Greenvale station

Greenvale
Greenvale
	The Greenvale station, as seen in 2016.
General information
Location	Between Glen Cove Avenue & Plaza Road north of Helen Street; Roslyn Harbor, NY
Coordinates	40°48′56″N73°37′37″W / 40.815547°N 73.626916°W
Owned by	Long Island Rail Road
Line(s)	Oyster Bay Branch
Distance	24.2 mi (38.9 km) from Long Island City
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
Other information
Station code	GVL
Fare zone	7
History
Opened	1866 (freight only); 1875, 1880s (passenger service)
Rebuilt	1997
Previous names	Week's
Passengers
2006	262
Services
Former services
Location
Location

Last updated August 18, 2024

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.^[3]

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

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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 ]}
1 2 3 4 5 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.

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[ett-20120514-1] 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^{[ full citation needed ]}

[:02-3] 1 2 3 4 5 Morrison, David D. (March 5, 2018). Long Island Rail Road: Oyster Bay Branch. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9781467128544.

[4] "LIRR station history" (PDF). TrainsAreFun.com.

[5] Seyfried, Vincent. "The Long Island Rail Road: The age of expansion, 1863-1880". p. 203. Archived from the original on December 20, 2014.

[6] "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.

[7] "Long Island Rail Road Wrecks". TrainsAreFun.com.

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