Clarenceville (LIRR station)

1891 map of Clarenceville station

Clarenceville Station was a station on the Atlantic Branch, which ran along Atlantic Avenue, of the Long Island Rail Road, located west of 111th Street in the Woodhaven section of Queens, New York City.^[1] It was originally an 1874-built Atlantic Avenue Rapid Transit station that was reopened as an LIRR station in 1905 as part of the LIRR's electrification of the Atlantic Branch, and closed in 1939, when the branch was moved underground.^[2]Richmond Hill Station to the north, at Jamaica Avenue and Lefferts Boulevard, was also originally named Clarenceville Station when it opened in 1868, but that name was changed in 1871.

References

1. ^ List of Atlantic Branch Stations, including Atlantic Avenue Rapid Transit stations (Unofficial LIRR History)
2. ^ LIRR Notice for November 1, 1939

External links

• 1905 Atlantic Branch Electrification; Woodhaven Junction to Rockaway Junction (Arrt's Arrchives)

Preceding station		LIRR		Following station
Woodhaven Junction station	Atlantic Branch (current and former locations)			Morris Park station

Coordinates: 40°41′31.2″N 73°50′07.2″W / 40.692°N 73.835333°W / 40.692; -73.835333