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West Hempstead Station was rebuilt in 1928 on the north side of Hempstead Avenue and relocated onto the south side of the road on September 15, 1935. The 1935 station house ran directly along a loop driveway in front of Hempstead Avenue with a canopy leading from the back door to a second canopy along the platform of the tracks.
The West Hempstead Branch is an electrified rail line owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR). It runs between Valley Stream and West Hempstead , in Nassau County , New York , United States.
With 324 passenger route-miles, [3] it spans Long Island from Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn to Montauk station at the tip of the southern fork. Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan is the actual westernmost station of the Long Island Rail Road and its busiest station. The system currently has 126 stations on eleven rail lines called "branches".
When Hempstead Gardens station was originally built in 1893 by the New York Bay Extension Railroad, it was little more than a small one-room shack with open canopies extending along the northbound platform. [3] In 1926, upon the West Hempstead Branch being electrified, the Hempstead Gardens station began serving electric trains. [4]
The Hempstead Branch is an electrified rail line and service owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in the U.S. state of New York.The branch begins at the Main Line at Queens Interlocking, just east of Queens Village station.
Lakeview is a station along the West Hempstead Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. It is located on the southeast corner of Eagle Avenue & Woodfield Road in West Hempstead, New York – one of three stations located in the community. Hempstead Lake State Park is nearby. The former Southern Hempstead Branch crossed the line north of this ...
The Country Life Press station is a Long Island Rail Road within the village of Garden City, New York. It serves trains on the Hempstead Branch and is located on Damson Street and St. James Street South.
The Rosa Parks Hempstead Transit Center is an intermodal center and transportation hub in Hempstead, New York.It contains the Nassau Inter-County Express bus system's indoor customer facility between Jackson and West Columbia Streets – as well as the terminus for the Hempstead Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, located right across West Columbia Street from the bus terminal.