Landia station

Landia station is a closed railroad station on the Long Island Rail Road's Port Jefferson Branch in the Locust Grove section of Syosset, in Nassau County, New York.

Landia
General information
Location	South side of Robbins Lane Syosset, New York
Coordinates	40°47′51.3″N 73°30′54.1″W
Owned by	Long Island Rail Road
Platforms	1
Tracks	2
History
Opened	1952
Closed	1973
Services
Preceding station Long Island Rail Road Following station Former services Hicksville toward Penn Station, Grand Central or Long Island City Port Jefferson Branch Syosset toward Huntington or Port Jefferson

History

The station was opened on December 15, 1952 for the Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corporation, which had recently moved from Queens to Syosset. Its purpose was to provide transportation to work for Fairchild employees who still lived in Queens and did not own automobiles.^[1]

Service to the station was halted on June 26, 1972, as the station did not have high-level platforms to accommodate the LIRR's new M1 railcars, which did not have stairs to allow for passengers to board from grade-level.^[2] In 1970, ridership at the station consisted of two daily passengers. On October 3, 1973, the station closed permanently.^[3][4][1]

Future

Reopening the station has been proposed as a solution to the gap problem at Syosset, as Landia is on a straight portion of track instead of the curved section at Syosset.^[5]

References

1. Keller, David D. Morrison, Foreword by David (2013). Long Island Rail Road: Port Jefferson Branch. Arcadia Publishing. p. 31. ISBN 9781467120135.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
2. Perlmutter, Emanuel (June 18, 1972). "L.I.R.R. Improving Service on All Lines Under a New Timetable". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 4, 2018.
3. Stadler, Derek (September 21, 2014). "Oyster Bay, Mill Neck, and Syosset: The History of Long Island Rail Road Service to Northeastern Nassau County". Derek Stadler. Retrieved May 4, 2018.
4. Keller, David; Lynch, Steven (2005). Revisiting the Long Island Rail Road: 1925-1975. Arcadia Publishing. p. 19. ISBN 9780738538297.
5. Nash, Denise (November 17, 2006). "Jacobs Still Pressuring LIRR to Bridge the Gap in Syosset". Syosset-Jericho Tribune. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved March 10, 2007.

External links

• 1971 Fan Trip image (TrainsAreFun.com)