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The station was established in October 1880 with the opening of the New York and Long Beach Railroad (NY&LB), on the west side of Ocean Avenue and the east side of the tracks, and contained a freight house that was built between October 1 and November 5, 1880. [5] The station became part of the LIRR system in 1909, when the NY&LB merged with ...
Schematic diagram of Long Island Rail Road services and stations. The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) is a commuter railway system serving all four counties of Long Island, with two stations in the Manhattan borough of New York City in the U.S. state of New York. Its operator is the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York.
The station was opened in 1898 by the New York and Long Beach Railroad and originally was known as South Lynbrook station until 1924. [5]Centre Avenue station was originally located a block to the west and had a station house, but was moved east when high-level platforms were installed in the late 1960s in order to facilitate the new M1 railcars.
The East 180th Street Yard is situated at 1145 East 180th Street in the West Farms neighborhood of the Bronx, just east of the Bronx Zoo. The yard consists of seven storage tracks (numbered 4 thru 10) and an adjacent 6-track (numbered 11 thru 16) shop building with a connection to the nearby 19-track Unionport Yard, which lies to the northeast ...
The Rockaway Railway was incorporated September 5, 1871 to continue from Far Rockaway west to Rockaway Point, [12] and opened July 4, 1872 to Beach 103rd Street at Seaside, [10]. Both companies were merged into the South Side on September 14, 1872, along with the Hunters Point and South Side and New York and Flushing. [10]
The Cedarhurst Cut-off was a rail line owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in the U.S. state of New York.The line split from the LIRR's Main Line at Rockaway Junction (near Hollis) and ran south via Springfield Gardens and Cedarhurst and on to Far Rockaway.
Inwood is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Far Rockaway Branch in Inwood, Nassau County, New York. The station is located at Doughty Boulevard (CR 75) and Brunswick Avenue (formerly Foote Avenue).
Most of the Rockaway Line dates back to the 1880s when it was operated as the New York, Woodhaven and Rockaway Railroad; [11] the Far Rockaway station had been in operation since 1869 as part of the South Side Railroad of Long Island. [12] In 1892, the line first saw service by the Long Island Rail Road from its Atlantic Branch.