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Re: (rshsdepot) MTA Is Correcting Its Neglect of New York City LIRR Stations
Last through passenger train Oyster Bay to Hempstead -1908 (1893-1908)
I can't find yet about the Mineola to Valley Stream train or Mineola to Far
Rockaway, nor Far Rockaway to Oyster Bay train that I think once
existed...didn't someone write about these last year? I found the following
while looking:
Last year for LIRR Manhattan Beach branch extension to Gravesend (Racetrack)
1909...this went two blocks east [just thought I'd throw that in]..
I correct that:
Long Island City to Gravesend track train: LIC to Fresh Pond Jct. via NY &MB
branch (Bay Ridge branch) to Parkville to connect w/ PP&CI RR train to
racetrack to 1909..
OK is this the same route or were there two of them via MB to Gravesend?
no
... via PP&CI from 1891:
1889 to 1891 - 0.6 mile extension from MB branch at Gravesend Avenue to
Gravesend Racetrack just east of New York & South Brooklyn RR line (this is
same as the PP&CI (I think) which was the Culver Line)
[Bay Ridge passenger service abandoned after purchase of the South Brooklyn
RR 1893 (1897?)
Last electric to Roosevelt Racetrack - 1957
I can't find the Oyster Bay to Far Rockaway or Mineola to East Rockaway
dates...there also was Mineola to Valley Stream I thought...it is too late
to search for that...that may have gone to 20's or 30's or 40's?
Paul
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Subject: Re: (rshsdepot) MTA Is Correcting Its Neglect of New York City LIRR
Stations
> Paul
> As long as I can remember (1950"s), there were no passenger trains running
> past West Hempstead towards Country Life Press, only freights. There was a
> shuttle from CLP to Mitchel Field on what is now the Garden City
secondary.
> Way earlier there were "trolleys" that ran there. See "Steel Rails to the
> Sunrise" for pictures of them. Then as now, the stations on that branch
are
> West Hempstead, Hemptead Gardens, Lakeview, Malverne, Westwood and then
> Valley Stream. (See the current schedule).
> Dick Horn
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> The Railroad Station Historical Society maintains a database of existing
> railroad structures at: http://www.rrshs.org
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