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CENTRAL RAIL ROAD EXTENSION COMPANY OF LONG ISLAND |
HEMPSTEAD CROSSING STATION
AND
COUNTRY LIFE PRESS
NEW JULY 4, 2002 - Revised JANUARY 6, 2018
HEMPSTEAD CROSSING STATION
AFTER 1893 TRAINS BETWEEN MINEOLA AND VALLEY STREAM AND BETWEEN MINEOLA AND
HEMPSTEAD STOPPED AT HEMPSTEAD CROSSING STATION AT STEWART AVENUE.
FROM AN 1897 EMPLOYE TIME TABLE.
FROM A 1973 LETTER FROM FELIX REIFSCHNEIDER.
1916 BLUEPRINT SHOWS STEWART AVENUE STATION NORTHWEST OF THE CROSSING.
GARDEN CITY VILLAGE HISTORIAN BILL BELLMER SENDS THIS GREAT CIRCA 1922 PHOTO SHOWING
BC NUMBER FOUR LEAVING THE HEMPSTEAD CROSSING STEWART AVENUE STATION - THANKS BILL!
STEWART AVENUE STATION ENDED UP IN THE MEDIAN OF STEWART AVENUE PERHAPS WHEN THE STREET
WAS WIDENED. IN 1926 ELECTRIFICATION WAS COMPLETED BETWEEN VALLEY STREAM AND MINEOLA
AND STEWART AVENUE STATION WAS ABANDONED. HENRY WILHELM SHOWED THE LOCATION IN 1923.
BOB EMERY TRACED THE CHANGES UNTIL ABANDONMENT
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS OF EMPLOYE TIME TABLE NUMBER 60 -
MAY 14, 1911 - SHOW SOME HEMPSTEAD TRAINS STOPPING AT
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY PLATFORM AT FRANKLIN STREET.
TIME TABLE NUMBER 64 - MAY 24, 1912 - SHOWS SOME HEMPSTEAD TRAINS
STOPPING AT HC TOWER. THE SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS INDICATE THAT THEY WILL STOP AT
DOUBLEDAY'S PLATFORM. NEW YORK BAY EXTENSION TRAINS STOPPED AT HC TOWER.
COUNTRY LIFE PRESS
COUNTRY LIFE PRESS IS LISTED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN TIME TABLE NUMBER 69 - MAY 25, 1913.
NEW YORK BAY EXTENSION TRAINS STOPPED THERE AND AT HC TOWER STATION AT STEWART AVENUE.
FROM TIME TABLE NUMBER 88 - OCTOBER 18, 1918.
EMPLOYE TIME TABLE NUMBER 104 - MAY 19, 1926
THE LAST RUN SHEET AND SCHEDULES OF THE BATTERY CARS AND THE LAST USE OF STEWART AVENUE STATION.
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E.T.T. NUMBER 105 - OCTOBER 20, 1926
THROUGH M.U. SERVICE AND THE NEW YORK BAY EXTENSION RENAMED THE WEST HEMPSTEAD BRANCH.
A TYPICAL RUN - TRAIN 958 LEFT FLATBUSH AVE. AT 4:27PM, RAN TO MINEOLA VIA VALLEY STREAM
AND RETURNED AT 5:22PM TO PENN STATION AS NUMBER 959.
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