Woodside (LIRR station)

Infobox Station
name=Woodside
style=LIRR


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address= 61st Street & Roosevelt Avenue
Woodside, NY
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other=New York City Subway
NYCS-bull-small|7 at Woodside–61st Street
NYCT Bus, MTA Bus
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tracks=6
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opened=November 15, 1869Vincent F. Seyfried, , © 1963]
closed=1914
rebuilt=1915, 1999
electrified=June 16, 1910
ADA=Yes
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owned=MTA(LIRR)
zone=1
services=s-rail|title=LIRR
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Woodside is a railroad station on the Long Island Rail Road's Main Line in the Woodside neighborhood of Queens. Woodside is the first station east of Pennsylvania Station (New York City), and is the only Queens station on the Long Island Rail Road that serves both the Port Washington Branch and the other LIRR branches that begin east of Jamaica Station. East of Woodside, the two-track Port Washington Branch splits off the Main Line, bypassing Jamaica, while the four-track Main Line continues on a south-easterly course to Jamaica Station.

Woodside has six tracks and three platforms. The four southernmost tracks passing through the station are the Main Line tracks; the two center tracks are through (express) tracks and do not have platform faces at Woodside. The two northernmost tracks are the Port Washington branch tracks, both of which have platforms. West of the station, the line merges with Amtrak's Hell Gate Bridge access tracks (part of the Northeast Corridor) at Harold Interlocking before entering the East River Tunnels to Manhattan. The Woodside–61st Street Access icon (NYCS Flushing) station is located above Woodside station, on a high viaduct above Roosevelt Avenue. The station is ADA wheelchair accessible, by means of elevator, escalator, and ramps.

Woodside Station was originally built by the Flushing and North Side Railroad on November 15, 1869. Though the line was electrified on June 16, 1910, the station was closed in 1914 due to a grade elimination project and razed on November 17 1915. Luckily, the existing elevated station was opened on October 17, 1915. A restoration project took place in 1999.

Bus & Rail Connections

New York City Subway:
* Woodside–61st Street station on the IRT Flushing Line (NYCS Flushing)

NYCT Bus:
* Q32: via Roosevelt and Fifth Avenues to Penn Station, Manhattan or to Northern Boulevard, Jackson Heights.

MTA Bus Company:
* Q18: to Maspeth or via 30th Avenue to Astoria
* Q53: via Woodhaven Boulevard to Rockaway Park – Beach 116th Street

References

External links

* [http://lirr42.mta.info/stationinfo.asp?station=009 LIRR station information for Woodside]