Winfield Junction (LIRR station)

Winfield Junction

Winfield Junction as seen in 2009
Location 50th Avenue and 69th Street
Maspeth, Queens
Coordinates 40°44′13″N 73°53′46″W / 40.736973°N 73.895983°W / 40.736973; -73.895983Coordinates: 40°44′13″N 73°53′46″W / 40.736973°N 73.895983°W / 40.736973; -73.895983
Original Location
Owned by LIRR
Line(s)
  Port Washington Branch
  Main Line
(City Terminal Zone)
Platforms 2 side platform
Tracks 2
Other information
Station code None
Fare zone 3
History
Opened June 1854
Closed 1929
Services

None

Preceding station   LIRR   Following station
Woodside station Port Washington Branch
(current and former locations)		 Elmhurst station
Woodside station Main Line
(current and former locations)		 Grand Street station

Winfield Junction is a junction between the Main Line and Port Washington Branch of the Long Island Rail Road in the Woodside section of Queens, New York City. Between 1854-1929 a station of the same name stood on this site.

History

Winfield Junction station was originally opened in July 1854 by the New York and Flushing Railroad on the southeast corner of 50th Avenue and 69th Street.[1] The junction's location was set the same year, when the NY&F's Main Line (now the Port Washington Branch) was built, crossing the LIRR's Main Line. By 1868 NY&F was consolidated by the Flushing and North Side Railroad, and the section west of Winfield was sold to the South Side Railroad of Long Island in 1869. This segment was abandoned in 1875. After further acquisition by the Flushing, North Shore, and Central Railroad in 1874, and then the Long Island Rail Road in 1876, the station was later moved to the junction in August 1876 where it also served the Main Line. A second station was built at some point, which was razed in 1915, and replaced with a third station the same year. Plans to close the station can be traced as far back as 1910,[2] but the station was closed and then razed in 1929, making Woodside Station the transfer point between Main Line and Port Washington Branch trains.

References

  1. ↑ "LONG ISLAND STATION HISTORY". trainsarefun.com.
  2. ↑ NEW TUBES BRING THEIR OWN TRAFFIC; Travel to Long Island Increased by 15,000 a Day, Railway Officials Declare (New York Times; Saturday, September 10, 1910)
Winfield station map, 1891


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