Greenvale station

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 Roslyn Harbor, New York.

Greenvale
The station at Greenvale, facing Glen Head-bound on the Oyster Bay-bound platform in June 2012.
General information
LocationBetween Glen Cove Avenue & Plaza Road north of Helen Street
Greenvale, NY
Coordinates40.815547°N 73.626916°W / 40.815547; -73.626916
Owned byLong Island Rail Road
Line(s)Oyster Bay Branch
Distance24.2 mi (38.9 km) from Long Island City[1]
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
ConnectionsLocal Transit Nassau Inter-County Express: n27
Construction
ParkingYes; Village of Roslyn Harbor Permits and Metered Parking
AccessibleYes
Other information
Fare zone7
History
Opened1866 (freight only)
1875, 1880s (passenger service)
Previous namesWeek's
Passengers
2006262[2]
Services
Preceding station Long Island Rail Road Following station
Roslyn
toward Penn Station or Long Island City
 Oyster Bay Branch Glen Head
toward Oyster Bay
Former services
Preceding station Long Island
Rail Road		 Following station
North Roslyn
toward Mineola
 Oyster Bay Branch Glen Head
toward Oyster Bay

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.[3][4] 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.[5] New shelters were built on both sides of the tracks in 2000 on high-level platforms that were installed to make the station compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

Station layout

This station has two high-level side platforms, each four cars long.

Platform A, side platform Disabled access
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 Disabled access

References
  1. Long Island Rail Road (May 14, 2012). "TIMETABLE No. 4" (PDF). p. VI. Retrieved August 7, 2022.
  2. Average weekday, 2006 LIRR Origin and Destination Study
  3. "LIRR station history" (PDF). TrainsAreFun.com.
  4. Seyfried, Vincent. "The Long Island Rail Road: The age of expansion, 1863-1880". p. 203. Archived from the original on December 20, 2014.
  5. "Long Island Rail Road Wrecks". TrainsAreFun.com.


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