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Port Washington station
Port Washington is a station on – and the terminus of – the Long Island Rail Road's Port Washington Branch, in Port Washington, New York, United States.
The station is located on Main Street, between Haven Avenue and South Bayles Avenue – just west of Port Washington Boulevard (NY 101), and is 19.9 miles (32 km) from Pennsylvania Station in Midtown Manhattan. A pedestrian overpass links the platforms, the parking lots on both sides of the station, and Haven Avenue at its intersection with Franklin Avenue.
The construction of a train station in Port Washington was first recommended to Austin Corbin by a group of Port Washington residents in 1895, after a failed attempt to extend the existing North Side Division between Great Neck and Roslyn in 1882. Efforts to bring rail service to the community actually date back to the days of the Flushing and North Side Railroad which established an unbuilt subsidiary called the "North Shore and Port Washington Railroad" that was dissolved once the F&NS was consolidated into the Flushing, North Shore and Central Railroad in 1874.
The station was originally built on June 23, 1898, by the Great Neck and Port Washington Railroad, an LIRR subsidiary that existed between 1898 and 1902.
Beginning in 1908, trolleys operated by the New York & North Shore Traction Company served the station along Main Street, running between the community's Manhasset Bay waterfront and Mineola by way of Roslyn. These trolleys ran until 1920, when the NY&NS declared bankruptcy and all its trolleys – including the Port Washington Line – ceased to operate. As of 2026, the n23 bus follows much this former trolley line's route.
In 1913, the remainder of the Port Washington Branch – all those portions of the line from Whitestone Junction (near the present-day site of the Mets–Willets Point station, at the line's split from the former Whitestone Branch) east to Port Washington– was electrified.
The station was remodeled in 1930, and again in 1998, upon its 100th Anniversary.
On August 3, 1946, a head-on train crash at the station resulted in two deaths and 27 injuries.
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Port Washington station
Port Washington is a station on – and the terminus of – the Long Island Rail Road's Port Washington Branch, in Port Washington, New York, United States.
The station is located on Main Street, between Haven Avenue and South Bayles Avenue – just west of Port Washington Boulevard (NY 101), and is 19.9 miles (32 km) from Pennsylvania Station in Midtown Manhattan. A pedestrian overpass links the platforms, the parking lots on both sides of the station, and Haven Avenue at its intersection with Franklin Avenue.
The construction of a train station in Port Washington was first recommended to Austin Corbin by a group of Port Washington residents in 1895, after a failed attempt to extend the existing North Side Division between Great Neck and Roslyn in 1882. Efforts to bring rail service to the community actually date back to the days of the Flushing and North Side Railroad which established an unbuilt subsidiary called the "North Shore and Port Washington Railroad" that was dissolved once the F&NS was consolidated into the Flushing, North Shore and Central Railroad in 1874.
The station was originally built on June 23, 1898, by the Great Neck and Port Washington Railroad, an LIRR subsidiary that existed between 1898 and 1902.
Beginning in 1908, trolleys operated by the New York & North Shore Traction Company served the station along Main Street, running between the community's Manhasset Bay waterfront and Mineola by way of Roslyn. These trolleys ran until 1920, when the NY&NS declared bankruptcy and all its trolleys – including the Port Washington Line – ceased to operate. As of 2026, the n23 bus follows much this former trolley line's route.
In 1913, the remainder of the Port Washington Branch – all those portions of the line from Whitestone Junction (near the present-day site of the Mets–Willets Point station, at the line's split from the former Whitestone Branch) east to Port Washington– was electrified.
The station was remodeled in 1930, and again in 1998, upon its 100th Anniversary.
On August 3, 1946, a head-on train crash at the station resulted in two deaths and 27 injuries.
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