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Rockville Centre is a station along the Babylon Branch of the Long Island Rail Road in Rockville Centre, Nassau County, New York. It is officially located at North Village Avenue and Front Street, north of Sunrise Highway (NY 27) – but the station property spreads west to North Center Avenue and east to North Park Avenue.
Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan is the actual westernmost station of the Long Island Rail Road and its busiest station. The system currently has 126 stations on eleven rail lines called "branches". [ 1 ] [ 4 ] (Not included in this count are two additional stations that serve employees of the LIRR: Hillside Facility and Boland's Landing ).
Rockville Centre, commonly abbreviated as RVC, is an incorporated village located in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, on the South Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. The population was 26,016 at the time of the 2020 census .
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On February 17, 1950, two trains collided head-on after an engineer on train 192 ignored an approach signal and the following red signals at Rockville Centre station, leaving 32 dead and more than 100 injured. At the time, it was the worst rail disaster in LIRR history. [177]
The MTA Board, on June 9, 1978, voted to seek a $605,000 grant from the UMTA to create four new bus transfer centers at the Mineola, Lynbrook, Rockville Centre, and Freeport LIRR stations. The county would contribute $108,000 to the project. Most of the funds would go to hiring 30 new employees, mainly bus operators.
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