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Coordinates: 40°45'22?N 73°38'22?W? / ?40.75614, -73.639426
East Williston is the first station along the Oyster Bay Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. It is located at Hillside Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue, in East Williston, New York. It is also the terminus of electrification for the Oyster Bay branch. Since the rest of the branch is diesel, service is mostly provided by diesel locomotives. However, one electric train a day terminates here, for the sole purpose of third rail polishing.
East Williston's station house was built sometime in 1880. and closed on December 10, 1996. Since then, it has operated as little more than a pair of sheltered high-level platforms with ticket vending machines and handicapped access ramps. Efforts to preserve the original station house failed when it was found to be too structurally unstable, and it was razed on December 11, 2004. Some in the community, have been considering building a whole new version of the original station house. The LIRR still uses an image of the former station house for their official website.
- N22A: Jamaica-Hicksville.
- N27: Hempstead-Glen Cove.
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