Glen Head (LIRR station)

Glen Head

Glen Head Station in 2016
Location Glen Head Road & School Street
Glen Head, NY
Coordinates 40°49′56″N 73°37′34″W / 40.832284°N 73.626128°W / 40.832284; -73.626128Coordinates: 40°49′56″N 73°37′34″W / 40.832284°N 73.626128°W / 40.832284; -73.626128
Owned by MTA
Line(s)
  Oyster Bay Branch
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 2
Connections Nassau Inter-County Express: n27
(four blocks west on Glen Cove Avenue)
Construction
Parking Yes
Disabled access Yes
Other information
Fare zone 7
History
Opened January 23, 1865
Rebuilt 1888, 1961
Traffic
Passengers (2006) 549[1]
Services
Preceding station   LIRR   Following station
Oyster Bay Branch
toward Oyster Bay
The station's appearance in 2009

Glen Head is a station along the Oyster Bay Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. It is officially located at Glen Head Road (Glenwood Rd.) and School Street in Glen Head, New York. However, parking is available between Glen Head Road and Locust Avenue on the east side of the tracks and between Glen Head Road and Walnut Avenue on the west side of the tracks.

The village of Glen Head (and the station that serves it) got its name from being the initial terminus "head of the rails" for the Glen Cove Branch from January 23, 1865, to 1867. In July 1866 the Post Office changed the old name of the town from Cedar Swamp to Greenvale, but in Feb. 1874 mad another change to Glenwood. The railroad used the name Glen Head always and this has prevailed.[2] A new station building was opened in May 1888. The station was rebuilt in May 1888, as a two-story red brick structure and contained elaborate gingerbread woodwork along the canopies, similar to that of Yaphank Station. It was rebuilt again midway through 1961 with the current one-story cedar-shingled depot.

Platforms and tracks

1 ■ Oyster Bay Branch toward New York (Greenvale)
2 ■ Oyster Bay Branch toward Oyster Bay (Sea Cliff)

The station has two high-level side platforms, each four cars long. The west platform, next to Track 1, is generally used by southbound or New York City-bound trains. The east platform next to Track 2 is generally used by northbound or Oyster Bay-bound trains. The Oyster Bay Branch has two tracks.

References

  1. ↑ Average weekday, 2006 LIRR Origin and Destination Study
  2. ↑ The Long Island Rail Road: The age of expansion, 1863-1880 Vincent Seyfried Page 203
View of Glen Head station from a railroad crossing.


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