Beechhurst Yacht Club, the site of the former northern terminus of the Whitestone Branch
Overview
Status
Abandoned
Locale
Queens, New York City
Termini
Willets Point (south)
Whitestone (north)
Stations
5
Service
Type
Passenger and Freight
Operator(s)
Flushing and North Side Railroad Long Island Rail Road
History
Opened
1869 (1869)
Closed
February 19, 1932 (1932-02-19)
Technical
Number of tracks
1–2
Track gauge
4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
Electrification
1912[1]
Route map
The Whitestone Branch was a branch of the Long Island Rail Road, running north and east along the left bank of the Flushing River from the Port Washington Branch near the modern Willets Point/Flushing sections of Queens, New York. It crossed the river on one of the three bridges that were later torn down for the Van Wyck Expressway, then ran north along Flushing Bay and east along the East River to Whitestone.
The WhitestoneBranch was a branch of the Long Island Rail Road, running north and east along the left bank of the Flushing River from the Port Washington...
Flushing branch. In 1869, an affiliate of the Flushing and North Side, the Whitestone and Westchester Railroad, built the WhitestoneBranch. It was intended...
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line to Winfield Junction by June 23, 1910, to Whitestone Junction onto the WhitestoneBranch to Whitestone Landing Station by October 22, 1912, and to its...
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Washington Branch near Mets–Willets Point station and ran north and east to Whitestone. The Woodside Branch ran north of the current Port Washington Branch between...
Whitestone Landing was the terminal station on the WhitestoneBranch from its opening on August 9, 1886, to the WhitestoneBranch's abandonment in February...
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Whitestone station was located on the WhitestoneBranch of the Long Island Rail Road in Whitestone, in Queens of New York City. The station was located...
located on the former right of way of the Long Island Rail Road's WhitestoneBranch. Plans for this expansion are on an indefinite hold, however. 40°45′10″N...
went directly under the Roosevelt Avenue bridge. The LIRR's former WhitestoneBranch was carried by a single-tracked wooden trestle north of the Roosevelt...
Washington Branch interchange. The Q44 shifts onto Union Street and Parsons Boulevard to 14th Avenue in Whitestone. It then enters the Bronx–Whitestone Bridge...
adjacent to the IRT Flushing Line and Whitestone Landing operating over the Long Island Rail Road's WhitestoneBranch. The line would have been under private...
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