LIRR Stations

LIRR Station Symbol Card 8/31/1957 Archive: Brad Phillips

Amityville station and express house looking southeast from the former Cross Island Trolley trestle in use as pedestrian crossover – June, 1964. Road-n-Rail bus parked on east side of station.  (Dave Keller archive)

S. S. R. R. S.SIDE R.R. SVC. BEGAN: 10/28/1867
(MONTAUK)  DEPOT BUILT: NOV-DEC/1868. MOVED TO PRIVATE 
PROPERTY: 1889. STILL STANDING: 2003.

2ND DEPOT OPENED: 7/25/1889, RAZED: 5/29/64. REPLACED WITH TEMPORARY STA. BUILDING. IN SVC: 5/29/64. OUT OF SVC: 10/25/68 ACCOUNT RELOCATION OF TRACKS AND FACILITIES FOR GRADE
CROSSING ELIMINATION. BLDG. RAZED.

2ND TEMPORARY STA. BUILDING ACCOUNT GRADE CROSSING
ELIMINATION IN SVC: 10/25/68. OUT OF SVC: 8/7/73 AND RAZED.

ELEVATED STRUCTURE IN SVC: 8/7/73

BABYLON  SOUTH SIDE R.R. BEGAN SVC: 10/28/67 DEPOT OPENED. 2ND DEPOT OPENED: 7/2/1881, RAZED: 1963 WITH GRADE CROSSING ELIMINATION. TEMPORARY STATION ACCOUNT GRADE CROSSING ELIMINATION IN SVC: 4/6/63. OUT OF SVC: 9/9/64 AND RAZED. ELEVATED STRUCTURE IN SVC: 9/9/64.

Two shots of the temporary station platforms at Babylon with new, elevated tracks/station in background, shot in 1964.  Note that the temporary station platform shelters are on the exact site of the old depot building as the tracks ran south of the original ROW and right through the site. In the background of the shot showing the shelters close-up you can see “ BABYLON ” tower at Deer Park Ave. and how much further north of the tracks it appears...because it was that much further north! Also in the distance you can see a coal silo of the trackside Knickerbocker Ice & Coal Co.  
Research: Dave Keller, LIRR Historian

BALDWIN SOUTH SIDE R.R. SVC. BEGAN: (MONTAUK) 10/28/1867 AS BALDWINSVILLE.” DEPOT BUILT: 2/1868. REMODELED: 5/1881. RAZED 1917. 2ND DEPOT BUILT: 12/28/17, RAZED: 11/56 WITH GRADE ELIMINATION. ELEVATED STRUCTURE OPENED: 10/2/57

Baldwin Station c.1900 View NW
Archive: Baldwin Historical Society

Baldwin Station former South Side Rail Road - 1906
View SE 

This view is of the original depot, the line double tracked, but not electrified, the image would have been shot between June 1891 (double-tracking) and the end of December, 1917 (depot replacement). Research: Dave Keller

The freight house is the larger structure east of the depot. The express house is the structure closer to the depot.

Perhaps the express house served both purposes originally, like Lindenhurst, but as the freight business in Baldwin grew between 1868 and c. 1906 when this image was photographed, perhaps they needed a larger and separate building. Research: Dave Keller

Baldwin Station view SE c.1915

Baldwin Station View W Temporary tracks running behind the depot rear view 5 roof windows on the station parking lot side Research: Dave Keller
Photo: Jim Shaughnessy Archive: Tim Darnell

Baldwin Station View E south side of tracks on the east side of Grand Ave crossing, 4 roof windows on the station trackside. Research: Dave Keller Archive: Jim Gillin
Note chimney on east side of building in BOTH images. 

The second Baldwin station was on the south side of the tracks; the same location as the original South Side RR station. The replacement station shown in the above right postcard was opened on 12/28/1917.  Also note the same express and freight houses that appear in the c. 1906 shot above are still standing in this later image.  It appears they simply razed the old SSRR depot and replaced it with the newer structure in nearly the same spot.

The westbound express house at the far left is an open structure.  Most of these were closed in by the 1930s, not only for the weather, but for security. Also, electrification came through the south shore and reached Babylon in 1925. 

There is no third rail in this view . . . .what you see along the fence is the covered conduit for opening a pedestrian gate in the between-track fence in front of the depot. If you look close you’ll see the walkway between the rails right in front of the depot, identifying the location of said gate. The crossing guard would operate the lever opening and closing this gate for pedestrians to cross from one side of the station to the other, without having to walk down to the crossing and back as there is no pedestrian crossover overhead. 

So . . . the date is sometime between opening day of 12/28/1917 and the electrification project which began in 1925 and culminating in the first electric train running in MAY of that year.  I’d say this postcard was from the late ‘teens /early 1920s. The absence of any cars in the photo doesn’t help the dating AND there are electric lights at the platform in lieu of kerosene. 

You can see in the middle shot showing the temporary tracks that they are running past the station side with the 5 roof windows, while the older view, with the tracks in front of the bldg are running past 4 windows!    Therefore, newer photo is actually looking at the REAR of the depot.  Due to the space restrictions on site, the temporary tracks were run BEHIND the depot.  Research: Dave Keller, LIRR Historian
 

SOUTH SIDE R.R.  DEPOT BUILT: 3/1869, RAZED: 1903
2ND DEPOT OPENED: 8/10/1903, RAZED: 5/64, DISCONTINUED AS
STATION STOP PER G.O. #207, EFF: 9/6/80.

BELLAIRE MAIN LINE OPENED: 3/20/1900 AS “INTERSTATE PARK.” RENAMED “BELLAIRE” IN 1907. 2ND DEPOT OPENED: 9/20/1924 (per official dedication invitation), DISCONTINUED AS STATION STOP: 1972, RAZED: 19 ?  Research: Dave Keller

Ticket Form LH-261 1/2 Fare Bellaire-Hollis 10/27/1961 Archive: Brad Phillips

Note: Validated at Bellaire as a “blank to blank” form to be handwritten. The station to blank stock form was only ordered by stations having lots of sales to stations not justifying printed stock.  Small, rush hour only stations like Bellaire had only full open stock as not many people purchased tickets to ride such a short distance, not justifying printed stock. Brad Phillips

 Note: Although located physically on the Main Line, Bellaire and Hollis were actually stops on the Hempstead branch. The MU train in the image is eastbound on the Main Line tracks. Had it been a Hempstead train it would have been running on the outer, "platformed" tracks. Research: Dave Keller

Opened: 1898 2nd Depot built: Summer/1909, Out of service: 12/12-15/60
Temporary station facilities relocated to Shoo-Fly south of former location: 12/15/60
Elevated, single island platform in service: 11/8/62 
Agency still noted in "Long Island Rail Road Ticket Office Hours" listing of 5/20/74 as part time. Agency closed: __?

Bellerose Station eastbound shelter view W 1939 
Archive: Art Huneke

Bellerose Station sign 10/2022
Photo/Archive: Michael DiMartini

BUILT: SUMMER/1882, 
AGENCY CLOSED: 1/59, RAZED: 5/64
REPLACED WITH SHELTER SHED.
NEW DEPOT WITH HI-LEVEL PLATFORMS BUILT: 2000-2001

S.S.R.R. depot opened: 2/1/1870, closed: 6/1/1882
2nd Depot opened: June/1900, agency closed:  6/1946, razed: 1951
Concrete shelter shed built: 1951.  discontinued as  station stop per G.O. #207, eff: 9/6/80

OPENED: 6/1870, BURNED: 7/6/1884 2ND DEPOT BUILT: 1884, 
AGENCY CLOSED: 1958, DEPOT CLOSED: 1/59, RAZED: 5/64
3RD DEPOT WITH HI-LEVEL PLATFORMS BUILT: 2000-2001

BUILT: 1884. BECAME ONLY A SIGNAL STOP THROUGHOUT THE 1880s AND 1890s. IN LATER YEARS, THE TICKET OFFICE HOUSED "VN" BLOCK STATION UNTIL TAKEN OUT OF SERVICE AND REPLACED WITH UNATTENDED BLOCK STATION SIGNALS IN 1927. AGENCY CLOSED: 1932. DEPOT REMODELED: 1944, REMOVING COVERED PLATFORMS. CLOSED AND DISCONTINUED AS STATION STOP: 10/6/58. BUILDING SOLD AND RELOCATED TO PRIVATE LOCATION: c. 1958-59

         
Brookhaven Station D52 1st Train from 
Penn Station 9/08/1910

Calverton station when it was west of the Edwards Ave. crossing and on the north side of the tracks.  It was sold in 1922 when the replacement depot was opened on the south side of the tracks and east of Edward’s Ave.
View NE c.1915  

Had this depot still be in use in August, 1926, I believe it would have been wiped out in the Pickle Work’s wreck, due to its proximity to the pickle works and the way the locomotives and cars spun around. Archive/Research: Dave Keller

2ND DEPOT BUILT FURTHER EAST: 1922. AGENCY CLOSED: 1958
AND MOVED TO PRIVATE LOCATION.

DEPOT BUILT: 1837 WITH OPENING OF LIRR TO HICKSVILLE. APPEARS ON TIMETABLE OF 6/17/1837. REMOVED AS STATION STOP FROM TIMETABLE OF 1859. 
2ND STATION OPENED WITH WOODEN SHELTER SHED (NO AGENCY). 
IN SVC: BETWEEN MAY AND OCT. 1923 PER ETT #99, EFF. 10/9/1923. REMOVED: 1952. 
3RD STATION OPENED 400’ EAST OF FORMER LOCATION WITH HIGH-LEVEL PLATFORMS, SEMI-ENCLOSED SHELTERS AND PEDESTRIAN CROSSOVER: 1/21/52. NO AGENCY. 

Emery map Carle Place MP20-21 5/1958

Carle Rd., Carle Place - View W zoom 1/09/1930
LIRR valuation Archive: Dave Morrison

Carle Rd., Carle Place - View E zoom 1/09/1930
LIRR valuation Archive: Dave Morrison

Note: Overpass of Ellison Avenue with semaphore signals mounted thereon, on the east side of MP21, just west of Westbury, in background. Info: Dave Keller

Carle Place shelter shed - c.1930 
Photo: James V. Osborne Archive: Ray Muntz 

Cherry Lane bridge #G207 View S c.1947 (Smith-Morrison)


G5s #37 pulling Sun/Holiday only train #4607 from Port Jefferson westbound through Carle Place, NY on 7/13/47 (George E. Votava photo, Dave Keller archive)

Carle Place, Cherry Lane underpass news photo 1952 Archive: Ray Muntz

Cherry Lane Bridge, Carle Place - LIRRer 9/1952
Archive: Dave Morrison

Carle Place Station Archive: Ray Muntz

 
Carle Place station looking west on 2/12/77 (Wm. Madden photo, Dave Keller archive)

Carle Place M9 #9033 - Train #7703 from Huntington to Penn Station. It's about to clear Nassau 3 Interlocking and is passing under Signal Bridge #5. This is west of Carle Place station and still in the hamlet of Carle Place. View E 11/28/2020 Photo/Archive: Jeff Erlitz

Consist: 9033-9034+9003-9004+9009-9010
+9007-9008+9057-9058+9019-9020

S.SIDE R.R. BEGAN SVC: 7/1869.
BUILT: 7/1872 (Per Vincent Seyfried’s LIRR history. 3-year gap??)
RIVAL L.I.R.R. ALSO BUILT DEPOT: 7/1872
AFTER MERGER OF 2 ROADS, OCEAN POINT DEPOT AND LIRR DEPOT ABANDONED: 6/1876
L.I.R.R. DEPOT MOVED TO FAR ROCKAWAY: 8/1881
S.S.R.R. DEPOT AT OCEAN POINT REOPENED: 6/1887, GREATLY REMODELED: 5/1888
3RD DEPOT BUILT: 1913. 
PORTE COCHERE AT REAR. REMOVED: 19 _?_. 
AGENCY CLOSED: 8/19/2009

BUILT: 1881. MORICHES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PETITIONED THE LIRR IN FEBRUARY, 1943, TO CHANGE THE SPELLING OF THE STATION STOP TO "CENTER" IN LIEU OF "CENTRE." (Derek Stadler data). AGENCY STILL LISTED IN "L.I.R.R. TICKET OFFICES OPEN FOR SALE OF TICKETS" OF 9/12/55. RAZED: 5/64. REPLACED WITH METAL SHELTER SHED. NEWER WOODEN SHELTER BUILT: c. 1985. DISCONTINUED AS STATION STOP: 3/16/98

Central Park Station 09/1879 
Photo: George Brainard

Ticket Central Park to Farmingdale 1917-1920 Archive: Brad Phillips

Originally opened as “Jerusalem” c.1854. Station stop located one mile west of Bethpage Jct. Does not appear on LIRR timetables between 1842 and 1855, however it does appear in an April, 1854 LIRR advertisement in the “New York Times.”

The Post Office changed name of the town to Central Park in 1867 as it was located midway between Hyde Park (later New Hyde Park) and Deer Park.  The name of Station stop varies as follows:

Map of 1873 = Jerusalem timetable of 1877 = Central Park
Timetable of 4/1878 = Central Park
ETT and timetable of 11/1878 = Jerusalem 
Timetable of 3/1879 = Jerusalem
ETT of 9/1879 = Jerusalem photograph taken of depot by George Brainard in September, 1879 shows “Central Park” station sign on depot
Timetable of 7/1880 = Central Park (timetable info. Courtesy of Art Huneke) possible final change of name on LIRR timetables in 9/1879.  

2nd Depot built: 1884, Renamed “Bethpage”: 10/1/36. Razed: 1959

OPENED: 11/4/1873 TO REPLACE “SUFFOLK” STATION FURTHER WEST. REMODELED c. 1916, RAZED: 8/58
2ND DEPOT BUILT: 1958. AGENCY CLOSED: ? DEPOT CLOSED: 1987
3RD DEPOT RELOCATED 1,700’ EAST OF FORMER LOCATION ON SOUTH
SIDE OF MAIN TRACK WITH HIGH LEVEL PLATFORMS IN SVC: 11/16/87. FACILITIES ON NORTH SIDE OF PASSING SIDING IN SVC: 12/14/87

CLARENCEVILLE - ATLANTIC BRANCH  BUILT: 1905 (?) WITH ELECTRIFICATION FROM FLATBUSH AVE. OUT OF SVC: 11/1/39 PER G.O. #1204 AND RAZED WITH ATLANTIC AVENUE IMPROVEMENT PROJECT: 1939-40

Built: 12/1875 as “Woodbury.”  
Renamed “Cold Spring” On  10/15/1880 Per G. O. #90.
Moved East Across County Line To Present Station Location: 1901- 02.
Renamed “Cold Spring Harbor.” Razed: 1948.
2nd Depot Built: 1948. Agency Closed:  ? Research: Dave Keller  

Ticket - Cold Spring Harbor and Syosset  7/24/62  Archive: Brad Phillips

College Point Station 1906

OPENED: FLUSHING R.R. 8/14/1869, followed by NY & FLUSHING, FLUSHING & N. SIDE, as WHITESTONE BRANCH CLOSED: 2/19/32 WITH LINE ABANDONMENT, RAZED: 9/19/34 

OPENED: 1/8/1873, TO SERVICE THE RECENTLY FORMED (1871) NATIONAL RIFLE ASSN.'S (NRA) NEWLY OPENED NATIONAL RIFLE RANGE BUILT, IN CONJUNCTION WITH N.Y. STATE LEGISLATURE AND THE N.R.A., ON 70 ACRES OF LAND ACQUIRED FROM A MR. CREED.  1ST INTERNATIONAL MATCH HELD AT RANGE: 1874.  BRANCH AND PASSENGER SERVICE ABANDONED BY CRR OF LI: 4/30/1879.  USED BY LIRR UNTIL 1881 TO CONTINUE TO SERVICE THE RIFLE RANGE VIA LIRR'S MAIN LINE AND "CREEDMOOR CUT-OFF" WEST  OF HINSDALE (LATER FLORAL PARK) STATION.  DEPOT REMOVED:  __?  RIFLE RANGE RELOCATED TO NJ IN  1891 AND LAND REVERTED TO STATE OF NY IN 1907.  STATE HOSPITAL BUILT ON SITE: 1912.

Central Railroad of LI map - Creedmoor area zoom 1873 
Archive: Library of Congress 

Creedmoor Range Hotel Ad c.1873+

At the time of this timetable, September, 1879 (above right), trains were run via the LIRR, eastbound thru Stewart Jct., using the "Creedmoor Cutoff" installed in 1878 west of the station, accessing East Hinsdale and terminating at Creedmoor for the National Rifle Range.  You'll notice that the other stations that were on that branch (Flushing/Central Junction, Kissena Park, and Frankiston are not even listed.  Those stops had already been abandoned to passenger service in April 30, 1879. Research: Dave Keller

 
Creedmoor Cut-off  1878  Archive: Art Huneke

BUILT: 3/1870 AS “MORICHES” STATION ON ORIGINAL SAG
HARBOR BR., MOVED TO EASTPORT SITE: 10/18/1881, NEW
STOP IN SVC: 10/19/1881. 
REMODELED: 19 ?, OUT OF SVC: 10/6/58 AND DISCONTINUED AS STATION STOP. MOVED TO PRIVATE LOCATION: AFTER 1963

BUILT: 1895. FULL-TIME AGENCY CLOSED: ?  SUNDAY AGENCY ONLY: 2005 Research: Dave Keller

East Hampton Station colorized post card
View W c.1905 - Source: eBay

Easthampton prior to name change:  East Hampton was first called Maidstone, after Maidstone, Kent, England. The name was later changed to "Easthampton", reflecting the geographic names of its neighbors, Southampton and Westhampton.  In 1885 the name was split into two words, after the local newspaper the East Hampton Star began using the two-word name. "Maidstone" is frequently used in place names throughout the town, including the Maidstone Golf Club.  Wiki

East Hampton to Sag Harbor 7 miles - Horses at a trot can cover this distance within the hour.
Sag Harbor or Bridgehampton 4 miles
Bridgehampton to Southampton 6 miles
Southampton to Riverhead 8 miles   - Total mileage roughly: 25 miles.

Interesting also, is the fare structure. Sag-Harbor to Riverhead $1.00  The Bridgehampton to Brooklyn $2.37 and ½ cent (left).  Worth about $72.00 inflation adjusted today. (Such a deal!)  That fare was quite steep for the day.  Infantrymen in the Mexican-American war 1846-48 earned $7 per month, for example.  Really a fortune back then, as only the wealthy could afford this form of travel.

RS3 #1560 passing the East Hampton Freight House
View NE - 5/17/1959 Archive: Dave Keller

Note: Further east is the probable westbound Express House and the East Hampton Station.

US Half Cent typical of the period in common use. 

Until recent years, there was a porcelain sign on the rear exterior wall of the depot building that read “Carriages must not stand at this platform except while actually discharging or loading passengers.” It’s since disappeared from the wall. The freight station was moved to a private location at one of the three LIRR trestles east of the station and was visible, if one looked specifically for it, while crossing over the street via said bridge while in an eastbound train, and looking south.  I cannot recall the name of the street in question, but there were three bridged roads east of the station. Info: Dave Keller

EAST WILLISTON OYSTER BAY BRANCH BUILT: c. 1880.  AGENCY CLOSED: 12/10/96. RAZED: 12/11/2004

East Williston View SW 1960

East Williston Station view NW c.1976+ 
Archive: Dave Morrison 

East Williston Station raze "As the dust settles" 12/11/2004 Archive: Dave Morrison

FLORAL PARK STATION

LIRR G5s WB Floral Park c.1937

BUILT: OCT-NOV/1878 AS “STEWART JUNCTION.” RENAMED HINSDALE: 1879 WITH CLOSING OF CRR OF LI DEPOT. 
RENAMED EAST HINSDALE: 1887 – 1889. 
RENAMED FLORAL PARK: BY 1890. RAZED:1909
2ND, RELOCATED DEPOT BUILT: 1909, RAZED: 10/20/60
ELEVATED STRUCTURE BUILT: 1960. AGENCY CLOSED: 8/19/2009.

Note: Keystone station sign on the depot. “PARK” tower in the rear right background behind the man and crossing shanty at the end of the station platform on the other side of Tulip Ave. crossing. Info/Archive: Dave Keller  

Emery map - Flowerfield 1934 
Archive: SUNY Stony  Brook

OPENED: 1909-10. LISTED IN ETT #108 EFF: 05/23/28 AS OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK. TICKET OFFICES NOT LISTED IN SUBSEQUENT ETTs. SO UNABLE TO VERIFY WHEN AGENCY CLOSED. 
PER ROBERT. EMERY, AGENCY CLOSED 1928 AND FLAG STOP SIGNAL REMOVED. DISCONTINUED AS STATION STOP: 1958. RAZED: 7/59 

A cute and odd little depot, what with the 2nd floor solarium,
 unique to only this depot on the LIRR. Info: Dave Keller

MORE Flowerfield Station

Flowerfield Station View W c. 1927 (Osborne-Huneke)

Emery stated in his SUNY map of Flowerfield (above right) that the train order signal was removed in 1928 and the agency closed that same year. First, there never was a train order signal at Flowerfield. What was there, and in the position indicated on Emery's map, was a Flagstop Signal. The c.1927 image shot by James V. Osborne (above left) shows two Dietz kerosene platform lamps with a wooden post between them, located directly in front of the depot. This was the Flagstop signal post. Later images of this depot show signal post having been removed.

Also, note a sign advertising the depot as a Western Union telegraph office,  flag stop signal post still standing, the shrubbery all well-maintained, and notice the windows in the upper level are open. So the agent was still in residence and the depot's agency was still open. Unfortunately Osborne wasn't very good about dating his negatives, so everything he shot was between 1921 and 1930 and all got "circa" dates.

Art Huneke says that his ETT #108 eff. 5/23/1928 indicates ticket office hours and Flowerfield was listed as being open 7 days a week. Subsequent ETTs no longer listed ticket office hours so we couldn't factually say the agency closed in 1928, but it would make sense that WHEN the agency closed, there was no representative of the railroad present and no one to hang the flagstop signal, so it would explain why both the agency closed and the signal and post were removed the same year (probably at the same time), 1928 is as likely a date for this to have occurred.

Then again, Emery may have spoken with Osborne when he was drawing these maps and he may have remembered when the agency closed. (Osborne retired from the LIRR in 1971 after 50 years of service! Osborne and Emery's dad both were block operators.)  Research: Dave Keller

FOREST HILLS MAIN LINE BUILT: 1906, CLOSED: 1911  2ND DEPOT OPENED: 8/5/1911. AGENCY CLOSED: 8/19/2009.

PART 5: PENN STATION OPENS AND A SUBURBAN COLOSSUS EMERGES by George Chiasson, Jr.
(Originally published as Part Three of “The Genesis of “Dashing Dan”) An End to the Beginning:
The Long Island Rail Road Makes Ready for the Opening of Pennsylvania Station

On September 8, 1910, electrified service was operated on the following complete routes, in general using MP-54 type steel Multiple-Unit equipment,
and with a controversial 14 cents extra tacked onto each fare to cover a per train rental fee paid to the Pennsylvania Railroad:

Hempstead Branch: Penn Station to Hempstead via Jamaica and Floral Park. Stops at Woodside, Winfield,
Forest Hills, Hillside, (old) Jamaica, Rockaway Junction, Hollis, Bellaire, Queens (Village), Bellerose, Floral Park, Stewart Manor, Nassau Blvd.,
Garden City and Hempstead.  Research: George Chiasson, Jr.

Forest Hills Station view NE c.1925 
Photo: James Osborne

Forest Hills Station view NW c.1925

Forest Hills Station 1966 view SW
(Sturm-Fehn)

Forest Hills station, eastbound side, with original sheltered bridge connection over
the road in the center to the Forest Hills Hotel at the far right. View NE. c. 1992

Former Corn Exchange Bank - Forest Hills  view SE 
2017 Photo: Mike Perlman

Forest Hills Station 10/06/2015 view SW
Photo/Archive: Kevin Wong

Forest Hills Station 11/29/2015 view W 
Photo/Archive: Kevin Wong

Forest Hills eastbound Station 10/06/2015
Photo/Archive: Kevin Wong

Glen Cove view NE 1992

Glen Cove, Nassau station, looking northeast 1903. Check out the bicycle propped against the ticket office rounded bay window, the hand truck near the bike and the old express wagon under the covered platform, center, and there are ELECTRIC platform lamps with wiring coming off the depot’s eaves! Info/Archive: Dave Keller

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: ?

BUILT: 10/1890, BY LAND DEVELOPER FREDERICK W. DUNTON, NEPHEW OF LIRR PRES. AUSTIN CORBIN AND THE DEVELOPER OF HOLLIS AND DUNTON, QUEENS .  ALTHOUGH CONSIDERED EAST PATCHOGUE , IT WAS NEVER LISTED IN TIMETABLES AS SUCH.  PUBLIC TIMETABLES FROM SEPTEMBER, 1894 THROUGH JUNE, 1900 DO NOT LIST THE STATION STOP WHICH HAD BEEN REDUCED TO SIGNAL STATUS DUE TO LACK OF RIDERSHIP.  (UNABLE TO VERIFY 1901 AND 1902 AS LACKING THOSE TIMETABLES.)  IT APPEARS IN ETT #26, EFF. 05/27/1903 AND IS IN THE OCTOBER PUBLIC TT OF THAT YEAR.  IT LAST APPEARS ON PUBLIC TIMETABLES OF 10/17/1928 AND IS GONE FROM ETT #110 EFF. 06/16/29, ALTHOUGH STILL LISTED IN THE TIME-TABLE'S LIST OF STATIONS SHOWING MILEAGE AND BLOCK STATIONS.  

Hagerman Station c.1925  Photo: James V. Osborne Archive: Dave Keller

HEMPSTEAD C.R.R. depot built: Oct-Dec/1872 at Fulton Avenue and became LIRR’s Hempstead Station and terminus in 1878. Remodeled: 7/1881. Razed: 1913.

2nd Depot opened: 2/1913. Temporary station in service: 1,265’ west of former location: 12/30/41 while tracks were cut back to Columbia Street. 2nd Depot moved to Columbia Street.: Upon completion of track work and placed in service: by 6/17/1943 (photo provenance with official valuation photo and date) Gutted by fire: 12/31/62 and remodeled. Razed: 1998

3rd Depot built: 1999-2000

The brand new depot at Fulton Ave., Hempstead shortly after it opened in February, 1913.  This depot replaced the all-brick depot built by Alexander T. Stewart in 1872 for his Central Railroad of Long Island and used by the LIRR upon their acquisition of his railroad in 1878, as it was a better depot than the LIRR's own adjacent depot.  View is northwest (railroad west).  Note "Smith's Livery " at the left and the hitching post in the center foreground!  This image had to be photographed shortly after opening as there are NO handrails yet installed at the two concrete stair locations and no shrubbery in place.  It appears that the trees in the right background have leaves on them so this could be a May/June image.  The new terminal building would have been opened for only 3-4 months at the time this may have been taken.  (Dave Keller data and archive)

Hempstead Station valuation photo view NW 6/17/1943  

The image, above, shows the Hempstead station building after it was moved back to Columbia Street, from Fulton Ave.  The notation on the back of the image states that it's a "completion shot" but although it was photographed in June, 1943, it does not mean that the relocated depot was opened then.  It could have been opened a month earlier and the photographer only told to photograph it in June. Research: Dave Keller

Hard to imagine that the image from 1960 (below) shows the SAME depot with the same Spanish tiles (47 years in place!) yet after the major fire of 1962 the roof style was changed by eliminating the stylish upward curve of the eaves at the ends, ugly rooftop dormers were added which were NOT in keeping with the architectural style AND the Spanish tiles were replaced by hum-drum, 3-tab, asphalt roof shingles.


Hempstead Station view N 1960

 Hempstead Station valuation photo view NW 6/17/1943 reverse

Hempstead Station "refurbished" structure post-fire damage. 1969 view NW (J. P. Krzenski photo, Dave Keller archive)

SOUTH SIDE R.R. BEGAN SVC: 7/1869 AS “HEWLETTS.” DEPOT BUILT: 1870 (Per Vincent Seyfried’s LIRR history) ON SOUTH SIDE OF TRACKS EAST OF FRANKLIN AVE. TRADITION SAYS CONSTRUCTION WAS PAID FOR BY THE HEWLETT FAMILY. REPLACED BY NEW DEPOT: 7/28/2003. 

2ND DEPOT OPENED: 7/28/2003, ON N. SIDE OF, AND PERPENDICULAR TO, THE TRACKS AND W. OF FRANKLIN AVE. AGENCY CLOSED: 8/19/2009. ORIGINAL DEPOT USED BY LIRR PERSONNEL. STILL STANDING: 2014. 

S. SIDE R.R. Began service: 7/1869 as “HEWLETTS.” 
Depot Built: 1870 (Per Vincent Seyfried’s LIRR History) on south side of tracks east of Franklin Ave.  Tradition says construction was paid for by the Hewlett Family. Replaced by new depot:   7/28/2003.  Still used by LIRR personnel and standing:  2014.

2nd Depot opened: 7/28/2003, It sets at a 90 degree angle from the old depot,  and is located on the north side of the tracks, and on the west side of the road crossing the tracks. Agency closed: 8/19/2009.  

OLD STORE SERVED AS ORIGINAL “WAVERLY” DEPOT UPON OPENING OF LINE IN 1843, RENAMED HOLTSVILLE: 1860, ORIGINAL PRE-1843 STRUCTURE RAZED: 1912
2ND DEPOT OPENED: 5/14/12, BURNED: 1/4/14
3RD DEPOT BUILT: 1914. SUFFOLK TRACTION CO.’s 1912 STEEL
TRESTLE OVER TRACKS DEMOLISHED: 1930. 
AGENCY CLOSED: 1/1959. RAZED: 7/62.
REPLACED WITH SHEET METAL SHELTER SHED. SHED REMOVED BY LATE 1960s.
METAL AND PLEXIGLASS SHELTER SHED INSTALLED: 1987 WHICH 
REMAINED IN PLACE UNTIL DISCONTINUED
AS STATION STOP: 3/16/1998.

HUNTINGTON STA. BUILT: 1868 (?), CLOSED: 1909
2ND, RELOCATED DEPOT OPENED: 10/1909

KEW OPENED: 9/8/1910 ON RE-ALIGNED MAIN LINE TRACKS SOUTH OF EX-MAPLE GROVE STATION SITE.
RENAMED “KEW GARDENS”: 1912.  AGENCY CLOSED: 8/19/2009.

Kew Gardens Station - 1950

Kew Gardens Station interior 7/27/2007 Photo/Archive: Kevin Wong

Kew Gardens Station - 1965

Kew Gardens 7/27/2007 Photo/Archive: Kevin Wong

LAUREL: STATION STOP ORIGINALLY APPEARS AS “FRANKLINVILLE.” NOT LISTED ON TT OF 10/1880 or 1881. 
APPEARS ON TT OF 09/10/1884 AS "FRANKLINVILLE." NO DEPOT BUILDING INDICATED. PROBABLY JUST A PLATFORM. 
DOES NOT APPEAR ON TT OF 10/1884. 

TOWN IS RENAMED “LAUREL” IN 1890 BUT THE STATION STOP DOES NOT APPEAR ON TT OF 1/19/1891, AND DOES APPEAR AGAIN ON TT OF 9/27/1892 AS "FRANKLINVILLE." LISTED AS SUCH AS LATE AS ETT #3, EFF: 6/1897 AND ON PUBLIC TT OF 10/14/1897. STATION APPEARS AS “LAUREL” ON TT OF 09/17/1899 AND TT's THEREAFTER.

DEPOT BUILT: 1901, REMODELED INTO SHELTER SHED: 1939, RAZED: 1967. LAST LISTED IN ETT #1, EFF: 5/22/66
Research: Dave Keller
 

 
Laurel Station - View E c.1947 (Smith-Morrison)

Laurel Agent hourly pay rate in 1924
$21.60 weekly

Laurel Station - View NW 4/19/1953
(Wetterau-Viken - Morrison)
Note: Papish Produce Potato House in rear

Laurel Station 1962 Archive: John Scala

Laurel Station -Train #204 eastbound MP80
3/1966  Archive: Brad Phillips

Laurel Station - View NW MP80 3/1966
Archive: Brad Phillips

Little Neck view NE 11/05/08 
Photo: Robert Anderson

FLUSHING R.R.  Appears on timetable of 1866
NY & FLUSHING R.R.  Depot opened: July/1870
FLUSHING & N. SIDE R.R.  2^ND Depot opened: 12/1890
Agency Closed:  8/19/2009

APPEARS ON TIMETABLE OF 6/14/1845 AS “ST. GEORGE’S
MANOR” AND LATER SHORTENED TO “MANOR.” 
RAZED: 9/1869 (Per local history, the first station agent, Seth Raynor, 
a patriot, painted out the “St. George’s,” leaving “Manor.”)

THE TOWN NAME CHANGED TO MANORVILLE WITH OPENING OF
THE POST OFFICE, BUT TIMETABLES AND LIRR DOCUMENTS
RETAINED THE NAME “MANOR” UNTIL c. 1907-1908. PHOTO OF
DEPOT TAKEN IN 9/1906 SHOWS “MANOR” STATION SIGN ON SIDE
OF BLDG. 

JUNCTION TO EASTPORT WITH NEW BRANCH TERMINATING AT SAG HARBOR CONSTRUCTED: 1870.
2ND DEPOT BUILT: 5/1871. RAZED: 6/41

BUILT: 1882 AS “FORGE”, RENAMED: 1893. 
STATION STOP DISCONTINUED: 7/15/60. 
MOVED 7,010’ WEST TO MASTIC-SHIRLEY. RAZED: 8/60

MASTIC-SHIRLEY: IN SERVICE: 7/15/1960. AGENCY CLOSED: ?
HI-LEVEL PLATFORMS AND SHELTER INSTALLED: 1999 TO ACCOMMODATE NEWLY-ARRIVED C3 BI-LEVEL CARS WHICH WERE PLACED IN SERVICE JULY, 1999.
(Robert L. Myers 1999 data)   Research: Dave Keller

Medford Station 1910 Archive: Dave Keller

1ST DEPOT OPENED: 6/26/1844 WITH OPENING OF LIRR OUT TO TEMPORARY END-OF-TRACK AT CARMAN’S RIVER. BURNED: 8/20/1863

2ND (?) DEPOT BUILT: 1889 WITH ATTACHED AGENT’S QUARTERS. LOCATED ALONGSIDE OLD PATCHOGUE/PORT JEFFERSON RD.   MOVED SLIGHTLY EAST AND FURTHER SOUTH OF THE TRACKS TO MAKE ROOM FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEWER, WIDER STATE RT. 112: 1937. PSGR. & FRT. STATION OUT OF SVC: 6/7/40 RAZED: SUMMER/1940 WITH RT. 112 GRADE CROSSING ELIMINATION. TEMPORARY PSGR & FRT. STATION 800’ EAST OF FORMER LOCATION AND TEMP. MAIN TRACK N. OF FORMER LOCATION IN SVC: 6/7/40. TEMP. MAIN TRACK, TEMP. PSGR & FRT STATION AND TEAM TRACK OUT OF SVC: 9/9/40.

3RD ELEVATED DEPOT, MAIN TRACK, AND TEAM TRACK IN SVC: 9/9/40. TICKET OFFICE / WAITING ROOM AT TRACK LEVEL. EXPRESS / BAGGAGE OFFICE AT GRADE WITH LONG, CONCRETE RAMP EXTENDING TO PLATFORM LEVEL. PASSING SIDING IN SVC: 11/2/40. PART TIME AGENCY CLOSED: 1958. UPPER LEVEL OF STRUCTURE HEAVILY VANDALIZED AND RAZED: 1964. LOWER LEVEL WINDOWS AND DOOR BLOCKED UP AND STRUCTURE FILLED WITH DIRT. METAL SHELTER SHED ERECTED ATOP LOWER STRUCTURE.

4TH ELEVATED DEPOT WITH HI-LEVEL PLATFORMS BUILT: 2000-01 

U.S. post office building - LIRR MP15ac #168 at Mill Neck station view E  04/1989 (Dave Keller archive)

Original depot opened:  11/1892 on east 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). Depot burned: 4/3/11
2nd depot opened: 1912.  Depot burned: 1918
3rd depot opened:  1919 slightly east of previous depots.
U.S. Post Office building added structurally to east side of 
depot building: 19 ? .
Agency closed: 1958. Discontinued as Station stop: 3/16/98

Archive/Info: Dave Keller

Opened: Sometime after 1903 for employees of neighboring fish processing plants. It appears as a signal stop in special instructions of ETT #27: 6/25/1903. Appears with a station designation of "S110" in 1903, 1913 and 1924 CR4 books and listed in train schedule of ETT #49: 9/09/1908. (Art Huneke data). Listed in train schedule of ETT of November, 1910. Shelter shed constructed: c. 1918 or earlier. Appears on LIRR 1918 valuation map as "frame passenger" structure (R. Makse data). Appears as flag stop in schedule pages of ETT #106: 5/1927. Robert Emery states station razed: 12/5/27 and station stop discontinued, however ETT #107: 12/26/27 lists station stop in schedule pages, but no stops indicated. no longer indicated in ETT #108: 5/23/28 (Art Huneke data) Research: Dave Keller

1ST DEPOT BUILT: c. 1837 AS “HYDE PARK” WITH OPENING OF LIRR TO HICKSVILLE. RENAMED “NEW HYDE PARK. 
2ND DEPOT BUILT: 1870, RAZED: SUMMER/1947  3RD DEPOT BUILT: 1947, REMODELED: c. 1990s, RAZED: 2002-2003 
4TH DEPOT BUILT: 2002-2003. AGENCY CLOSED: 8/19/2009

Northport c.1910

Northport station as it looked c. 1910 with a Northport Trolley behind the depot. Archive: Dave Keller  

Northport c. 1927  Archive: Jim Gillin

When I was an Extra Agent in the mid 1970's I covered a job that assisted in Northport on Monday mornings.  The regular Agent whose last name was Pederson gave  me this.  It is printed as a postcard. Info: Jim Gillin

Northport Station Clock Photo: Dave Morrison

OPENED: 5/1/15, BURNED: c. 1958-59 
2ND DEPOT BUILT: 1959, RAZED: SUMMER/2002 
3RD DEPOT OPENED: 2/26/2003. AGENCY CLOSED: 8/19/2009. 

Oriental Hotel Coney Island Manhattan Beach view E 1903 Photo: Shorpy Archive: Dave Keller

Behind the hotel on the bay side the LIRR had a right-of-way and train service.  The hotel had its own station called Oriental Hotel.

Oriental Hotel Station 2-4-4t #211 with train 1898 View NE 
Archive: Dave Keller

Ornate depot in oriental style to service patrons of the beach front 
Oriental Hotel at Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn.

First appears on timetables of 1883. Discontinued ?

The Forney #211 was originally #154 built in 1892 and renumbered 1n 1898.

The rapid transit cars were built in 1898 -99 for Brooklyn Bridge service as the center doors were only used at Brooklyn Bridge where they were opened by men on the station platform.

The cars were wired for use with MP41's in 1905. Info: Art Huneke

BUILT: 1915, RAZED: 6/62
DISCONTINUED AS STATION STOP: 10/27/86

OPENED: 8/30/1904 WITH FANCY TICKET OFFICE LOCATED IN THE
MAIN LOBBY. IT WAS SAID THE OFFICE WAS NEVER PUT IN SVC.
BUILDING REMAINED IN SERVICE FOR CEMETERY BUSINESS UNTIL IT WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE IN 4/1928. WALLS STILL STANDING IN 1960. ARCHED ENTRANCE STILL STANDING UNTIL ELECTRIFICATION PROJECT BEGAN IN 1985.

Port Jefferson 1905
Archive: Dave Keller

OPENED: 1/1873, BURNED: 2/1/1874
2nd DEPOT BUILT: 6/1875 CLOSED: 1903 AND USED AS YARD BLDG, RAZED: 4/1963
3rd DEPOT OPENED: 7/25/03, REMODELED: 1968. 
STATION FACILITIES TEMPORARILY OUT OF SVC: 4/18/88.
TEMPORARY STATION FACILITIES 75’ WEST OF MAIN ST. IN SVC: 4/25/88.
MAIN BUILDING BACK IN SVC: ?
EXTERIOR RESTORED TO ORIGINAL ARCHITECTURE, INTERIOR REMODELED: 2000-01.

Queens Station 1908 - eBay

QUEENS: FORMERLY "INGLEWOOD" STATION.  RENAMED: 10/1881 AS “QUEENS”, MOVED TO PRIVATE LOCATION: 1924 WITH GRADE ELIMINATION.  (SEE: “QUEENS VILLAGE”)

QUEENS VILLAGE: OPENED: 10/1881 AS “QUEENS”, MOVED TO PRIVATE LOCATION: 1924 WITH GRADE ELIMINATION.
ELEVATED STRUCTURE OPENED: 9/20/1924 (per official dedication invitation) AS “QUEENS VILLAGE.”
AGENCY CLOSED: 12/10/1996.  Research: Dave Keller

Quogue Station 1958 (Irving Solomon photo for the PSC, Dave Keller archive)

BUILT: 6/1875
2nd DEPOT BUILT: 1882, MOVED TO PRIVATE LOCATION: 1905
3rd DEPOT BUILT; 1905, AGENCY CLOSED: 1958, RAZED: 4/64 REPLACED WITH METAL SHELTER SHED. DISCONTINUED AS STATION STOP: 3/16/98

ROCKVILLE CENTRE 

South Side Rail Road depot opened:  10/28/1867.  
Remodeled: 7/1881, Moved to private location: 1901, Razed: 2004

2nd Depot opened: 10/14/1901, Razed: 3/49 with grade elimination. 
Temporary station facilities relocated  south and east of former location: 4/19-22/49

Elevated structure in service: 7/17-18/50

SOUTH SIDE R.R. SERVICE BEGAN: (ATLANTIC) 10/28/1867 AS “FOSTER’S MEADOW.”  DEPOT BUILT: 7/1871 (4-yeargap??) OUT OF SVC: 1889.  MAY HAVE BEEN USED AS FREIGHT HOUSE FOR 2ND DEPOT. RAZED: ?

2ND DEPOT BUILT: 1889. RENAMED “ROSEDALE”: 1892. EASTBOUND FACILITIES RELOCATED S. OF FORMER LOCATION: 11/26/41. RELOCATED N. AGAIN: 3/10/42 WITH CANCELLATION OF PROJECT. ALL FACILITIES AGAIN RELOCATED S. OF FORMER LOCATION: 11/16-18/48 DUE TO GRADE ELIMINATION PROJECT. DEPOT RAZED: 11/48. 

TEMPORARY FACILITIES IN SERVICE SOUTH OF FORMER LOCATION: 11/16-18/48 ELEVATED STRUCTURE OPENED WESTBOUND: 10/31/50, EASTBOUND:11/27/50. AGENCY CLOSED: 8/19/2009.

Sunflower movie poster 10/30-11/05/70  LIRR #9155 approaching Rosedale. Photo: c. 8/1970 View E

Rear view of Sag Harbor station either recently opened or just about to be.  Construction debris on the ground and the original depot is visible at the right.  View NW - 1910 Archive: Dave Keller


Sag Harbor Station 8/05/1963
Photo: Brad Phillips


Sag Harbor Brill gas car #1134 crew 7/05/31 Archive: Dave Keller

OPENED: 1/1871, PERPENDICULAR TO END OF TRACK MOVED: 2/1871, BURNED: 11/1873

2ND DEPOT BUILT: 1873 MOVED TO S. SIDE OF TRACKS: 1902 UNDER RENOVATION 10/1908 WHEN MONEY FOR NEW DEPOT WAS DONATED. USED AS FREIGHT/STORAGE BLDG FOR 3RD STATION.

3RD DEPOT BUILT: 1910 AGENCY CLOSED: 1932. OUT OF SVC: 5/3/39 WITH BRANCH ABANDONMENT: 5/3/39.
USED AS PRIVATE BUSINESS, RAZED: 1966 
**EXPRESS HOUSE BUILT: 1900. IN USE AS PRIVATE BUSINESS: 2003

 
Sag Harbor Brill gas car #1134 04/1939 
Archive: Dave Keller

Shinnecock Hills Station view SE  c.1910.
The track in the foreground closest to the photographer was the passing siding with a 16-car capacity.  A team track led from it on the east end, running north of the siding westward.

The team track was removed in 1930 and the passing siding in 1934. (See Robert Emery's map below right) (Dave Keller data)

BUILT: APR-MAY/1887 WITH OPEN AIR VIEW PORTS IN TURRET TO OVERLOOK GREAT PECONIC BAY. LOW PLATFORM REMOVED: 1931 (Robt. Emery data). AGENCY CLOSED: 9/21/32. STATION STOP DISCONTINUED SHORTLY AFTER TIME- TABLE OF 9/32 WAS ISSUED, WHICH LISTED ONE TRAIN MAKING A FLAG- STOP. STATION CONTINUED TO BE LISTED ON TIMETABLES OF 1934 AND 1935 WITH NO TRAINS SCHEDULED TO STOP. LATER USED AS A U.S. POST OFFICE WITH ACTIVE MAIL CRANE UNTIL LIRR RPO SERVICE ENDED IN 1965. POSTAL FACILITY CLOSED: 1966. BUILDING ABANDONED AND PURCHASED IN 1974 FOR USE AS A PRIVATE RESIDENCE IN SITU. DESIGNATED A LOCAL SOUTHAMPTON LANDMARK: 10/22/2013.

The LIRR built its branch from Manorville SE to Moriches and then E along the south shore to Bridgehampton and NE up to Sag Harbor in 1870.  In 1881, the LIRR extended the former SSRR from Patchogue to connect with this branch at the new junction at Eastport, and the Moriches station on the old Sag Harbor branch a short distance west of this junction was lifted off its foundation and moved east and renamed Eastport.  The line was extended from Bridgehampton further east to Montauk in 1895.  Research: Dave Keller

MORE SHINNECOCK HILLS and SHINNECOCK CANAL

Shinnecock Hills Station - KH Block Signal - View SE c.1920 Archive: Ron Ziel
Note the eastbound and westbound high level express platforms with a scale on the westbound one. 
also, the passing siding and the Spanish pan tiles on the roof of the turret. Info: Dave Keller

LIRR Rules and  Rates of Pay -Shinnecock Hills 1/01/1924

There was a full-time agent assigned to the station as of Jan. 1, 1924. Had he been seasonal, the letter "S" would appear next to his position, as is indicated in this Rates of Pay book for "Agent no. 2" at Seaside station.  The agent at Shinnecock Hills was paid $ .52 per hour.  There was no ticket clerk helper, as business most probably didn't warrant it. In addition, the agent was paid an extra 8-1/4 cents per hour to handle the block.  Also note that RENT was included as part of the "perks."  Therefore, that portion of the depot on the east side of the ticket bay and turret, including the extension at the rear (see view at right) would have been the agent's living quarters.  (Dave Keller data)

Shinnecock Hills Station - rear View N 1/1970
Photo/Archive: Dave Keller

BUILT: NOV-DEC/1872, CLOSED: 11/6/36, WITH GRADE CROSSING ELIMINATION OF ROUTES 25 AND 25A. MOVED TO PRIVATE LOCATION: EARLY IN 1937. 2ND, ELEVATED DEPOT IN SVC: 2/18/37. REMODELED: 1987 WITH HI-LEVEL PLATFORM INSTALLATION. Research: Dave Keller

Once high-level platforms were installed at the station to handle the new push-pull service, the overhanging eaves trackside had to be cut back to allow for passenger clearance overhead, totally ruining the architectural lines of the depot building.

When it was decided to eliminate the grade crossing in Smithtown and construct a new depot building, the old, original structure was moved south of the location to Lawrence street to become a private residence. Info: Dave Keller

Southampton Station post card c. 1905
Photo/Archive: Jim Gillin

Southampton Station 06/1975 
Photo/Archive: Jim Gillin

OPENED: 2/1871, RAZED: 1902
2ND DEPOT BUILT: 1902. FULL-TIME AGENCY CLOSED: ? SUNDAY AGENCY ONLY: 2005.

Southampton Station Ticket Office
06/1975 

SOUTHOLD MAIN LINE 1ST DEPOT APPEARS ON TIMETABLE
OF 6/14/1845.
2ND DEPOT OPENED: 1/1870
AGENCY CLOSED: 1958, RAZED: 6/62
3RD DEPOT WITH HI-LEVEL PLATFORMS BUILT: 2000-01
Research: Dave Keller

BUILT: 1898  2ND DEPOT BUILT: 1915 WITH ONLY SEGREGATED WAITING ROOM ON
THE L.I.R.R. PER TIMETABLE EFF. 05/23/1923, BAGGAGE TO AND FROM THIS STATION WAS ONLY HANDLED DURING THE SUMMER SEASON (SUMMER-ONLY AGENCY). CLOSED AND DISCONTINUED AS STATION STOP: c.1936, MOVED TO PRIVATE SITE AS
BEACH HOUSE. STILL STANDING: 2005.  Research: Dave Keller

Note: Ex-location at the current Wainscott Harbor Rd based on LIRR CR4 3/01/1919 milepost information.  Research: Steve Lynch

Built: Aug-Sept/1875. Listed on timetables of 1883 as "Water Mills" (2 words).  Listed on timetables of 1885 as "Watermills" (one word) and finally listed as "Watermill" 
until discontinued as a station stop.

2nd depot opened: 8/1903, Agency closed: 1940s.  Last listed as station stop in ETT #3, eff: 6/24/56.  Listed on LIRR station symbol card eff: 8/31/57. Structure left standing and abandoned.  
Completely renovated: 1968 for use as a dress shop.  Later became a restaurant.  2013 was externally restored to be part of office condominiums surrounding the old depot grounds.  

LINE OPENED IN 1843 BUT STOP NOT (HOLTSVILLE) LISTED ON TIMETABLES OF 1844 AND 1845. BECAME STATION STOP: __?__.
OLD STORE SOUTH OF TRACKS ON THE EAST OF WAVERLY AVE. SERVED AS ORIGINAL “WAVERLY” DEPOT. IN SVC: __?__ WITH FEMALE STATION AGENT M. E. BLOOMER (PER 1878 LIRR BOOK OF RULES).  POST OFFICE RENAMED "HOLTSVILLE" IN 1860, BUT LIRR RETAINED THE OLD NAME. PER "Babylon Signal" NEWSPAPER ARTICLE OF 03/23/1882, WAVERLY AND BARTLETT STATIONS WERE TO BE ABANDONED (Art Huneke data). ACCORDING TO A "Babylon Signal" NEWSPAPER ARTICLE OF APRIL, 1884, AFTER A TWO-YEAR PERIOD WITH NO TRAIN SERVICE, WAVERLY STATION WAS REOPENED IN THE POST OFFICE BUILDING WITH MRS. M. E. BLOOMER AGAIN THE STATION AGENT. "NEW PLATFORMS HAVE BEEN ERECTED AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS MADE" (Art Huneke data). RENAMED "HOLTSVILLE" SOMETIME IN THE MID-LATE 1890s.  DEPOT BUILDING RAZED: 1912.  Research:  Dave Keller

Photo: Arthur W. Murray Archive: Queens Public Library

BUILT: FEB-MAR/1870, MOVED TO PRIVATE LOCATION EAST OF CENTRE MORICHES STATION SITE AND NORTH SIDE OF TRACKS: 1905. (Robert Emery data)
2^ND DEPOT BUILT: 1905, 
BURNED: 1995, RENOVATED:   ? . 
FULL TIME AGENCY CLOSED:   ?  . SUNDAY AGENCY ONLY:  2006

Winfield Station c.1911 Archive: Art Huneke

FLUSHING & N. SIDE DEPOT BUILT: JULY/1854, MOVED TO WINFIELD JCT: 8/1876
2nd DEPOT BUILT: ?, RAZED: 1915
3rd DEPOT BUILT: 1915, DISCONTINUED AS STATION STOP AND RAZED 1929

   FLUSHING & N. SIDE DEPOT OPENED AT TODAY'S 39TH AVE. BETWEEN 57TH & 58TH STS. ON OLD ALIGNMENT: 11/15/1869. CLOSED: 1913 DUE TO GRADE ELIMINATION
   AND TRACK REALIGNMENT. RAZED SOMETIME AFTER.

   2ND TEMPORARY STATION IN SVC. AT TODAY'S 60TH ST & WOODSIDE AVE. ON OLD ALIGNMENT DURING TRACK ELEVATION:  04/1913.  RAZED: 11/17/1915.
   3RD AND ELEVATED STRUCTURE IN SERVICE AT TODAY'S ROOSEVELT AVE. & 61^st ST. ON NEW ALIGNMENT: 10/17/1915   (Realignment data per George Chiasson, Jr.)
 

Woodside Station 1866 NY & Flushing RR
Archive: Dave Morrison

Woodside Station looking NW c.1908 prior to the electrification project completion to Jamaica of 9/08/1910. The LIRR used the F&NS RR's depot after the 1876 merger as the LIRR's Woodside station building was not as new or as large. Archive: Dave Keller

LIRR C420 with passenger consist in tow passing the Bulova Building at Woodside Station on 8/27/1975 enroute to Jamaica. View SE  Archive: L. McEnery

Woodside Station - M3 #9874 3/17/2015 Photo/Archive: Kevin Wong