East Williston (LIRR station)

Infobox Station
name=East Williston
style=LIRR


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address=NY 25B and Pennsylvania Avenue
East Williston, NY
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East Williston is the first station along the Oyster Bay Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. It is located at Hillside Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue, in East Williston, New York.

East Williston station was built sometime in 1880. and closed on December 10 1996. Since then, it has operated as little more than a pair of sheltered high-level platforms with ticket vending machines and handicapped access ramps. Efforts to preserve the original station house failed when it was found to be too structurally unstable, and it was razed on December 11, 2004. Some in the community, have been considering building a whole new version of the original station house.

It is the terminus of electrification for the Oyster Bay branch. Since the rest of the branch is diesel, service is mostly provided by diesel locomotives. However, one electric train a day terminates here, for the sole purpose of third rail polishing.

MTA Long Island Bus Connections

*N22A: Jamaica-Hicksville.
*N27: Hempstead-Glen Cove.

External links

* [http://lirr42.mta.info/stationinfo.asp?station=043 Official MTA-LIRR East Williston Station Website]
* [http://www.lirr.org/lirr/html/ttn/eastwill.htm Official LIRR East Williston Timetable]
*Unofficial LIRR History Website
** [http://www.lirrhistory.com/jul993/ew1.jpgJuly 1993 Photo]
** [http://www.lirrhistory.com/jun2006/ew003.jpgJune 2006: What currently passes for East Williston Station]
*Sam Berliner III's Long Island Railroad page
** [http://home.att.net/~Berliner-Ultrasonics/lirr3etc.html#eastwill 1999 Former East Williston Station Photos] (Victorian Stations of the LIRR)
** [http://home.att.net/~Berliner-Ultrasonics/lirr6etc.html#ewillend The End of East Williston Station]

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