Parkchester

Parkchester is an express station on the IRT Pelham Line of the New York City Subway. The station opened on May 27, 1920. It is located in the Bronx at the intersection of the Cross-Bronx Expressway service roads, Metropolitan Avenue, and Westchester Avenue, atop Hugh J. Grant Circle. It is served by the 6 train at all times and the <6> train during weekdays in the peak direction. By passenger count, Parkchester is the third-busiest station in the Bronx in 2015, behind 161st Street–Yankee Stadium and Third Avenue–149th Street, which are, respectively, the busiest and second-busiest stations.Station layoutParkchester is an express station with three tracks and two island platforms. There are 1950s-style mushroom-shaped lights at the end of the platforms and the staircases to the mezzanine are sheltered. Just north of the station is a signal tower which was used until the late 1990s, when a new master tower was created in Westchester Yard. This station was rehabilitated in 2010.When <6> express trains operate, 6 local trains terminate here. <6> express trains always stop on the center track and 6 local trains always stop on the outer track, even when they terminate there. Trains use the switches north of the station to get to their respective track. Terminating trains use the center track past those switches as a pocket track to relay.