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The current station building was built in 1909 and was renovated by the Long Island Rail Road for its centennial. [ 5 ] On October 19, 1970, a project to electrify the Port Jefferson Branch up to Huntington was completed, following the completion of a project to install high-level platforms at the station. [ 7 ]
The first phase of what is now known as the Oyster Bay Branch opened on January 23, 1865. The line was built by the Glen Cove Branch Rail Road, a subsidiary of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR), which was incorporated on December 3, 1858. [5] The line was built as a branch of the LIRR's Main Line from Mineola, and extended to Glen Head. [6]
Hicksville station is a commuter rail station on the Main Line and Port Jefferson Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, located in Hicksville, New York. It is the busiest station east of Jamaica and Penn Station by combined weekday/weekend ridership. The station is located at Newbride Road (NY 106) and West Barclay Street.
Long Beach station was originally built in 1880 by the New York and Long Beach Railroad, however it was much closer to the Atlantic Ocean than the present station. The site was surrounded by Broadway, Penn Street, Edwards Boulevard and Riverside Boulevard, and served the grand Long Beach Hotel, [ 6 ] which Austin Corbin claimed was the world's ...
The Richmond Hill station was originally built by the South Side Railroad of Long Island in 1869 as the Clarenceville station. After New York City and the Long Island Rail Road began negotiating the elimination of numerous at-grade crossings within Queens in the 1910s, the current station was opened on a viaduct in 1923.
West of Islip Station, the South Side Railroad of Long Island (SSRRLI), once had an additional station called Islip Centre station. LIRR timetables from 1869 indicate it was at or near Brentwood Road, [3] 1.5 miles east of the Bay Shore station. [4] The station may have been used for members of the Olympic Boat Club. Islip Centre Station was ...
When the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad opened in April 1836, under lease to the LIRR, [4]: 44 it did not include a station at East New York. [5] The LIRR began stopping at East New York by early 1843, [ 6 ] eventually stopping at the Howard House at Alabama Avenue, shared with all the other horse car and steam lines into East New York. [ 7 ]
Montauk is the terminus of the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, as well as the easternmost railroad station on Long Island and in New York state. The station is located on Edgemere Street ( Suffolk County Route 49 ) and Fort Pond Road west of Montauk Harbor, New York .