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Franklin Avenue
We board a Euclid Avenue-bound 
train and take it to
Franklin Avenue. An elevator takes us up to the Street level area, which has the
fare control. The tiles here are similar to those at the Botanic Garden station (listed
below.) The next stop on this elevator is where one could find the bridge to
the Manhattan-bound platform. After that is the last stop on this elevator: the
Franklin Avenue Shuttle platform. When leaving the elevator, one notices the stained glass
windows. The area has one track and one platform which is located to the geographic
west side of the track. (All pictures by Roberto M. Marrero 17 November 1999, unless
otherwise noted.) After Franklin Avenue, we pass the area where Dean Street was before the
rehabilitation of the line.
Park Place
After the place where it would be appropriate to put a sign saying "Dean Street Station was here," comes the Park Place station. It has a platform/track configuration similar to the Franklin Avenue station, but the fare control is at platform level, with a bridge seperating the platform and the fare control area.
Botanic Garden
(The two pictures on the right were taken on 24 November 1999 by Roberto M. Marrero.)
South of Park Place, the single track line splits
into two tracks. They then enter a tunnel which leads to the Botanic Garden station. This
station has two wall platforms and, obviously, two tracks.
There is a transfer here to the Brooklyn IRT (
) at the north end of the
northbound platform.
The people who worked on this station really did a good job cleaning it up. New tiles:
lime green with cream yellow and marroon borders on the name tablets, and lime green and
cream yellow accents.
At the south end of the southbound platform, there is a route selector box, where
operators make a choice as to where the train is going. The two choices are: TRACK O1 and
TRACK O2. (Those are letter O's, not zeroes.) The default is O2, which puts trains on the
northbound track. O1 takes trains through the tunnel where the Malbone Street wreck
occured. The next and last stop is Prospect Park. Transfer is there to the BMT Brighton
line (
).
Franklin Av Shuttle Station
by Station
This link will take you to a description and photos of what the Franklin Avenue Shuttle looked like before the reconstruction, and some more pics of the line now.
Scroll down a little bit to see it.