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Far Rockaway Branch
	; Far Rockaway Branch train 2820 departing Cedarhurst Station.;
Overview
Type	Commuter rail
System	Long Island Rail Road
Status	Operational
Locale	; Queens and Nassau County, New York, USA;
Termini	Valley Stream; Far Rockaway
Stations	7
Services	; Far Rockaway Branch;
Operation
Opened	1869 (as part of South Side Railroad of Long Island)
Owner	Long Island Rail Road
Operator(s)	Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Technical
Number of tracks	2
Track gauge	; 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
Electrification	750 V (DC) third rail;
Route map
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	Atlantic Branch
	to Atlantic Terminal;
	Main Line
	to Penn Station & Long Island City;
	AirTrain JFK
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	17.4 km
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	21.1 km
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	22.2 km
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	25.3 km
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	29.9 km
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	31.4 km
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The Far Rockaway Branch is an electrified rail line and service owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in the U.S. state of New York. The branch begins at Valley Interlocking, just east of Valley Stream station. From Valley Stream, the line heads south and southwest through southwestern Nassau County, ending at Far Rockaway in Queens, thus reentering New York City. LIRR maps and schedules indicate that the Far Rockaway Branch service continues west along the Atlantic Branch to Jamaica.^[1]^[2] This two-track branch provides all day service in both directions to the Atlantic Terminal (at Flatbush Avenue) in Brooklyn, with limited weekday peak service to/from Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan. During peak hours, express service may bypass Jamaica station.

History

The Far Rockaway Branch initially extended west to Rockaway Park. In 1887, a connection was built to the Rockaway Beach Branch at Hammels, and the older Far Rockaway Branch was abandoned west of Hammels.^[3]

LIRR train at the existing terminus in Far Rockaway.

Opening

The South Side Railroad (SSRLI) built the branch in 1869 under a subsidiary called the Far Rockaway Branch Railroad. While constructing it in summer 1869, the company installed about 700 feet (200 m) of tracks across William B. McManus's farmland near Lawrence. However, the transaction had not been completed, and McManus and some friends tore up the track the next night; after a legal battle, the company paid McManus.^[4]^:30 The same year, the South Side established a subsidiary named the Hempstead and Rockaway Railroad (H&R) designed to connect the line to the up-and-coming Southern Hempstead Branch. The H&R was dissolved in 1871.

Expansion

Due to the success of the branch, the South Side built the 200-foot (60 m) South Side Pavilion, a restaurant on the beach at what is today Beach 30th Street. With an additional subsidiary known as the Rockaway Railway (1871-1872; Not to be confused with the Rockaway Village Railroad), the line was extended west to the Seaside House (Beach 103rd Street) in 1872 and Neptune House (Beach 116th Street) in 1875.^[4]^:30-32 The Far Rockaway Branch, along with the rest of the South Side Railroad, was acquired by the Long Island Rail Road in 1876.

Two stations on the branch were built as Arverne, both of which were built by Remington Vernam. The first of which was in 1888 at Gaston Avenue (Beach 67th Street). It had a large tower, was shaped like a Victorian hotel and had a connection to the Ocean Electric Railway, as did much of the Rockaway Beach and Far Rockaway branches. Due to a quarrel between the LIRR and Vernam, another Arverne Station was built at Straiton Avenue in 1892. From then on, the original Arverne station was known as Arverne-Gaston Avenue to distinguish it from the Arverne-Straiton Avenue.^[5]

In 1908, the line between Cedarhurst and Far Rockaway was triple-tracked.^[6]^:19 During the early 1940s, the right-of-way was relocated from a ground-level routing to a concrete trestle. The ROW crossed Mott Avenue in Far Rockaway and returned to ground level, passing over Nameoke Street, continuing to Gibson Station and ascending back on a trestle to Valley Stream.

End of Jamaica Bay service

Until 1950 trains from Penn Station could leave the Main Line at Whitepot Junction (40°43′31″N 73°51′39″W / 40.7254°N 73.8608°W / 40.7254; -73.8608) and head south past the Atlantic Branch connection at Woodhaven Junction (40°41′14″N 73°50′36″W / 40.6871°N 73.8433°W / 40.6871; -73.8433) to the Hammels Wye at 40°35′29″N 73°48′32″W / 40.5913°N 73.8088°W / 40.5913; -73.8088, turning right there to Rockaway Park or left to Valley Stream and Jamaica and maybe on to Penn Station. Frequent fires and maintenance problems, notably a May 23, 1950 fire between Broad Channel and The Raunt, led the LIRR to abandon the Queens portion of the route on October 3, 1955, which was acquired by the city to become the IND Rockaway Line, with service provided by the A train.^[7] Most Queens stations along the former Far Rockaway and Rockaway Beach Branches reopened as subway stations on June 28, 1956,^[8] the exception being Far Rockaway–Mott Avenue station, which was split between the NYCTA and LIRR on January 16, 1958.^[9]

Recent changes

Between the late 1960s and 1990s, various stations along the Far Rockaway Branch were given high-level platforms in order to accommodate modern M1, M3, and M7 railcars.

The Far Rockaway Branch has the distinction of containing the oldest surviving railroad station on Long Island, and the only existing building constructed by an LIRR predecessor, specifically Hewlett. In 2003, the LIRR closed that station replacing it with a new one diagonally across the railroad crossing on Franklin Avenue; however, the original SSRLI Depot has remained intact.

Stations

Zone	Station	Miles (km) from NYP^[10]	Date opened	Date closed	Connections / notes
1	For continuing service to points west, see City Terminal Zone
3	Jamaica	11.2 (18.0)	1876		LIRR; Atlantic, Babylon, Belmont Park, Hempstead, Long Beach, Montauk, Oyster Bay, Port Jefferson, Ronkonkoma, and West Hempstead Branches NYC Subway: (at Sutphin Boulevard–Archer Avenue–JFK Airport) NYCT Bus: Q20A, Q20B, Q24, Q30, Q31, Q43, Q44 SBS, Q54, Q56 MTA Bus: Q6, Q8, Q9, Q25, Q34, Q40, Q41, Q60, Q65 NICE Bus: n4 AirTrain JFK: Jamaica Station Route
	Jamaica-Beaver Street		1867	1913
	Cedar Manor		1906	1959
	Locust Manor	14.1 (22.7)	1869		NYCT Bus: Q3 (to JFK Airport), Q85, QM21
	Higbie Avenue		1908	1960
	Laurelton	15.0 (24.1)	1907^[11]		NYCT Bus: Q77, Q85
	Rosedale	15.9 (25.6)	1870^[12]		NYCT Bus: Q5, Q85, X63
Queens/Nassau county line
4	Valley Stream	17.6 (28.3)	1869^[12]		LIRR: Long Beach and West Hempstead Branches NICE Bus: n1, Elmont Flexi
	Gibson	18.5 (29.8)	1928		NICE Bus: n1
	Hewlett	19.4 (31.2)	1869^[12]		NICE Bus: n1, n31, n32 Originally Cedar Grove, then Hewletts
	Woodmere	20.0 (32.2)	1869^[12]		NICE Bus: n31, n32
	Cedarhurst	20.9 (33.6)	1869		NICE Bus: n31, n32
	Lawrence	21.7 (34.9)	1869^[12]		NICE Bus: n31, n32
	Inwood	22.1 (35.6)	1905		NICE Bus: n31, n32 Originally Westville
	Nassau/Queens county line
	Far Rockaway	22.7 (36.5)	1869^[12]		NICE Bus: n31, n32, n33 NYCT Bus: Q22, Q113, QM17 NYC Subway: (at Far Rockaway–Mott Avenue)
The following stations were part of the segment that was abandoned in 1955; many of them were reopened as subway stations on the IND Rockaway Line in 1956.
	Wavecrest		1928	1955	NYC Subway: (at Beach 25th Street)
	South Side Pavilion			1955
	Edgemere		1895	1955	NYC Subway: (at Beach 36th Street)
	Frank Avenue		1922	1955	NYC Subway: (at Beach 44th Street)
	Straiton Avenue		1892	1955	NYC Subway: (at Beach 60th Street) Originally Arverne–Straiton Avenue
	Gaston Avenue		1888	1955	NYC Subway: (at Beach 67th Street) Originally Arverne, then Arverne–Gaston Avenue
	Eldert's Grove		1872	1887	Replaced by NYW&R-built Hammels (1880)
	Holland's		1880	1955	NYC Subway: (at Beach 90th Street)
	Sea Side House		1880	1955	NYC Subway: (at Beach 105th Street) Originally Seaside
	Neptune House		1882	1955	NYC Subway: (at Rockaway Park–Beach 116th Street) Originally Rockaway Beach, then Rockaway Park
	Atlantic Park			1955

References

Vincent F. Seyfried, The Long Island Rail Road: A Comprehensive History, Part One: South Side R.R. of L.I., © 1961

^ MTA LIRR - LIRR Map

^ LIRR Far Rockaway Branch Timetable

^ "The Long Island Rail Road: A Comprehensive History Volume #5(New York, Woodhaven & Rockaway Railroad; New York & Rockaway Beach railway; New York & Long Beach Railroad; New York & Rockaway railroad; Brooklyn rapid transit operation to Rockaway; Over L.I.R.R.)", by Vincent F. Seyfried

^ ^a^b Ron Ziel and George H. Foster, Steel Rails to the Sunrise, ©1965

^ LIRR Station History Archived January 6, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.

^ The Long Island Railroad Twenty-Seventh Annual Report For The Year Ending December 31st, 1908. Long Island Railroad Company. 1909..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}

^ "Fifty Years of Subway Service to the Rockaways". New York Division Bulletin. New York Division, Electric Railroaders' Association. 49 (6). June 2006. Retrieved August 31, 2016 – via Issuu.

^ Freeman, Ira Henry (June 28, 1956). "Rockaway Trains to Operate Today" (PDF). nytimes.com. The New York Times. Retrieved June 29, 2015.

^ "New Subway Unit Ready: Far Rockaway IND Terminal Will Be Opened Today" (PDF). nytimes.com. The New York Times. January 16, 1958. Retrieved June 29, 2015.

^ Station pages linked from LIRR Stations Archived 2014-09-07 at the Wayback Machine.

^ Long Island Railroad Station History (TrainsAreFun.com) Archived January 6, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.

^ ^a^b^c^d^e^f Vincent F. Seyfried, The Long Island Rail Road: A Comprehensive History, Part One: South Side R.R. of L.I., © 1961

External links

Route map:

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MTA Long Island Rail Road

Far Rockaway Branch Stations (Unofficial LIRR History Website)

NYCSubway.org Far Rockaway Line

Far Rockaway Line; December 11, 1905 (Arrt's Arrchives)

Far Rockaway Branch (The LIRR Today)

[1] MTA LIRR - LIRR Map

[2] LIRR Far Rockaway Branch Timetable

[3] "The Long Island Rail Road: A Comprehensive History Volume #5(New York, Woodhaven & Rockaway Railroad; New York & Rockaway Beach railway; New York & Long Beach Railroad; New York & Rockaway railroad; Brooklyn rapid transit operation to Rockaway; Over L.I.R.R.)", by Vincent F. Seyfried

[steel-4] Ron Ziel and George H. Foster, Steel Rails to the Sunrise, ©1965

[5] LIRR Station History Archived January 6, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.

[6] The Long Island Railroad Twenty-Seventh Annual Report For The Year Ending December 31st, 1908. Long Island Railroad Company. 1909..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}

[:0-7] "Fifty Years of Subway Service to the Rockaways". New York Division Bulletin. New York Division, Electric Railroaders' Association. 49 (6). June 2006. Retrieved August 31, 2016 – via Issuu.

[NYTimes-INDRkwyOpen-1956-8] Freeman, Ira Henry (June 28, 1956). "Rockaway Trains to Operate Today" (PDF). nytimes.com. The New York Times. Retrieved June 29, 2015.

[NYTImes-FarRkwyIND-Open-1958-9] "New Subway Unit Ready: Far Rockaway IND Terminal Will Be Opened Today" (PDF). nytimes.com. The New York Times. January 16, 1958. Retrieved June 29, 2015.

[10] Station pages linked from LIRR Stations Archived 2014-09-07 at the Wayback Machine.

[11] Long Island Railroad Station History (TrainsAreFun.com) Archived January 6, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.

[Seyfried-12] Vincent F. Seyfried, The Long Island Rail Road: A Comprehensive History, Part One: South Side R.R. of L.I., © 1961

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