IND World's Fair Line

IND World's Fair Line
IND World's Fair Line
	A colored image of a GG train on the IND World's Fair Line c. 1939. This is one of the few color pictures of the line in existence.
Overview
Status	Demolished
Locale	Queens, New York City, New York
Termini	East of 71st Avenue Station; World's Fair Station, Flushing Meadows–Corona Park;
Stations	1
Service
Type	Rapid transit
System	New York City Subway; Independent Subway System
Services	IND Queens Boulevard Line
Depot(s)	Jamaica Yard
Rolling stock	R1-9
History
Opened	April 30, 1939
Closed	October 28, 1940
Technical
Line length	8,400 feet (2,600 m)
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Route map
Route map
	Legend

The IND World's Fair Line, officially the World's Fair Railroad,^[4] was a temporary branch of the Independent Subway System (IND) serving the 1939 New York World's Fair in Queens, New York City. Part of the New York City Subway, it split from the IND Queens Boulevard Line at an existing flying junction east of Forest Hills–71st Avenue station, ran through the Jamaica Yard and then ran northeast and north through Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, roughly along the current path of the Van Wyck Expressway. The line continued along a wooden trestle to the World's Fair Railroad Station, located slightly south of Horace Harding Boulevard (now the Long Island Expressway). The World's Fair station, the only one on the line, consisted of two tracks and three platforms.

The line was proposed in 1936, and the New York state legislature approved the line's construction the next year. Construction began in early 1938. The line and station were only open in 1939 and 1940 during the fair's two operating seasons. Passengers had to pay a ten-cent fare to use this line, double the subway's standard five-cent fare. The Interborough Rapid Transit and the Brooklyn Manhattan Transit operated a competing service to the fair via the World's Fair station of their joint-operated IRT Flushing Line. The World's Fair Railroad and station are the only IND line and station to have been closed and demolished.

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^ "World's Fair Spur May Charge Dime; Independent Subway Link to Have Turnstiles With 2-Way Coin Mechanism Pay to Get Out Required City Authorization Lacking for Plan, Devised to Avoid Deficit in Operation Spur Held Separate Line Road to Cost $2,000,000". The New York Times. August 27, 1938. Archived from the original on September 30, 2023. Retrieved July 7, 2015.

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[The_New_York_Times_1938-4] "World's Fair Spur May Charge Dime; Independent Subway Link to Have Turnstiles With 2-Way Coin Mechanism Pay to Get Out Required City Authorization Lacking for Plan, Devised to Avoid Deficit in Operation Spur Held Separate Line Road to Cost $2,000,000". The New York Times. August 27, 1938. Archived from the original on September 30, 2023. Retrieved July 7, 2015.

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