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Posted by Andy on Mon May 5 22:11:45 2025, in response to Today I Learned, LIRR Edition, posted by Mitch45 on Mon May 5 16:17:03 2025. I believe it was around 1958 when the old Rockaway Beach Branch LIRR became a single track operation. The single track began just east of the White Pot Junction under jump (where the RBB diverged from the LIRR Main Line about a mile west of Forest Hills) and was controlled by a spring switch. All trains used the normal Manhattan-bound track, creating single-track stations at Parkside, Brooklyn Manor, Woodhaven, and Ozone Park. There were two trains in each direction till about 1960, and then it was one in each direction till the final closure on June 8, 1962. In the morning peak, an eastbound equipment train came from Penn Station to represent a westbound train at Ozone Park. In the evening peak, the eastbound revenue train from Penn to Ozone Park returned to Penn as an equipment move.I have an operating timetable from 1961 that shows a westbound revenue train leaving Ozone Park at 7:49 AM (#2213); the PM train left Penn at 5:37 PM (#2234). Immediately afterward, Green Bus Lines began an express bus route between Ozone Park and Penn Station making the old LIRR station stops. It could be seen on 33rd Street outside of Penn in the PM rush , departing at 5:30 PM every weekday evening. |
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