OYSTER BAY BRANCH  
 

LIRR Employee Timetable No.4 page VI 5/14/2012

Oyster Bay Branch LIRR Track Profile Map 

LIRR Nassau Interlocking sheet 36 Revised 6/11/57 and corrected 12/01/57 Archive: Art Huneke

Robert Emery maps 1958 Oyster Bay Branch MP19-23 Composite: Steven Lynch

Built: c 1880. Agency Closed: 12/10/96 Razed: 12/11/2004  

East Williston view SE c.1960 (Sturm-Fehn)

Built: 1913, Agency Closed  Razed: 1954
Shelter Shed Built: C. 1954
Ticket Office added to one end of Shelter Shed: ? 
Monday-Only Agency Indicated in "Long Island Rail Road Ticket Office Hours" Listing of 9/18/67.  Agency Closed: ?
Replaced With New Shelter Shed: 19 ?

Opened: 1/23/1865, remodeled and moved: Summer/1885 to accommodate a new Freight Station
2nd Depot Built: June-July/1887
Depot moved to west side of Lincoln Ave. (N. Side Of Tracks) to improve visibility of roadway traffic: 1988
Agency Closed: ?

Greenvale

Freight station in use as early as 1866 on timetable in 1875 only. Back on timetable during 1880s and 1890s as stop primarily for milk trains. 

Shelter shed built: ?, No agency. May, 1891 newspaper
account describes the shed which shortly after was demolished by 4-4-0 locomotive #112 when it derailed on 5/17/1891 after hitting a horse whose foot got stuck in the switch points. The engine made it over the switch but the cars derailed causing the loco to roll over, demolishing the shed and trapping the engine crew underneath the engine killing both men. (per Vincent F. Seyfried, historian and John Hammond, Town of Oyster Bay historian)

2nd Shelter shed built: ? No data or photo evidence as to anything being constructed on site between 1891 and 1921.

3rd (?) Shelter shed built: 1921 (per Robert Emery notes) 1937 photos (below) show two mail cranes on north (R.R. east) side of the shelter for mail pick-up in each direction. Crushed cinder platforms with Dietz kerosene platform lamps. Electric lamps and paved platforms added in later years. Razed: 1991.

4th (?) shelter shed with hi-level platforms built: 1991  Research: Dave Keller

Emery map Greenvale MP24-25 5/1958 Archive: Dave Keller

Glen Head

Original depot opened: 1/23/1865
2nd depot opened: 5/1888
Out of service: 4/61 with opening of new depot. old unused depot stood for awhile afterwards and was razed
3rd depot in service: 4/61. agency closed: ?

Note: The ticket office at the far left with screens on the door and window and none on the waiting room at the right, the flower boxes under all the windows, and the mid-track fence with the pedestrian at-grade crossing. Dave Keller 

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 Glen Head, Locust Ave. freight westbound - LIRR MP15ACs #151
 6/05/1979 Photo: Terry Guy Archive: Rick Imparato

Sea Cliff

Opened: 5/16/1867
2nd Depot opened: 5/1888. Agency closed: ?
Portion of eastward station facilities west of Sea Cliff Ave. out of service and removed: 12/16/83

Emery map Sea Cliff MP26-27
Archive: Dave Keller

Peter Hay Stage Line coach ticket 1900
Photo/Archive: Dave Morrison

Sea Cliff Station line drawing
Artist: James Montelione
Archive: Dave Morrison

Sea Cliff Station 6/2022
Photo/Archive: Dave Morrison

Sea Cliff Station - View N 1910 Photo: Henry Otto Korten Archive: Sea Cliff Museum

Sea Cliff Station post card
Photo/Archive: Dave Morrison

Sea Cliff Station 6/2022
The B&B department (now known as "Structures") is currently restoring the embankment in order to save the station building.
 

 Nassau County Railway and Glen Cove Railroad trolley lines c. 1907 Archive: Dave Morrison

Bushwick to Sea Cliff sample ticket c.1900
Archive: Brad Phillips

Bushwick to Sea Cliff sample ticket, having no serial number:  Included in the price would is a portion that would subsequently be remitted to Hendrickson's Stage Line. The “division” of revenue would be negotiated between the parties. This arrangement was done, of course, for the convenience of passengers.  An additional motive could be that the stage line accepted a discount from its regular fares to entice the railroad to provide the stage ticket hoping for additional patronage (my speculation).  And further (speculation), seeing that the ticket is issued at a “reduced rate”, there could have been a special event in Sea Cliff which the railroad was promoting, again to encourage patronage.
Info: Brad Phillips
 

In the 1907 photo below, the Nassau County Railway tracks are in the foreground and ran geographically west into the village along Sea Cliff Road. The track curving off to the far right led to a 2-car car barn.  The Glen Cove Railroad tracks are in the background and ran geographically north to Glen Cove.  The Nassau County Railway and Glen Cove Railroad trolley lines operated from 07/02/1902 to 12/31/1924.

The two lines divided at the rear center of the station, as seen here. The car at the left is of the Glen Cove RR and the car at the right is of the Nassau County Ry.  This view is looking geographically NE. The LIRR runs geographically north/south at this point on the Oyster Bay branch before it makes a curve to the east. Research: Dave Keller
 

Sea Cliff Station - Trolley 1907
Photo: Henry Otto Korten Archive: Sea Cliff Museum

Sea Cliff Station - View SE 2021 Google maps

Sea Cliff Station - View NW - 8/28/2020 Photo/Archive: Joe Stroppel

Emery map Glen Cove MP27-28

Glen Cove Depot - Stroppel's Depot Hotel View N 1878 (Brainerd-Brooklyn Public Library)

Glen Cove team track yard - View NW 6/02/1903 (Boerckel-Morrison)

Glen Cove team track yard - View NW 6/02/1903 (Boerckel-Morrison)

 
The freight/express houses combined with garage added - Glen St., Glen Cove (view NW) - 11/24/1960. The expanse at the rear of the buildings was once a many track freight yard.
Archive: Dave Keller

An aerial view at Glen Street, within the City of Glen Cove, taken on New Year's Eve, 2020. Train #552 to Oyster Bay stops on the "Reverse S" curve as it discharges passengers. To the right (north) of the station, where the American Community Bank (partially seen here) stands today, was the site of my family-run bar - Stroppel's Tavern by the Tracks - which closed in 1997. Joe Stroppel

Glen Cove (Nassau)

Built: July-Aug/1895 serviced nearby Nassau Country Club beginning in 1898 when Nassau County was formed
Part time Agency only per "LIRR Ticket Offices open for sale of Tickets" of 9/12/55
Agency closed: 11/7/96. New High-level platforms built: 1999 to accommodate newly arrived C3 Bi-level cars which were placed in service July, 1999. (Robert L. Myers 1999 data)

Emery map Glen Cove MP27-28

LIRR #606 approaching Glen Cove Station
View NE 5/12/1988 Photo/Archive: A. Joseph Daly
 

Glen Cove Station 1903
Archive: Dave Keller

Glen Cove Station 12/1985
Photo/Archive: Terry Guy

Glen Cove Station - 11/30/2020
Photo/Archive: Joe Stroppel

Opened: 4/19/1869
2nd Depot opened: 11/1872, remodeled: 1885, moved to private location: c. 1906
3rd Depot opened: 12/1906  Agency closed: ?  Research: Dave Keller

Locust Valley drawing 1937 - Emery SUNY-Stony Brook

“OY” Tower: North side of tracks at east end of station platform. 8-lever Std. Signal Co. style mechanical machine in svc:  6/1912.  Renamed “LOCUST”: 4/30/1937  

“LOCUST” Tower: 8-lever Std. Signal Co . style replaced with US&S3 lever style B-30 control panel: 11/11/1965. Relocated from tower to hut: 11/17/75 and tower abandoned. In use as Nassau County Police precinct annex. Exterior completely restored to original condition for use by Nassau County Police and dedicated at ceremony: 8/8/2006

Locust Tower 2/88 Photo: John Fusto

Emery map Bayville MP30-31

Bayville Kentuck Pond - View W 11/25/2020 Photo/Archive: Joe Stroppel

APPEARS ON TIMETABLE EFF: 10/1/1889. PER TOWN OF OYSTER BAY HISTORIAN JOHN HAMMOND, STATION STOP WAS A BOXCAR PLACED AT THE CROSSING OF KAINTUCK LANE ON W. SIDE OF SHU SWAMP. ALSO THE SITE OF 500’ SIDING FOR PLACEMENT OF WORK TRAINS AND EQUIPMENT WHILE EXTENSION WAS BEING BUILT O OYSTER BAY. PER ROBERT EMERY'S MAP, DEPOT WAS A WOODEN FRAME BLDG WITH LOW PLATFORM. 

BAYVILLE BECAME A SIGNAL STOP: 11/1891. DISCONTINUED AS STATION STOP: 11/1892. REPLACED BY STATION AT MILL NECK ½ MILE FURTHER EAST ON E. SIDE OF SHU SWAMP. (per 11/3/1892 edition of “Brooklyn Daily Eagle”and John Hammond). “BAYVILLE SIDING” REMAINED IN PLACE AND WAS IN USE AT MILL NECK FOR MANY YEARS AFTER. (per Art Huneke).

Note: Kentuck Pond (sic) as is Kaintuck Lane as per current maps 2020. Steve Lynch

ORIGINAL DEPOT OPENED:  11/1892 ON E. SIDE OF SHU SWAMP TO REPLACE DISCONTINUED BAYVILLE STATION ½ MILE FURTHER WEST. (per 11/3/1892 edition of “Brooklyn Daily Eagle” and John Hammond, Town of Oyster Bay official historian's data). SMALL, ONE-STORY WOODEN STRUCTURE ALSO SERVED AS POST OFFICE DESTROYED BY FIRE 4/3/1911 (Per "Brooklyn Daily Eagle" article.)
 
2ND DEPOT CONSTRUCTED:  1912, SIMILAR IN SIZE AND STYLE TO THE FIRST DEPOT.  RAZED: 1918 FOR REPLACEMENT BY NEW STRUCTURE (John Hammond data).
 
3RD DEPOT OPENED:  1919 (Robert Emery data) SLIGHTLY E. OF PREVIOUS DEPOTS.  2 ½ STORY BRICK STRUCTURE WITH SLATE ROOF.  U.S. POST OFFICE BUILDING ADDED STRUCTURALLY TO EAST SIDE OF DEPOT BUILDING: LATE 1940S/EARLY1950s (?) AGENCY CLOSED: 1958. DEPOT BUILDING CONVERTED TO THE TOWN HALL AND POLICE DEPT. c. MARCH, 1958 (per "NEW YORK TIMES" article of 3/10/58). POST OFFICE STILL IN USE. STATION STOP DISCONTINUED: 3/16/98. STILL IN USE AS VILLAGE HALL, POLICE DEPT. AND U.S. POST OFFICE (2019).  Research: Dave Keller

                                                                                                Shu Swamp, Mill Neck Nature Preserve LIRR train #6505 westbound 10/04/2021 Photo/Archive: Joe Stroppel
 

Mill Neck Station view NE c.1890 
Collection: Locust Valley Historical Society

Mill Neck Station and Post Office c.1907
Archive:  John Hammond 1907 close-up image of the original Mill Neck depot that burned in 1911 and was replaced by the 2nd wooden depot in 1912. (right).

The sign over the door reads "Post Office" so it would appear that Mill Neck originally had its post office in a depot building and, after moving elsewhere for a period of some decades, had it back in a depot building in 1958 when the LIRR's agency closed. 

Mill Neck View N c.1917

Mill Neck view SW c.1917 Archive:  John Hammond

Built: 6/25/1889 with Porte Cochere at rear, extensively remodeled: 1902 Covered platforms removed: 1941
Closed: c. 1988 under renovation for restoration to 1902 remodel for museum historical site (2003)
**4-stall engine house demolished: 8/24/29  (David Morrison data)