Woodside (LIRR station)
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| Location: | Woodside, Queens |
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| Line(s): | Main Line and Port Washington Branch |
| Opened: | November 15, 1869[1] |
| Electrified: | June 16, 1910 |
Woodside is a railroad station on the Long Island Rail Road's Main Line in the Woodside neighborhood of Queens. Woodside is the first station east of Pennsylvania Station (New York City), and is the only Queens station on the Long Island Rail Road that serves both the Port Washington Branch and the other LIRR branches that begin east of Jamaica Station. East of Woodside, the two-track Port Washington Branch splits off the Main Line, bypassing Jamaica, while the four-track Main Line continues on a south-easterly course to Jamaica Station.
Woodside has six tracks and three platforms. The four southernmost tracks passing through the station are the Main Line tracks; the two center tracks are through (express) tracks and do not have platform faces at Woodside. The two northernmost tracks are the Port Washington branch tracks, both of which have platforms. West of the station, the line merges with Amtrak's Hell Gate Bridge access tracks (part of the Northeast Corridor) at Harold Interlocking before entering the East River Tunnels to Manhattan. The 61st Street-Woodside (7) station is located above Woodside station, on a high viaduct above Roosevelt Avenue.
The station is ADA wheelchair accessible.
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- ^ Vincent F. Seyfried, The Long Island Rail Road: A Comprehensive History, Part Two: The Flushing, North Shore & Central Railroad, © 1963
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