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Re: (rshsdepot) MTA Is Correcting Its Neglect of New York City LIRR Stations
Was there an actual Centre Avenue station building?
Paul
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Guthrie" <jguthrie_@_pipeline.com>
To: <rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 10:50 PM
Subject: Re: (rshsdepot) MTA Is Correcting Its Neglect of New York City LIRR
Stations
> The East Rockaway station is indeed pretty new. Originally, it was located
> at Davison Plaza, just west of the Ocean Avenue crossing; The tracks then
> crossed a long stretch of open marsh, with a bridge across the "River" and
> then another station at Atlantic Avenue just south of that crossing.
Around
> 1950, the "new" East Rockaway station was built -- and the platforms
> extended all the way from Ocean Avenue to Atlantic Avenue. IIRC, they were
> something like 15 car lengths long. The "official" distance between
stations
> was about 2/10 of a mile.
>
> This length was cut when the high level platforms were installed c1970.
The
> areas of the marsh is all filled in and has been a shopping center in
> various forms since the early 1960s.
>
> The crossings were both still operated by gatemen when I was a kid hanging
> out (as was the crossing at Centre Avenue). later, when I worked for the
> LIRR, Centre Avenue (and Malverne) had Monday-only ticket clerks, working
> out of Lynbrook with a suitcase of stock. Centre Avenue was the pits --
and
> smelled like a sewer. Malverne was decent -- shared with the taxi company.
> East Rockaway was still new, but smelled like a urinal even then. I sold
> tickets at all those stations.
>
> Oceanside was hit by a fire around 1959, and was demolished. I have a LI
> Press newspaper clip of the station being torn down.
>
> "Queenswater, next!"
>
> Cheers,
> Jim
>
>
>
> From: "Paul Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>
>
> > Here they knocked down the East Rockaway station a few years ago
(nothing
> > special but it did have a pot belly stove inside, it must have been a
50's
> > structure though...
> >
> > Yet they just built a new station at Oceanside next down the line where
> > there hasn't been one since I lived here (about 25 years) and not that
> bad
> > looking either...
> >
> > No station replaced the one in East Rockaway..seems inconsistent..maybe
> > because the Oceanside stop is near other businesses...
> >
>
>
>
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> railroad structures at: http://www.rrshs.org
>
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