238 Street (1) - The SubwayNut

238 Street is the second to last stop before the 242 Street-Van Courtlandt Park terminal. The 1 train's main train yard at 240 Street is located between these two stations (accessible via a flat level junction with the yard tracks forming a wye allowing trains to enter the yard from both diretions) this means some rush hour trains (in both the AM, but fewer early in the PM rush hour) originate at the station, but none terminate here (short-turns to be "put into" the yard terminate at 215 Street and then deadhead via the middle track).

The stop has the standard two side platforms for the three track line. These platforms and their station houses are slighlty offset from each other with the 242 Street-bound platform running less than a car length longer than the Manhattan-bound platform. The station houses are also slightly offset from each other, both located towards the northern end of each platform (be in the second car from the front to get off at 238 Street).

The Uptown, 242 Street-bound platform is Exit Only. It is canopied for about half it's length. It has two exits, each accessed by a single High Exit Turnstile located on each side of a red-painted station house no longer in public use, each High Exit Turnstile leads down to a streetstair to the NE and SE corners of 238 Street and Broadway.

Entering passengers, must use a single streetstair at the SW corner of Broadway and 238 Street, right near the triangle formed with the nothern end of Kingsbridge Avenue. This streetstair leads up to a passageway along a small station house away from the platform. After entering the Downtown platform, passengers have a shorter canopy than the uptown platform, covering about the most northern two cars.
Photos 1-6: September 7, 2003; 7 & 8: December 21, 2003; 9-11: June 9, 2004; 12 & 13: June 24, 2004; 14-16: April 25, 2004; 17-19: November 6, 2004; 20-35: December 31, 2010; 36-41: March 26, 2013;

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Looking south down the northbound platform at 238 Street (1), the windscreen ends and the platform gets very narrow.

A column supporting the canopy at 238 Street

The exits on the northbound platform at 238 Street (1), are only high exit gates. There is no way to board a northbound train.

Looking down one of two staircases to street from the northbound platform at 238 Street (1)

An exit from the northbound 238 Street (1) platform at street level

A 1 train (R-62A) enters 238 Street.

The complex switching into 242 Street viewed from 238 Street (1).

R62A #2270 signed for the 9 train has left 238 Street to deal with the train traffic to enter the 242 Street Terminal

R62A #2270 signed for the 9 train has left 238 Street to deal with the train traffic to enter the 242 Street Terminal

An uptown R62A 1 train bypasses 238 Street on the center track because of construction

A downtown R62A 1 train passes an uptown R62A 1 train on the center track just north of 238 Street

R33-ML #9017 leads the Trian of Many Colors on a fan trip making it's way up the center track of the Broadway Line to go through 238 Street

R33-ML #9017 bypassing 238 Street

he SMEE train of many colors makes its way through 238 Street

R62 #2280 leads a not in service train down the center track at 238 Street, heading to the train yard

A Not In Service train of R62s makes it's way into the 240th Street Yard

Looking out at 238 Street viewed from a train on the center track

Walking down Broadway, approaching the start of the 238 Street platform, still with the little square 1 from the skip-stop days (the 9 train ended 5 years ago)

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