Woodhaven is a former railroad and trolley station on the

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of the

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. Though it was also on one of the same lines as

Woodhaven Junction (LIRR station) Woodhaven Junction was a station complex on the Atlantic Branch and Rockaway Beach Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, located at Atlantic Avenue (New York City), Atlantic Avenue between 98th and 100th Streets in Woodhaven, Queens, Woodhaven, ...

the two stations were distinguished from one another. Woodhaven was located on Atlantic Avenue, east of 87th Street.

History

Woodhaven station was a replacement for another station further to the east known as "Trotting Course Lane," which itself originally opened as Connecticut Avenue Station on July 31, 1837, by the

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at 94th Street. The name was changed to "Trotting Course Station," and then "Trotting Course Lane Station" for service to horse racing fans at the 1825-built Centerville Race Course. Trotting Course Lane station closed in 1842. Very little evidence of the existence of the street near the tracks, let alone the station can be found today. Six years later, a new station would be built west of Trotting Course Lane. Originally known as Woodville station, it was built in 1848. Sometime in or around 1859 the station was renamed Woodhaven, although the community itself was given that name on August 1, 1853, in order to distinguish itself from another community with the same name in the

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. The station was re-opened as an

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station on April 28, 1905 with the electrification from Flatbush Avenue. In 1911 the platforms were widened. With the sinking of the Atlantic Branch into a tunnel, the station closed on November 1, 1939.LIRR Notice for November 1, 1939
/ref> The name would be revived again for Woodhaven Junction when the

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was abandoned on June 9, 1962, until that station too was abandoned in 1976.

References

External links

Woodhaven Station image; July 26, 1905 (Arrt's Arrchives)
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Former Long Island Rail Road stations in New York City Railway stations in Queens, New York Railway stations in the United States opened in 1848 Woodhaven, Queens Railway stations in the United States closed in 1939 {{QueensNY-railstation-stub