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It was originally named "Hyde Park" station, and was rebuilt in 1870. Despite Hyde Park changing its name to "New Hyde Park" in March 1871 in order to avoid confusion with another Hyde Park in Dutchess County, the LIRR kept the original name of the station until September 1904. The 1870-built station was located along the eastbound tracks with ...
The station closed in October 1876, but was reopened by the LIRR in June 1878 as "Hyde Park Central" station, only to be abandoned on April 30, 1879. [4] The station was reopened again as "Stewart Manor Station" in 1909, and included such features as a "foot subway", [ 5 ] crossing gates at New Hyde Park Road, and an "SW Cabin" for controlling ...
The LIRR has an amalgam of different station house designs across its system. Many station houses built during the same time period (e.g., Mineola and Manhasset ; 1920s), or as part of the same project (e.g., Central Islip and Deer Park ; 1987 Hicksville–Ronkonkoma electrification project), share similar or identical designs.
On October 8, 2016, a commuter LIRR train side-swiped a maintenance train east of New Hyde Park station. The commuter train cars suffered damage and 33 passengers were injured, four of them seriously injured. [187] On January 4, 2017, a Long Island Rail Road commuter train derailed at Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn. At least 103 people were injured.
New Hyde Park: New Hyde Park: 16.2 (26.1) c. 1837 Nassau Inter-County Express: n24, n25/58 Originally named Hyde Park Garden City Park: Merillon Avenue: 17.3 (27.8) 1837 Originally named Clowesville, then Garden City Mineola: Mineola: 18.6 (29.9) 1837 [76] Long Island Rail Road: Ronkonkoma, Montauk, Oyster Bay branches
The order also includes additional options for up to 144 more locomotives, of which 66 could go to the LIRR. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] As a part of the Long Island Railroad's Capital Program, the railroad is exercising Option 3 of the previously awarded contract to order up to 44 new dual-mode locomotives, which would likely replace the older DE30AC and ...
The project adds a new 9.8-mile express track between the Floral Park and Hicksville stations, which enables new express service on LIRR trains in and out of Jamaica Terminal as well as more ...
Manorville station originally opened on July 29, 1844 as "St. George’s Manor" station, [1] and later shortened to "Manor Station." According to local history, the first station agent, Seth Raynor, who was a patriot during the American Revolutionary War, painted over the "St. George’s," leaving "Manor" exposed, because it reminded him of colonial domination.