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The South Side Railroad of Long Island was a railroad company in the U.S. state of New York.Chartered in 1860 and first opened in 1867 as a competitor to the Long Island Rail Road, it was reorganized in 1874 as the Southern Railroad of Long Island and leased in 1876 to the LIRR.
The South Side Railroad of Long Island, which crossed the LIRR's Atlantic Branch at 130th Street, opened Van Wyck Avenue (pronounced Van Wick) station on the south side of its line in June 1869, almost a year after the line opened.
The LIRR built the B-Tower at Beth Interlocking in 1925 to replace hand-operated switching between the tracks. Bethpage was also the name of the northern terminus of the former Bethpage Branch from Bethpage Junction to the former Bethpage Brickworks in the community now called Old Bethpage , but which was called Bethpage until 1936.
In 1882, the LIRR attempted to extend the former Flushing and North Side Railroad main line from the Great Neck station to the Roslyn station. This proposal dates back to an F&NS subsidiary, called the "Roslyn and Huntington Railroad". The proposal ultimately failed, and that line was instead extended to Port Washington in 1898.
Traffic & Transit Dreamed-Of Sunnyside LIRR, Metro-North Station To Be Studied By MTA A long-ago-promised commuter rail station in Sunnyside will finally be studied more closely by the MTA as East ...
A quarter of the $2,500,000 cost of the elimination of the five crossings was paid for by the State, while the cost of the new streets carried across the rail line was paid for by the City and the LIRR. The cost of four-tracking the line, and the construction of stations and other facilities was paid for by the LIRR.
LIRR Rolls Out Updated TrainTime App, Notification System - Hicksville, NY - New screens, announcements, and TrainTime updates with real-time train info will address social distancing concerns ...
The Mineola Intermodal Center is an intermodal center and transportation hub in the village of Mineola, Nassau County, New York, U.S.It contains the Mineola Long Island Rail Road station – one of the railroad's busiest stations – in addition to one of the Nassau Inter-County Express bus system's main hubs, located adjacent to the southern train platform.