Glendale (LIRR station)

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Glendale was a station along the Montauk Branch that runs from Long Island City, Queens to Jamaica, Queens, in the state of New York. The station was located at Edsall Avenue and 73rd Street at the All Faiths Monuments factory for the Queens Lutheran Cemetery in Glendale, Queens. It opened around June 1869 (although some sources claim it was built in 1868) and contained a small station house along the eastbound tracks. In January 1927, the LIRR razed the station and months later the name was moved to a new station on the Rockaway Beach Branch on September 15, 1927. The name would last for over a month until it was changed to Parkside Station on October 23, 1927,[1] and Glendale was returned to the Montauk Branch as a wooden sheltered shed along the westbound tracks by 1928. The wooden shed was replaced by corrugated iron during World War II. Glendale station closed on March 16, 1998 along with Penny Bridge, Haberman, Fresh Pond and Richmond Hill Stations.[2]

References

  1. ↑ The Long Island Rail Road: A Comprehensive History Volume #5; New York, Woodhaven & Rockaway Railroad; New York & Rockaway Beach railway; New York & Long Beach Railroad; New York & Rockaway railroad; Brooklyn rapid transit operation to Rockaway; Over L.I.R.R., by Vincent F. Seyfried
  2. ↑ Sengupta, Somini (March 15, 1998). "End of the Line for L.I.R.R.'s 10 Loneliest Stops". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-08-07. 

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Preceding station   LIRR   Following station
Ridgewood station Montauk Branch
(current and former locations)		 Richmond Hill station

Coordinates: 40°42′23.8″N 73°52′41.6″W / 40.706611°N 73.878222°W / 40.706611; -73.878222


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