Greenvale station

Greenvale
Greenvale
	The station at Greenvale, facing Glen Head-bound on the Oyster Bay-bound platform in June 2012.
Location	Between Glen Cove Avenue & Plaza Road north of Helen Street; Roslyn Harbor, NY
Coordinates	40°48′56″N 73°37′37″W / 40.815547°N 73.626916°WCoordinates: 40°48′56″N 73°37′37″W / 40.815547°N 73.626916°W
Owned by	Long Island Rail Road
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	Nassau Inter-County Express: n27
Construction
Parking	Yes; Village of Roslyn Harbor Permits and Metered Parking
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	7
History
Opened	1866 (freight only); 1875, 1880s (passenger service)
Previous names	Week's
Passengers
2006	262
Services
Former services

Greenvale is a station along the Oyster Bay Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. The station is officially located off Helen Street, between Glen Cove Avenue and Glen Cove Road in Roslyn Harbor, New York.

History[]

Greenvale station was originally established by the Glen Cove Branch Rail Road on July 21, 1866, as "Week's station," a freight-only station primarily used for delivering milk. Passengers were briefly allowed at the station in 1875, and then again sometime during the 1880s.^[2]^[3] At some point, the station was renamed "Greenvale." The passenger station has never existed as anything else other than a sheltered platform. On May 17, 1891, it was demolished by a locomotive that collided with a horse whose hoof was stuck in the switching apparatus, resulting in both the death of the horse and two crew members. Eventually the station was replaced.^[4] New shelters were built on both sides of the tracks in 2000 on high-level platforms designed to accommodate the disabled, as well as future electrified trains.

Station layout[]

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

Platform A, side platform
Track 1	← Oyster Bay Branch toward Jamaica, Long Island City, or Penn Station (Roslyn)
Track 2	← Oyster Bay Branch toward Oyster Bay (Glen Head) →
Platform B, side platform

References[]

^ Average weekday, 2006 LIRR Origin and Destination Study^{[full citation needed]}
^ "LIRR station history" (PDF). TrainsAreFun.com.
^ Seyfried, Vincent. "The Long Island Rail Road: The age of expansion, 1863-1880". p. 203. Archived from the original on December 20, 2014.
^ "Long Island Rail Road Wrecks". TrainsAreFun.com.