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Woodside (LIRR)

Woodside
View over Woodside LIRR Station.JPG
The station looking SE from the IRT Flushing Line platforms overhead
Location 61st Street & Roosevelt Avenue
Woodside, New York
Coordinates 40°44′46″N 73°54′12″W / 40.746072°N 73.903201°W / 40.746072; -73.903201Coordinates: 40°44′46″N 73°54′12″W / 40.746072°N 73.903201°W / 40.746072; -73.903201
Owned by Long Island Rail Road
Line(s)
Platforms 2 side platforms
1 island platform
Tracks 6
Connections New York City Subway
"7" train "7" express train at 61st Street – Woodside
Local Transit NYCT Bus: Q32
Local Transit MTA Bus: Q18, Q53, Airport transportation Q70 SBS to LGA
Construction
Disabled access Yes
Other information
Fare zone 1
History
Opened November 15, 1869 (F&NS)
Closed 1914
Rebuilt 1915, 1999
Electrified June 16, 1910
750 V (DC) third rail
Traffic
Passengers (2006) 5,728
Services
Preceding station   MTA NYC logo.svg LIRR   Following station
Terminus
Main Line
(City Terminal Zone)
toward Long Island
Port Washington Branch
(Game days and USTA matches only)
Rush-hour express
Belmont Park Branch
toward Belmont Park

Woodside is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Main Line in the Woodside neighborhood of Queens. It is the first station passed by eastward trains from Penn Station, and it is the only Queens station that serves both the Port Washington Branch and the other LIRR branches that begin east of Jamaica station (with the exception of the Montauk Branch). East of Woodside the two-track Port Washington Branch turns east from the Main Line, while the four-track Main Line continues south-easterly 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 <7> trains) station is above Woodside station, on a high viaduct above Roosevelt Avenue. The station is ADA wheelchair accessible by means of elevators and ramps.


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