Woodhaven Junction (LIRR station)

Infobox Station
name=Woodhaven Junction (LIRR station)
style=LIRR


image_size=200px
image_caption=Woodhaven Junction Station Of Rockaway Branch.
address=
Woodhaven Boulevard, and Flatbush Avenue Bedford-Stuyvesant, New York
line=rail color box|system=LIRR|line=City Atlantic
rail color box|system=LIRR|line=Rockaway Beach
other=Rockaway Beach Branch
platform=2 side platforms
tracks=3
opened=December, 1942
closed=December, 1976
rebuilt=N/A Station Abandoned
electrified=1905
code=None
owned=MTA
zone=1
former=Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad
services=None

Woodhaven Junction was a station on the Atlantic Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. It was first opened by the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad in 1942. The design resembled an Independent Subway station. The tilework is of the same design; the name mosaic reads "Woodhaven". The station was used less and less after 1950, when the Rockaway Beach Branch closed after a trestle was destroyed by fire. Ridership declined, and fewer trains were scheduled to make the stop. Passengers had to walk to walk to East New York or ride buses to other nearby stations. The elevated station of the Rockaway Beach Branch closed first in 1967.

The underground station of the Atlantic Branch closed in 1976, it is still visible from passing trains.

ee also

*LIRR Atlantic Branch

*Rockaway Beach Branch

References

* [http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/abandoned/woodhaven.html Abandoned Stations - Woodhaven (Joseph Brennan)]
* [http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/Rockaway%20Line/rockline.html Former Rockaway Beach Branch, including Woodhaven Station (Forgotten New York)]