Greenvale station
Greenvale | |||||||||||
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 The station at Greenvale, facing Glen Head-bound on the Oyster Bay-bound platform in June 2012. | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | Between Glen Cove Avenue & Plaza Road north of Helen Street Greenvale, NY | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°48′56″N 73°37′37″W / 40.815547°N 73.626916°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Long Island Rail Road | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| Connections |  Nassau Inter-County Express: n27 | ||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||
| Parking | Yes; Village of Roslyn Harbor Permits and Metered Parking | ||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 7 | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 1866 (freight only) 1875, 1880s (passenger service) | ||||||||||
| Previous names | Week's | ||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||
| 2006 | 262[1] | ||||||||||
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Greenvale is a station along the Oyster Bay Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. The station is officially located off Helen Street, between Glen Cove Avenue and Glen Cove Road, Greenvale, 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. Passengers were briefly allowed at the station in 1875, and then again sometime during the 1880s.[2][3] At some point, the station was renamed "Greenvale." The passenger station has never existed as anything else other than a sheltered platform. 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. Eventually the station was replaced.[4] New shelters were built on both sides of the tracks in 2000 on high-level platforms designed to accommodate the disabled, as well as future electrified trains.
Station layout
This station has two high-level side platforms, each four cars long.
Platform A, side platform 
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| Track 1 | ← Oyster Bay Branch toward Jamaica, Long Island City, or Penn Station (Roslyn) |
| Track 2 | Oyster Bay Branch toward Oyster Bay (Glen Head) → |
| Platform B, side platform
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References
- ^ Average weekday, 2006 LIRR Origin and Destination Study
- ^ LIRR station history
- ^ The Long Island Rail Road: The age of expansion, 1863-1880 Vincent Seyfried Page 203 Archived 2014-12-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Long Island Rail Road Wrecks (TrainsAreFun.com)
External links
- Greenvale – LIRR
- Greenvale LIRR timetable
- Unofficial LIRR History Website
- Station from Google Maps Street View
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