New York Railways Corporation

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The New York Railways Corporation was a railway company that operated

Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority. The organization was the successor to the New York Railways Company which was in receivership
.

History

The New York Railways Corporation took over operations from the receivers of the New York Railways Company on May 1, 1925.[1]

A majority of stock was bought in August 1926 by the Fifth Avenue Coach Company which had been acquired by the newly formed The Omnibus Corporation the same year. It was reported at the time that the company had plans to abandon the lines and replace them with buses operated by the newly formed New York City Omnibus Corporation.[2][3][4]

The Eighth and Ninth Avenue Railroads merged in December 1926 to form the Eighth and Ninth Avenues Railway,[5] but that company entered receivership on May 5, 1927,[6] and was bought by the Fifth Avenue Coach Company.[citation needed] The New York and Harlem's lines were leased again in 1932.[citation needed]

Conversion to bus operation started with the

Fourth and Madison Avenues Line in February 1935 using specially-built larger vehicles from Yellow Coach Manufacturing Company). The line was judged to be a success and the remaining streetcar lines were converted over an 18-month period:[7]

  • Sixth Avenue Line - March 12, 1936
  • Seventh Avenue Line - March 6, 1936
  • Eighth Avenue Line
    - November 12, 1935
  • Ninth and Amsterdam Avenues Line
    - November 12, 1935
  • Broadway Line
    - February 12, 1936
  • Columbus Avenue Line
    - February 12, 1936
  • Lexington Avenue Line - March 25, 1936
  • Eighth Street Crosstown Line
    - March 6, 1936
  • 14th Street Crosstown Line
    - April 20, 1936
  • 23rd Street Crosstown Line
    - April 8, 1936
  • 34th Street Crosstown Line
    - April 1, 1936
  • 86th Street Crosstown Line
    - June 8, 1936
  • 116th Street Crosstown Line - April 1, 1936

Due to a stockholders' lawsuit, the company had to operate a single trolley trip on each line until early June 1936 to retain the

Eighth Avenue Coach Company buses, both companies owned by Fifth Avenue Coach.[9][10]

References

  1. New York Times, New York Railways Plan Now Effective
    , April 28, 1925, page 27
  2. New York Times, Mayor Dissatisfied with New Bus Plan
    , February 26, 1926, page 1
  3. New York Times, Coach Line Ready to Rip Up Car Tracks in a Wide Bus Plan
    , May 24, 1926, page 1
  4. New York Times, Fifth Av. Coach Co. Wins Fight to Buy New York Railways
    , August 26, 1926, page 1
  5. New York Times, Transit Companies Merge
    , December 24, 1926, page 22
  6. New York Times, Trolley Lines Here Enter Receivership
    , May 6, 1927, page 1
  7. ^ a b Electric Railroader's Association, The Bulletin, Vol. 49, No. 5, May 2006
  8. New York Times, Bus Service to Begin on 6th Av. Thursday
    , March 10, 1936, page 25
  9. New York Times, 5 Bus Franchises are Under Inquiry
    , January 4, 1934, page 1
  10. New York Times, Buses to Run Soon on 8th and 9th Avs.
    , October 5, 1935, page 17
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