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| | History of the IRT, BMT, and IND Subway Lines |
 | | The names IRT, BMT, and IND were the names of the three competing transit agencies prior to city takeover in the 1940s. |
 | | The IRT is today's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and S. The Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit (BMT, formerly the Brooklyn Rapid Transit, BRT) was the rapid transit company which built, bought, or assumed control of the Brooklyn Els. |
 | | The Dual Contracts IRT lines were the Seventh Avenue (south from Times Square) and Lexington Avenue (north from Grand Central) lines, the Jerome, White Plains Road, and Pelham Bay Park branches in the Bronx, and the Brooklyn lines beyond Atlantic Avenue. |
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