Floral Park is a Long Island Rail Road train station in Floral Park, New York at Tulip and Atlantic Avenues, on the Main Line and Hempstead Branch just west of their split. Most trains serving this station run to or from Hempstead, but limited trains on Oyster Bay Branch and Port Jefferson Branch stop here on weekday mornings. The station is not wheelchair accessible.
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History
The first Floral Park station was built between October and November 1878 as "Stewart Junction," for the junction between the LIRR Main Line and the Central Railroad of Long Island built by Alexander Turney Stewart. Five years earlier the CRRLI had bridged the LIRR, and the station served as a connection between both lines. Connecting tracks were available at the southwest corner of the bridge at the station, and on the northwest corner of the bridge west of the station. It was renamed "Hinsdale" in 1879 with the closing of the CRRLI depot of the same name along the Creedmoor Branch, then renamed "East Hinsdale" in 1887. That same year, the station gained a control tower known as "Tower #47." Apparently due to the presence of the florist John Lewis Childs, the station was renamed "Floral Park" by 1890. Tower #47 was replaced with the "FK Tower" in 1904, the station itself was razed in 1909, and a second station was rebuilt and relocated the same year in July. In 1924, the LIRR replaced the FK Tower with the Park Tower, and rebuilt it again in 1946. The third and current elevated structure was built in 1960, as the second one was razed on October 20 of that same year.
The ticket office at this station was staffed until August 19, 2009 when it was closed during cost cutting measures across the MTA.
As part of the construction of a third track along the Main Line, this station will be rebuilt, and will receive elevators, making it ADA-accessible.
Maps Floral Park station
Station layout
This station has three high-level platforms serving four tracks. Main Line trains use the two northernmost tracks, while Hempstead Branch trains use the two southernmost tracks. Platform A is eight cars long, generally used by westbound Main Line trains. Platform B is a 10 cars long and is generally used for eastbound Main Line trains (on Track 2B) and westbound Hempstead trains (on Track 1B). Platform C is also 10 cars long and serves eastbound Hempstead trains.
References
External links
- Official LIRR station information page for Floral Park
- Station timetable for Floral Park
- Floral Park Station History (TrainsAreFun)
- Carnation Avenue entrance (west) from Google Maps Street View
- Station House and entrance (middle) from Google Maps Street View
- Tulip Avenue entrance (east) from Google Maps Street View
- Platforms from Google Maps Street View
- Platform waiting room from Google Maps Street
Source of article : Wikipedia
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