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The Rockville Centre station is a station along the Babylon Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. It is officially at North Village Avenue and Front Street north of Sunrise Highway in Rockville Centre, New York, but the station property spreads west to North Center Avenue and east to North Park Avenue. Parking is available throughout the Village ...
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).
On February 17, 1950, two Long Island Rail Road trains collided on the Montauk Branch just west of Rockville Centre station in Rockville Centre, New York, killing 32 and injuring several dozen more. At the time, it was the deadliest collision in the railroad's history until the Kew Gardens train crash later that year.
Operated by Rockville Centre Bus Corporation, a subsidiary of Bee Line, until 1973 MSBA takeover. On April 8, 2012, midday and Saturday service was reduced from operating every 15 minutes to running every 20 minutes. [39] On May 2, 2021, bus service was rerouted to Merrick Road in Rockville Centre, bypassing the LIRR station. [40]
Long Island Rail Road: Long Beach Branch Nassau Inter-County Express: n4, n25, n31, n31x, n32 Originally named Pearsall's Corners, then Pearsall's 7 Rockville Centre: Rockville Centre: 19.3 (31.1) 1867 Nassau Inter-County Express: n15, n16, n31x, Mercy Medical Shuttle Baldwin: Baldwin: 21.3 (34.3) 1867 Nassau Inter-County Express: n35
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. [90]
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Although the station is located within New York City, it was not initially part of LIRR's CityTicket program—which provides discounted tickets for LIRR and Metro-North Railroad trips entirely within the city—as the line passes through Nassau County. [5] Residents and politicians had asked the MTA to include the station in the program.