Greenvale station
40°48′56″N 73°37′37″W / 40.815547°N 73.626916°W / 40.815547; -73.626916
1875, 1880s (passenger service)
Preceding station | Long Island Rail Road | Following station | ||
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Roslyn toward Penn Station or Long Island City | Oyster Bay Branch | Glen Head toward Oyster Bay |
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Greenvale is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Oyster Bay Branch. The station is located off Helen Street, between Glen Cove Avenue and Glen Cove Road in the Incorporated Village of Roslyn Harbor, in Nassau County, New York.
History
Greenvale station was originally established by the Glen Cove Branch Rail Road on July 21, 1866, as "Week's station," a freight-only station primarily used for delivering milk.[3] Passengers were briefly allowed at the station in 1875, and then again sometime during the 1880s.[3][4][5] At some point, the station was renamed "Greenvale." The passenger station has never existed as anything else other than a sheltered platform.[3] On May 17, 1891, it was demolished by a locomotive that collided with a horse whose hoof was stuck in the switching apparatus, resulting in both the death of the horse and two crew members.[6] Eventually the station was replaced.[3][7]
New shelters were built on both sides of the tracks in 2000 on high-level platforms that were installed in 1997 to make the station compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and compatible with the railroad's new C3 bilevel railcars.
Station layout
The Greenvale station is located partially at ground level and partially built on an embankment. It has two high-level side platforms, each four cars long.
P Platform level | Platform A, side platform | |
Track 1 | ← Oyster Bay Branch toward Long Island City or Penn Station (Roslyn) | |
Track 2 | ← Oyster Bay Branch toward Oyster Bay (Glen Head) → | |
Platform B, side platform | ||
G | Ground level | Exit/entrance, parking lots, and buses |
M | Mezzanine | Underpass between platforms |
References
- ^ Long Island Rail Road (May 14, 2012). "TIMETABLE No. 4" (PDF). p. VI. Retrieved August 7, 2022.
- ^ Average weekday, 2006 LIRR Origin and Destination Study[full citation needed]
- ^ a b c d Morrison, David D. (March 5, 2018). Long Island Rail Road: Oyster Bay Branch. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9781467128544.
- ^ "LIRR station history" (PDF). TrainsAreFun.com.
- ^ Seyfried, Vincent. "The Long Island Rail Road: The age of expansion, 1863-1880". p. 203. Archived from the original on December 20, 2014.
- ^ "A LOCOMOTIVE BLOWN UP; FATAL EXPLOSION AT THE OYSTER BAY STATION. THE ENGINEER, FIREMAN, AND REAR BRAKEMAN KILLED AND TWO OTHERS INJURED -- THE ENGINE DESTROYED - - THE STATION DAMAGED". The New York Times. September 10, 1891. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 17, 2023.
- ^ "Long Island Rail Road Wrecks". TrainsAreFun.com.
External links
- Greenvale – LIRR
- Greenvale LIRR timetable
- Unofficial LIRR History Website
- 1937 Greenvale Station Photo[usurped]
- 2000 Reconstruction[usurped]
- June 2006 from parking lot[usurped] and from shelters[usurped]
- Station from Google Maps Street View
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