Aqueduct–North Conduit Avenue (IND Rockaway Line)

Infobox NYCS
name = Aqueduct–North Conduit Avenue
bg_color = #11117D
line = IND Rockaway Line
service = Rockaway north
platforms = 2 side platforms
tracks = 4
borough = Queens
open_date = 1883 as an LIRR station [ [http://www.trainsarefun.com/lirrphotos/LIRR%20Station%20History.htm LIRR Station History] ]
June 28, 1956 as a subway station
north_station = Rockaway Boulevard
north_line = IND Fulton Street Line
north_service = Rockaway north
north_custom_station = NYCS next|type=Aqueduct racing days|station=Aqueduct Racetrack|line=IND Rockaway Line|service=Rockaway north
south_station = Howard Beach-JFK
south_station_acc = yes
south_line = IND Rockaway Line
south_service = Rockaway north

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Aqueduct–North Conduit Avenue is a station on the IND Rockaway Line of the New York City Subway, served at all times by the NYCS|A train. The station has two side platforms, four tracks (only the two outer ones are in revenue service), one mezzanine, and a cross-under at street level. The mezzanine and stairs to the full time area are at the extreme south end of this station. There is an additional exit-only at north end of Rockaway-bound platform that leads to the Aqueduct Racetrack. It currently has a chain link fence. The platforms are extra long, about 800 feet in length, which is 200 feet more than a standard IND platform length.

History

The station was originally built by the New York, Woodhaven and Rockaway Railroad in 1883 as Aqueduct station along what would become the former Long Island Rail Road Rockaway Beach Branch in 1887, and was taken out of service on November 29, 1939 as part of a grade elimination project. A temporary center-island station was built west of the between that date and the opening of the new high-level station on September 24, 1940. This station was located 26 feet south of the previous station. On October 3, 1955, and like most of the Rockaway Beach Branch was acquired by the New York City Transit Authority and reponed as a subway station along the IND Rockaway Line on June 28, 1956. Evidence of the stations previous incarnation can be found with Long Island Rail Road-type exit steps near the south end, and the aforementioned longer platforms.

Bus connections

*Q11
*B15 (westbound only) according to [http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/answers2/frontend.php/question?qid=20070923161941AAbHj3X] [http://talk.nycsubway.org/perl/read?subtalk=532742] [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.travel.usa-canada/msg/1b75b8488cfd80fc]
*Free NYRA shuttle bus to Aqueduct Racetrack clubhouse entrance on race days

References

External links

*NYCS ref|http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?209:517|IND Rockaway|Aqueduct/North Conduit Avenue
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/arock.htm A Rockaway]