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The Central Branch is a rail line owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) in the U.S. state of New York, extending from just east of Bethpage station to just west of Babylon It was built in 1873 as part of the Babylon Extension of the Central Railroad of Long Island (CRRLI), which was owned by Alexander Turney Stewart .
From 1873 until 1876, the Central Railroad of Long Island had a regularly scheduled stop also named Central Park near Stewart Avenue and Motor Lane in Plainedge, approximately 0.75 miles (1.21 km) south of the present station. [10] [11] [12] Service was continued by the LIRR at that location until about 1924.
Between the 1970s and 1990s, freight traffic into Long Island City also decreased, [14] [15] and in the 1990s, the MTA ceased freight operations with the sale of the LIRR's freight division to the New York and Atlantic Railway. [16] As a result, the Montauk Cutoff saw less use and began to fall into disrepair. [14]
[8] [9] In June 2010, the Long Island Rail Road broke ground on a new environmentally friendly train wash canopy, as at the time, the Mid-Suffolk Yard adjacent to the Ronkonkoma station had the only train wash on the east end. This new train wash can recycle water using filters and is capable of washing up to 180 electric multiple unit cars a day.
The old Central main line through Hempstead was named the Central Branch by the LIRR, while the line from Mineola on the LIRR's Main Line south past Hempstead Crossing to Hempstead was the Hempstead Branch. [12] The New York Bay Extension Railroad opened the current West Hempstead Branch in 1893, [13] resulting in a realignment of the Hempstead ...
New York City Subway: 7 and <7> (at Hunters Point Avenue) New York City Bus: B62 MTA Bus: Q67 Served only by 11 AM peak trains and 10 PM peak trains daily [154] Woodside, Queens Woodside: 3.1 (5.0) 1869 [155] Long Island Rail Road: Port Washington Branch New York City Subway: 7 and <7> (at 61st Street–Woodside) New York City Bus: Q32
New York City Subway: 7 and <7> (at Hunters Point Avenue), G (at 21st Street) New York City Bus: B62 MTA Bus: Q67 Woodside, Queens: Woodside: Long Island Rail Road: Port Washington Branch New York City Subway: 7 and <7> at (61st Street–Woodside) New York City Bus: Q32 MTA Bus: Q18, Q53 SBS, Q70 SBS Forest Hills, Queens: Forest Hills
The Port Washington Branch is an electrified, mostly double-tracked rail line and service owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in the U.S. state of New York.It branches north from the Main Line at the former Winfield Junction station, just east of the Woodside station in the New York City borough of Queens, and runs roughly parallel to Northern Boulevard past Mets-Willets Point ...