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The LIRR's history stretches back to the Brooklyn and Jamaica Rail Road, incorporated on April 25, 1832 to build a ten-mile line from the East River in Brooklyn through the communities of Brooklyn, Bedford, and East New York to Jamaica.
The Long Island Rail Road Company was chartered in 1834 to provide a daily service between New York City and Boston via a ferry connection between its Greenport, New York, terminal on Long Island's North Fork and Stonington, Connecticut.
History. When the LIRR began operations in 1836, it leased the newly opened Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad, including its two duplicate steam locomotives, Ariel and Post Boy, both built by Matthias W. Baldwin. (Ariel was Baldwin's 19th engine, built in 1835.)
Also known as Central Junction. Shared by the Main Line of the Flushing and North Side Railroad (now the Port Washington Branch of the LIRR), and Central RR of Long Island. Opened July 1873, and abandoned April 30, 1879. Located west of Flushing–Main Street station near Whitestone Expressway.
History. The line was conceived and surveyed in 1854. In 1869 LIRR president Oliver Charlick wanted the branch to head off plans by the South Side Railroad to extend their line beyond Patchogue. A map of the branch can be seen along with the proposed SSRRLI extension from Patchogue.
On September 8, 1910, the line between Long Island City and Jamaica was electrified, and service to Pennsylvania Station was inaugurated. Initially, service consisted of 101 trains in each direction to the Hempstead, Far Rockaway and Long Beach branches.
The LIRR leased its property in 1897, and formally merged with the New York Bay Extension Railroad on August 29, 1902. The West Hempstead Branch originally extended beyond its current terminus and through Hempstead. It connected with the current day Hempstead Branch at Country Life Press.
Long Island Rail Road: Operator(s) Long Island Rail Road: History; Opened: 1880 (LIRR) 1956 (subway; south of Liberty Avenue and Rockaway Boulevard) Closed: 1950 (Liberty Avenue–Rockaway Peninsula) 1962 (Liberty Avenue–Rego Park) Technical; Line length: 4.8 miles (7.7 km) Track gauge: 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge: Operating ...
History; Opened: November 15, 1869; 154 years ago () (F&NS) Closed: 1914; 110 years ago () Rebuilt: 1915; 109 years ago (), 1999; 25 years ago () Electrified: June 16, 1910; 113 years ago () 750 V third rail: Passengers; 2012—2014: 7,172: Rank: 15 of 126: Services
The Bethpage Branch was a branch of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR), running from the present-day split between the Ronkonkoma Branch and Central Branch (then called the Bethpage Junction and now called Bethpage Interlocking) north about miles (2.8 km) to present-day Old Bethpage, New York .