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Riverhead is a station along the Main Line (Greenport Branch) of the Long Island Rail Road. It is located on Osborne Avenue and Railroad Street in Riverhead, New York , north of NY 25 (West Main Street) and the Suffolk County Court House .
The first rail service in the area was the Atlantic Branch of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) at East New York station. The line opened as the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad in 1836, under lease to the LIRR, but did not include a station at East New York until early 1843. [ 7 ]
The station opened in 1910 to provide access to Manhattan from New Jersey without having to use a ferry, making the Pennsy the only railroad to enter New York City from the south. The station was served by the Pennsy's own trains as well as those of its subsidiary, the Long Island Rail Road. Infamously, the station's headhouse was demolished ...
Trains used to be controlled by signal towers at interlockings, but this was eventually phased out in favor of master towers. [3] [4] Eventually, these master towers were replaced by a single rail control center: [3] the New York City Transit Power Control Center in Midtown Manhattan. [5]
Speonk is an unmanned railroad station on the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. It is located on Phillips Avenue at Depot Road in Speonk, New York, just north of Montauk Highway . The station has two parking lots, one operated by the Long Island Rail Road, and the other operated by the Town of Southampton, both
Islip LIRR timetable; Steve Lynch's LIRR Maps, Photos, Charts, etc., (TrainsAreFun.com): Islip Depot (Various Historic and Contemporary Images) Islip Freight Sightings; Old Islip Depot Photo (Arrt's Arrchives) Unofficial LIRR History Website (May 2007 Photos) View of Station House; Clock Tower with Locomotive & Tender Weather Vane
Far Rockaway station was originally built by the South Side Railroad of Long Island on July 29, 1869. From 1872 to 1877, the station was located in close proximity to the southern terminus of the LIRR's Cedarhurst Cut-off.
The Richmond Hill station is a closed station on the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Rail Road in the Richmond Hill neighborhood of Queens in New York City.The station is located at Myrtle Avenue and cuts diagonally from the intersection of Jamaica Avenue and Lefferts Boulevard through to Hillside Avenue.