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THE CENTRAL BRANCH and BELMONT JUNCTION
PART OF THE CENTRAL EXTENSION UNTIL 1925 WHEN THEY WERE
DISCONNECTED AND THE CENTRAL BRANCH WAS REBUILT.
SERVICE BETWEEN BETHPAGE JUNCTION AND THE CENTRAL RAIL ROAD'S
BABYLON STATION IS COVERED ON THE STEWART LINE PAGE ONE.
THANKS TO BOB RICKEY FOR THIS 1930 IMAGE
HEMPSTEAD TURNPIKE (FULTON STREET) AND MERRITS ROAD CROSSING GATES WERE
OPERATED BY THE SAME CROSSING WATCHMAN. THIS IS LOOKING EAST (SOUTH).
LOOKING WEST ALONG HEMPSTEAD TURNPIKE
LOOKING EAST ALONG HEMPSTEAD TURNPIKE
THE SWINGING GATES NO DOUBT WERE SWUNG ACROSS
THE TROLLEY TRACKS AND CROSSING BY TRAIN CREWS.
SOUTH FARMINGDALE STATION
1873 - 1898 and 1936 - 1974
AMITYVILLE ROAD HAD BECOME MAIN STREET.
BOB RICKEY SENDS ALONG A PHOTOGRAPH OF SOUTH FARMINGDALE STATION c1940'S
MAIN STREET CROSSING OCTOBER 22, 1978
MAYWOOD
MILE A MINUTE MURPHY MADE HIS HISTORIC HIGH SPEED BIKE RIDE IN THIS AREA.
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MAYWOOD DEPOT APPEARS ON A LATE 19TH CENTURY MAP AT THE PRESENT-DAY LOCATION OF THE BROAD HOLLOW ROAD (RT. 110) CROSSING HOWEVER TIMETABLES DO NOT LIST A STATION FOR PSGR.SERVICE. “MAYWOOD SIDING” IS INDICATED IN CR4 BOOKS WHICH LIST SIDINGS AND WAS USED PROBABLY AS A TEAM TRACK. IT IS DOUBTFUL THAT A FREIGHT DEPOT WAS IN USE AS THE SIDING IS INDICATED IN THE CR4 AS BEING HANDLED BY THE AGENT AT FARMINGDALE. THE SIDING WAS GONE BY THE LATE 1920s AND THE GRADE CROSSING ELIMINATED.
TWO MAPS FROM BOB RICKEY: 1902
AND 1915
MAYWOOD SIDING WAS LOCATED AT BROAD HOLLOW ROAD
BROAD HOLLOW ROAD CROSSING DECEMBER 12, 1928 - MAYWOOD SIDING IS GONE
BROAD HOLLOW ROAD CROSSING MARCH 13, 1929
PREPARATIONS BEING MADE FOR ELIMINATING THE GRADE CROSSING.
ROUTE 110 CROSSES ROUTE 109 AND L.I.R.R. CENTRAL BRANCH
BRESLAU
LOCATED EAST OF WELLWOOD AVENUE - NOTE THE WIDTH OF PROPERTY
THE 66 FOOT ROW IS WIDENED TO 100 FEET.
THIS MAP FROM 1873 SHOWS BRESLAU STATION
WEST NECK ROAD CROSSING - LATER ALBANY AVENUE
BELMONT JUNCTION
THE C.R.R.L.I. CROSSED THE SOUTH SIDE RAILROAD AT BELMONT JUNCTION.
AFTER THOSE ROADS WERE MERGED A CONNECTION WAS INSTALLED AND THE
TRACK WAS REMOVED SOUTH OF THE CROSSING. A PASSENGER STATION EXISTED
FROM 1873 UNTIL AT LEAST 1880. "LONG ISLAND AND WHERE TO GO" FROM 1877
SHOWS A DEPOT AND TELEGRAPH OFFICE WITH FIVE DAILY TRAINS EACH WAY.
EMPLOYE TIME TABLE NUMBER 22 OF JUNE 1885 SHOWS A TELEGRAPH OFFICE BUT NO
TRAINS STOPPING. BY 1896 BELMONT JUNCTION IS NO LONGER IN THE TIMETABLES.
THE PROPOSED CENTRAL RAILROAD OF LONG ISLAND LINE TO THE FIRE
ISLAND DOCK IS SHOWN ON THE BEERS ATLAS. THE TERMINAL WAS
ERECTED OPPOSITE THE WATSON HOUSE. THE BABYLON RAILROAD
HORSE CAR LINE RUNNING THROUGH FIRE ISLAND AVENUE IS ALSO SHOWN.
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THIS 1916 PLAN SHOWS THE C.R.R.L.I. PROPERTY NORTH OF THE MONTAUK DIVISION.
NOTICE HOW BOTH MONTAUK DIVISION TRACKS WERE REALIGNED
TOWARD THE SOUTH WHEN THE CENTRAL WAS BROUGHT ALONGSIDE.
GREAT EAST NECK ROAD CROSSING
WHERE THE CENTRAL RAIL ROAD CROSSED THE SOUTH SIDE RAILROAD.
SERVICE BETWEEN BETHPAGE JUNCTION AND THE CENTRAL RAIL ROAD'S
BABYLON STATION IS COVERED ON THE STEWART LINE PAGE ONE.
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