooklyn Railroad 1884
****Calvary Cemetery Railroad: Newtown Creek Bridge to Fulton Ferry (using Park Avenue) with branch to Greenpoint Ferry
****Greenpoint and Brooklyn Railroad
***New Williamsburgh and Flatbush Railroad 1873
****Williamsburgh and Flatbush Railroad 1866
***Greenpoint and Lorimer Street Railroad 1884
***Grand Street and Newtown Railroad 1860, leased 1890 by BCRR
***South Brooklyn Street Railroad
**Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad
***Park Avenue Railroad (sold to Atlantic Avenue Railroad??)
***Greenwood and Coney Island Railroad: Greenwood Cemetery to Coney Island
***New York and Coney Island Railroad: Norton's Point Line
***Prospect Park and South Brooklyn Railroad: Kensing Junction to city line
*Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad 1894, bought 1894 by LIT: included Reid Avenue Line, Ralph Avenue Line, Ralph and Rockaway Avenues Line, Broadway Line, Sumner Avenue Line, Metropolitan Avenue Line
**Broadway Railroad 1858, bought 1894 by BQC&S: South 7th Street Ferry to East New York and 11th Street (Hooper Street) to "Morrell's slip" (along Hooper Street, South 5th Street, and Montrose Avenue???)
***Yates Avenue and Flatbush Railroad 1881 (Yates Avenue is now Sumner Avenue)
***Ralph Avenue branch 1885
***Cypress Hills extension 1883
**Broadway Ferry and Metropolitan Avenue Railroad 1892, bought 1894 by BQC&S: crossed English Kills at Metropolitan Avenue
***Brooklyn, Bushwick and Queens County Railroad 1885
****North Second Street and Middle Village Railroad 1870: along Metropolitan Avenue
*****Grand Street Ferry and Middle Village Railroad 1869
******Metropolitan Railroad 1864: North 6th Street and Bushwick Avenue - not built?
**Jamaica and Brooklyn Railroad 1890, bought 1894 by BQC&S
***Jamaica, Woodhaven and Brooklyn Railway
****East New York and Jamaica Railroad
***Jamaica and Brooklyn Plank Road
***Long Island Electric Company (different from Long Island Electric Railway!?)
***Jamaica and Woodhaven Plankroad?
*Sea Beach Railroad 1897, bought 1897 by BRT
**New York and Sea Beach Railway 1883
***New York and Sea Beach Railroad
*Nassau Electric Railroad 1893: over Brooklyn Bridge to Canarsie, Sheepshead Bay, Manhattan Beach, Fort Hamilton, Greenwood Cemetery, Bensonhurst, Bath Beach, and Coney Island; included Wilson Avenue Line and Vanderbilt Avenue Line
**Atlantic Avenue Railroad 1872 (owned by Kings County Traction Company 1899, successor to Brooklyn Traction Company 1893), leased 1896 by Nassau Electric - more succession in here but it's not important: included Atlantic Street and Greenwood Line (Flatbush Avenue and 5th Avenue to 37th Street, and a branch on 3rd Street from 5th Avenue to the city line), with a route to Bedford too
***Brooklyn Central Railroad: Atlantic Avenue, also planned "Fifth Avenue through Greenwood and Flatbush, through Lexington, Lafayette and Gates Avenues to the Broadway Railroad, and through Furman Street to Wall Street and Fulton Ferries"
***Park Avenue Railroad
***Brooklyn, Bath and Coney Island Railroad
***Brooklyn Cable Company
***South Brooklyn Central Railroad 1877, leased 1885
****South Brooklyn and Park Railroad 1869
*****Brooklyn and Canarsie Railroad
******South Brooklyn and Bergen Street Railroad
**Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad (city division) 1874
***Park Avenue Railroad
***Greenwood and Coney Island Railroad
**Brooklyn, Bath and West End Railroad 1879
***Gunther Road 1862, 1868
**Kings County Electric Railway 1892, bought 1893 by Nassau Electric: Church Avenue Line, Rockaway Avenue Line
**Coney Island, Fort Hamilton and Brooklyn Railroad 1894, bought 1894 by Nassau Electric
**Coney Island and Gravesend Railway 1893, leased 1897 by Nassau Electric
**Union Railroad? Union Street Railroad?
**United Railroad?
*Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad 1860: included Franklin Avenue Line - how does this fit in? Was it independent in 1904?
**Prospect Park and Flatbush Railroad bought 1901: Grand Street Ferry along River Street, Kent Avenue, South 9th Street, Wythe Avenue, and Franklin Avenue to Prospect Park, later extended on Ocean Avenue to Greenwood Cemtery
**Brooklyn City and Newtown Railroad 1860, leased 1897 to CI&B: DeKalb Avenue Line - Gold Street, Willoughby Avenue, Debevoise Street, DeKalb Avenue in 1869; also included the Franklin Avenue Line
***Franklin Avenue Railroad 1887
****Grand Street, Prospect Park and Flatbush Railroad 1870
**De Kalb Avenue and North Beach Railroad
*Van Brunt Street and Erie Basin Railroad 1861
*South Brooklyn Railway
**South Brooklyn Railroad and Terminal Company
;unknown
*Grand Street and Maspeth Railroad
*Grand Street Railroad
*Van Brunt Street and Erie Basin Railroad
*South Fourth and Myrtle Railroad? - seems to have been the Bushwick Railroad
*Hunter's Point and Prospect Park Railroad: Hunter's Point Ferry to South Ferry
*Williamsburgh and Newtown Railroad
*Brooklyn and Winfield Railway? Brooklyn, Winfield and Newtown Railroad?
*Van Brunt Street and Erie Basin Railroad
*Washington Avenue Railroad 
--NE2 23:46, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Companies

message: *1 Fifth Avenue Line, but turning east on 15th Street and south on 9th Avenue to the 9th Avenue Depot (Nassau Electric Railroad?)
*2 Fifth Avenue Line (Nassau Electric Railroad)
*3 St. Johns Place Line
*4 Flatbush Avenue Line, but turning south on 9th Avenue to the 9th Avenue Depot (Atlantic Avenue Railroad? see Hudson Avenue Line)
*5 Seventh Avenue Line
*6 Broadway Line (Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad)
*7 Reid Avenue Line (Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad)
*8 Sumner Avenue Line (Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad)
*9 Hicks Street Line
*10 Greenpoint Line (Brooklyn City Railroad)
*11 Greenpoint Line (Brooklyn City Railroad)
*11 (duplicate number) Ralph Avenue Line (Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad)
*12 Graham Avenue Line (Brooklyn City Railroad)
*13 Myrtle Avenue Line (Brooklyn City Railroad)
*14 Greene and Gates Avenues Line (Brooklyn City Railroad)
*15 Putnam Avenue Line (Brooklyn City Railroad)
*15 (duplicate number) Calvary Cemetery Line (Brooklyn City Railroad)
*16 Fulton Street Line (Brooklyn City Railroad)
*17 Flatbush Avenue Line (Brooklyn City Railroad)
*18 Third Avenue Line
*19 Court Street Line (Brooklyn City Railroad)
*20 Hamilton Avenue Line (Brooklyn City Railroad)
*21 Furman Street Line (Brooklyn City Railroad)
*22 Third Avenue Line (Brooklyn City Railroad?)
*23 DeKalb Avenue Line (Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad)
*24 Crosstown Line (Brooklyn City Railroad)
*25 Bushwick Avenue Line (Brooklyn City Railroad)
*26 variant of Bushwick Avenue Line to Greenpoint rather than Williamsburg (Brooklyn City Railroad)
*27 Tompkins Avenue Line (Brooklyn City Railroad)
*28 Smith Street and Coney Island Avenue Line (Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad)
*29 Coney Island Avenue Line along Ninth Street to Hamilton Ferry (Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad)
*30 Coney Island Avenue Line to Prospect Park? (Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad)
*31 Meeker Avenue Line to Williamsburg
*32 Grand Street Line (Brooklyn City Railroad)
*33 Franklin Avenue Line (Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad)
*34 part of Furman Street Line
*35 Nostrand Avenue Line (Brooklyn City Railroad)
*36 Metropolitan Avenue Line
*37 Vanderbilt Avenue Line (Nassau Electric Railroad)
*38 Bergen Street Line
*39 can't find it
*40 Van Brunt Street Line
*41 Montague Street Line
*42 65th Street-Fort Hamilton Line
*43 Jamaica Line
*44 can't find it
*45 can't find it
*46 Union Avenue Line and Flushing Avenue Line (Brooklyn City Railroad)
*47 Park Avenue Line (Nassau Electric Railroad)
--NE2 03:43, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Routes on [[:Image:1897 Brooklyn map.jpg|1897 map]]

message: *Myrtle Avenue Line July 3, 1854 - all other BCRR lines not listed branched off this and did not have their own trackage downtown
*Flushing Avenue Line by 1855 
*Furman Street Line between November 1858  and 1860  - the Fifth Avenue Line used this as a branch of the Atlantic Avenue Railroad
*DeKalb Avenue Line January 27, 1862 
*Smith Street Line June 1862 
*Hudson Avenue Railroad early 1868 
*Crosstown Line April 1869 
*Vanderbilt Avenue Line May 1871 downtown  - mostly along existing lines downtown; the Park Avenue Line later branched off - the part on Vanderbilt Avenue had been a branch of the Crosstown
*Washington Street trackage (DeKalb Avenue Line) 1872
*Adams Street trackage (Atlantic Avenue Railroad) 1874 
*Montague Street Line July 1891 
*Seventh Avenue Line unknown
*St. Johns Place Line unknown
*Bergen Street Line unknown
--NE2 07:07, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Openings of lines to downtown Brooklyn

message: has some useful information. --NE2 15:26, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Downtown Brooklyn traffic patterns

message: In 1926, Main and Front both had two tracks, with no apparent connections:  --NE2 18:21, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Track configurations

message: The Brooklyn City Railroad split from the Brooklyn Heights Railroad on October 19, 1919, taking 28 lines with it. It's not clear if the Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad and Nassau Electric Railroad split. The Brooklyn and Queens Transit Corporation took over operations on July 1, 1929.
Names given here are mostly from the 1916 Brooklyn Daily Eagle Almanac.
;Brooklyn City Railroad
*Avenue C Line
*Bergen Beach Shuttle
*50 Bushwick Avenue Line
*Calvary Cemetery Line
*54 Court Street Line (combined with Myrtle Avenue Line)
*15 Crosstown Line
*Cypress Hills Line
*28 Erie Basin Line
*41 Flatbush Avenue Line
*Flatbush-Prospect Park Line
*57 Flushing Avenue Line
*Flatbush Avenue Shuttle (discontinued 1926)
*Flushing and Knickerbocker Avenues Line
*58 Flushing-Ridgewood Line
*25 Fulton Street Line
*Gates-Prospect Park Line
*16 Graham Avenue Line
*59 Grand Street Line
*52 Greene and Gates Avenues Line
*17 Greenpoint Line (presumably restored to downtown)
*33 Hamilton Avenue Line
*42 Holy Cross Line
*Hunter's Point Line
*48 Lorimer Street Line
*Lutheran Line
*Meeker Avenue Line
*54 Myrtle Avenue Line
*Nassau Avenue Line?
*44 Nostrand Avenue Line
*43 Nostrand Avenue Shuttle
*Nostrand-Prospect Park Line (discontinued 1919?)
*26 Putnam Avenue and Halsey Street Line
*55 Richmond Hill Line
*16th Avenue Line??
*34 65th Street and Bay Ridge Avenue Line
*65th Street-Fort Hamilton Line
*37 Third Avenue Line
*39th Street Ferry-Fort Hamilton Line
*7 Tompkins Avenue Line
*56 Union Avenue Line
*Wyckoff Avenue Line
*Wyckoff Avenue Shuttle
This rough enumeration gives a total of 38 lines from the 1916 list. Presumably some were combined in the count of 28.
;Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad
*Broadway Ferry Shuttle?
*24 Broadway Line
*27 Jamaica Avenue Line
*53 Metropolitan Avenue Line
*Metropolitan Avenue Shuttle (discontinued 1920)
*11 Ralph Avenue Line?
*10 Ralph and Rockaway Avenues Line?
*3 Sumner Avenue Line
*46 Utica and Reid Avenues Line (presumably combined from the Reid Avenue Line - which went to Coney Island - and the Utica Avenue Line)
;Nassau Electric Railroad
*2 Bergen Street Line
*8 Church Avenue Line
*Culver Shuttle?
*30 Eighth Avenue Line?
*77 15th Street Line
*32 Fifth Avenue Line
*Furman Street Shuttle
*Hicks Street Line (discontinued 1921)
*Hoyt and Sackett Streets Line
*New Lots Avenue Line
*83 Norton's Point Shuttle
*49 Ocean Avenue Line
*Park Avenue Line
*9 Rockaway Parkway Line
*Rogers Avenue Line
*36 Sea Gate Line?
*67 Seventh Avenue Line
*31 65th and 86th Streets Line (mostly)
*5 St. Johns Place Line
*39th Street Ferry-Coney Island Line (mostly)
*71 Union Street Line
*Vanderbilt Avenue Line
*38 West End Line
*14 Wilson Avenue Line
;Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad
*63 Coney Island Avenue Line
*21 DeKalb Avenue Line
*47 Franklin Avenue Line
*68 Smith Street and Coney Island Avenue Line
*72 Smith and Ninth Streets Line
;probable combinations and other companies
*Brooklyn Bridge Local
*Bush Terminal Line
*Flatbush and Seventh Avenues Line
*13 Gravesend and Church Avenues Line
*Greenpoint Line (to Prospect Park)
*Manhattan Bridge Three-Cent Line
*69 McDonald and Vanderbilt Avenues Line
*29 Meeker and Marcy Avenues Line
*Montague Street Line (discontinued 1923 or 1924)
*73 Norton's Point Line
*Nostrand-Culver Line (discontinued 1919?)
*Reid Avenue Line (to Coney Island)
*Tompkins-Culver Line
*Van Brunt Street and Erie Basin Line
*Williamsburg Bridge Local
--NE2 13:36, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Split of lines between 1919 and 1929

message: The stop at "Trinity Cemetery" wouldn't happen to be this Trinity Cemetery, would it? ----DanTD (talk) 14:47, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trinity Cemetery in Brooklyn? 

message: The existing Joe KorNer Brooklyn Trolley link is a dead one, but I think it has been split between random collections of other people who contributed to his site Here's one, and I'm pretty sure there's one that was made by somebody who died in 1990. ----DanTD (talk) 23:21, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  JoeKorNer links 

message: Brooklyn Streetcars, by the Branford Electric Railway Association is a decent source of info. ---------User:DanTD (talk)  17:40, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another source