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The platforms, as viewed looking east from the 61st Street–Woodside station. Woodside originally had two railroad stations. One was built in 1861 on 60th Street by the LIRR subsidiary New York and Jamaica Railroad; the other, larger station was built by the Flushing and North Side Railroad on November 15, 1869, and was the first to be built by the F&NS after acquiring the troubled New York ...
The 61st Street–Woodside station (announced as the Woodside–61st Street station on trains) is an express station on the IRT Flushing Line of the New York City Subway located at 61st Street and Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside, Queens. It is served by the 7 train, with additional peak-direction <7> service during rush hours.
The New York Central Railroad (reporting mark NYC) was a railroad primarily operating in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The railroad primarily connected greater New York and Boston in the east with Chicago and St. Louis in the Midwest, along with the intermediate cities of Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit, Rochester and Syracuse.
The Flushing and North Side Railroad was a former railroad on Long Island built by Conrad Poppenhusen as a replacement for the former New York and Flushing Railroad.The railroad was established in 1868, was merged with the Central Railroad of Long Island in 1874 to form the Flushing, North Shore and Central Railroad, and was finally acquired by the Long Island Rail Road in 1876.
Its operator is the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York. Serving 301,763 passengers per day as of 2007 [1] and 88.5 million riders for the year of 2008, [2] it is the busiest commuter railroad in the United States.
Plans to close the station can be traced as far back as 1910, [2] but the station was closed and then razed in 1929, making Woodside Station the transfer point between Main Line and Port Washington Branch trains. Winfield station map, 1891. South is at the top. Railroad Avenue was the old New York and Flushing Railroad line.
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 ...
New York Central Railroad: Syracuse and Utica Direct Railroad: NYC: 1853 1853 New York Central Railroad: Terminal Railway of Buffalo: NYC: 1895 1914 New York Central Railroad: Ticonderoga Railroad: D&H: 1889 1957 Delaware and Hudson Railroad: Tioga Railroad: ERIE: 1876 1885 New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad: Tioga Central Railroad: TIOC ...