NYCA || R160 (W) Train Announcements To Gravesend 86th Street || Via Broadway Local

Credit: ​⁠‪@Mtaiscool18ds‬ & ​⁠‪@MrRailfan‬ for the announcement’s + 86 Street bound (W) Train Announcement
P.S, The W was originally conceived as an extra Broadway Line local service running on the Astoria and Broadway lines to Whitehall Street in Manhattan. This service was essentially a variant of the N route, which in the 1970s and 1980s ran express on the Broadway Line between Forest Hills-71st Avenue in Queens and Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue in Brooklyn. At the time, some N trains (until 1976 designated EE) were designated with a diamond N bullet, ran local on Broadway, and traveled only between Forest Hills and Whitehall Street. The Manhattan Bridge, between Manhattan and Brooklyn, contains four subway tracks: a northern pair for the IND Sixth Avenue Line and a southern pair for the BMT Broadway Line. Repairs to the bridge forced the N, which normally ran express on the Broadway Line and via the bridge, to run local via the Montague Street Tunnel starting in 1986. The south tracks were closed completely for repairs from 1988 to 2001. This service change precluded W local service from running as envisioned. The W bullet appeared on older roll signs as a yellow diamond bullet, while newer roll signs featured the modern round bullet. The W also appeared on the digital signs of the R44s and R46s with any route and destination combination that could be used for the Broadway Line. Plans for the W train were announced in late 2000, when the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced that the Manhattan Bridge's south tracks would reopen and that the north tracks would be closed. (W) Train service began on July 22, 2001. Service began operating between Coney Island and Astoria-Ditmars Boulevard, Queens, via the West End Local and Fourth Avenue Express in Brooklyn; the Manhattan Bridge south tracks; Broadway Express (switching to the local tracks to serve 49th Street) in Manhattan; and the 60th Street Tunnel and BMT Astoria Line in Queens. The W ran express on the Astoria Line during weekday daytime hours in the peak direction between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m., and local at all other times. Trains ran express to Manhattan between 6 a.m. and 1 p.m., and to Astoria from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. Evening service terminated at 57th Street-Seventh Avenue in Manhattan (using the express tracks and bypassing 49th Street), while late night and weekend evening service operated as a shuttle within Brooklyn only, terminating at 36th Street during late nights and Atlantic Avenue-Pacific Street on weekends. When the Manhattan Bridge's north tracks were restored to service on February 22, 2004, the W was curtailed to its current service pattern, running weekdays only from 7:00 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. as an entirely local service between Astoria-Ditmars Boulevard and Whitehall Street-South Ferry, Lower Manhattan. The Brooklyn portion was replaced by the D, which was extended over the north side of the bridge and down the West End Line. On July 27, 2008, the W was extended to operate until 11:00 p.m. in response to growth in the subway system's ridership. The (W) was originally eliminated on June 25th 2010 but was restored on November 7th 2016.
🟡🟡 Stops:
Astoria Ditmars Blvd
Astoria Blvd M60 SBS LGA ♿️
30th Avenue
Broadway
36th Avenue
39th Avenue
Queensboro Plaza 🟣🟣 [🔵🟢🟡🟠 at Queens Plaza]
Lexington Avenue 59th Street 🟢🟢🟢🟢🟡 [🟠🟡 at Lexington Avenue 63rd Street]
5th Avenue 59th Street
57th Street 7th Avenue 🟡🟡 ♿️
49th Street [♿️ Northbound Only]
Times Square 42nd Street 🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🟣🟣🔵🔵🔵🔵🟠🟠🟠🟠🟡🟡⚪️ PABT ♿️
34th Street Herald Square 🟠🟠🟠🟠🟡🟡 M34 SBS PATH ♿️
28th Street
23rd Street M23 SBS
14th Street Union Square 🟢🟢🟢🟢⚪️🟡🟡 M14 SBS ♿️
8th Street New York University
Prince Street
Canal Street 🟢🟢🟤🟤🟤🟡🟡 🛗
City Hall [🟢🟢🟢🟢🟤🟤🟤 at Brooklyn Bridge/Chambers Street]
Cortlandt Street 🔴🔴🔵🔵🔵🔵 PATH ♿️
Rector Street [🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🟢🟢🟤🟤🟤 at Wall Street/Broad Street]
Whitehall Street South Ferry 🔴🔴 M15 SBS ⛴ 🛗
Court Street 🔴🔴🟢🟢🟤🟤🟤 🛗
Jay Street Metro Tech 🔵🔵🔵🟠🟠🟤🟤🟤 ♿️
DeKalb Avenue 🟠🟡🟤🟤🟤 ♿️
Atlantic Avenue Barclays Center 🔴🔴🟢🟢🟠🟠🟤🟤🟤🟡🟡 LIRR ♿️
Union Street
9th Street 🟢🟠
Prospect Avenue
25th Street
36th Street 🟠🟤🟡
45th Street
53rd Street
59th Street 🟡 ♿️
8th Avenue ♿️
Fort Hamilton Parkway
New Utrecht Avenue 🟠🟤 ♿️
18th Avenue
20th Avenue
Bay Parkway
Kings Highway B82 SBS
Avenue U
Gravesend 86th Street

[@aszaviyovarga1711]

I rode an R160 Siemens W train back in 2018, but I hadn't caught it on video on the N and W lines randomly, but I have caught it on the Q line during morning rush hrs and on the R line a lot.

[@renemelendez5285]

W train ❤