Winfield Junction
Winfield Junction as seen in 2009
General information
Location50th Avenue and 69th Street
Maspeth, Queens
Coordinates40°44′13″N 73°53′46″W / 40.736973°N 73.895983°W / 40.736973; -73.895983
Original Location
Owned byLong Island Rail Road
Line(s)Main Line
Platforms2 side platform
Tracks2
Other information
Station codeNone
Fare zone3
History
OpenedJune 1854
Closed1929
Former services
Preceding station Long Island
Rail Road		 Following station
Woodside
toward Long Island City or Penn Station
 Main Line Grand Street
toward Greenport
Terminus North Side Division Elmhurst
toward Port Washington

Winfield Junction is a junction between the Main Line and Port Washington Branch of the Long Island Rail Road in the Woodside section of Queens, New York City. Between 1854 and 1929, a station of the same name stood on this site.

History

Winfield Junction station was originally opened in July 1854 by the New York and Flushing Railroad on the southeast corner of 50th Avenue and 69th Street.[1] The junction's location was set the same year, when the NY&F's Main Line (now the Port Washington Branch) was built, crossing the LIRR's Main Line. By 1868 NY&F was consolidated by the Flushing and North Side Railroad, and the section west of Winfield was sold to the South Side Railroad of Long Island in 1869. This segment was abandoned in 1875. After further acquisition by the Flushing, North Shore, and Central Railroad in 1874, and then the Long Island Rail Road in 1876, the station was later moved to the junction in August 1876 where it also served the Main Line. A second station was built at some point, which was razed in 1915, and replaced with a third station the same year. Plans to close the station can be traced as far back as 1910,[2] but the station was closed and then razed in 1929, making Woodside Station the transfer point between Main Line and Port Washington Branch trains.

Winfield station map, 1891. South is at the top. Railroad Avenue was the old New York and Flushing Railroad line.

References

  1. ↑ "LONG ISLAND STATION HISTORY". trainsarefun.com. Archived from the original on 2010-04-08. Retrieved 2009-12-06.
  2. ↑ NEW TUBES BRING THEIR OWN TRAFFIC; Travel to Long Island Increased by 15,000 a Day, Railway Officials Declare (New York Times; Saturday, September 10, 1910)
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