Glen Head station explained

Glen Head
Style:Long Island Rail Road
Address:Glen Head Road & School Street
Glen Head, New York
Coordinates:40.8323°N -73.6261°W
Line:Oyster Bay Branch
Distance:25.4miles from [1]
Other: Nassau Inter-County Express:
(four blocks west on Glen Cove Avenue)
Platform:2 side platforms
Tracks:2
Parking:Yes
Passengers:549[2]
Pass Year:2006
Opened:January 23, 1865
Rebuilt:1888, 1961
Accessible:yes
Owned:Long Island Rail Road
Zone:7
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Custom:
Shape:none
Line:none
Marker:rail
Zoom:14

Glen Head is a station on the Oyster Bay Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. It is located at Glen Head Road (Glenwood Road) and School Street in Glen Head, in Nassau County, New York.

Parking is available at the Glen Head station between Glen Head Road and Locust Avenue on the east side of the tracks – as well as between Glen Head Road and Walnut Avenue on the west side of the tracks.

History

The Glen Head station opened on January 23, 1865, initially serving as the northern terminus of the Glen Cove Branch Rail Road.[3] [4] Glen Head served as the terminus of the line until 1867, when it was extended further north. Its initial status as the branch's terminus – the "head of the rails" – gave the hamlet of Glen Head its current name.[5] In July 1866, the Post Office changed the old name of the community from Cedar Swamp to Greenvale, but in February 1874 made another change, renaming the hamlet as Glenwood. The Long Island Rail Road has always used the name Glen Head, and the name prevailed.

A new station building was opened in May 1888. It was a two-story red brick structure and contained elaborate gingerbread woodwork along the canopies. It was rebuilt again midway through 1961 with the current one-story cedar-shingled depot.[6]

Station layout

The station has two high-level side platforms, each four cars long.

Platform A, side platform
Track 1← toward,, or
Track 2 toward
Platform B, side platform

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: TIMETABLE No. 4 . Long Island Rail Road . May 14, 2012 . August 7, 2022 . VI.
  2. Average weekday, 2006 LIRR Origin and Destination Study
  3. Web site: Seyfried . Vincent . The Long Island Rail Road: The age of expansion, 1863-1880 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20141220134501/http://digitalarchives.queenslibrary.org/vital/access/services/Download/aql%3A337/SOURCE1?view=true . 2014-12-20 . 203.
  4. Book: Morrison, David D. . Long Island Rail Road: Oyster Bay Branch . March 5, 2018 . Arcadia Publishing . 9781467128544 . en.
  5. Book: Winsche, Richard . The History of Nassau County Community Place-Names . October 1, 1999 . Empire State Books . 978-1557871541 . .
  6. Book: Morrison, David D. . Long Island Rail Road Stations . Pakaluk . Valerie . Arcadia Publishing . 2003 . 0-7385-1180-3 . Images of Rail . Chicago . 59 . 2011-11-25.