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Mineola is a train station on the Main Line of the Long Island Rail Road in Mineola, New York. All trains for the Port Jefferson Branch, Ronkonkoma Branch, and Oyster Bay Branch services run through this station, and also a few on the Montauk Branch. It is located at Front Street and Mineola Boulevard. The station is wheelchair accessible and has a crossover and a grade crossing for pedestrians at the east end. There are two side platforms, though the south platform is configured to accommodate an island platform if a third track on the Main Line is constructed. A smaller enclosed second shelter exists on the opposite side of the main station house.
History
Mineola Station was originally built on the south side of the tracks in 1837 as "Branch Station," then later renamed "Hempstead Branch Station" when the Long Island Railroad was expanded to Hicksville. The station was renovated in June, 1872, but a second depot was built between May & June 1883. This station was razed in 1923 and the third one was relocated to the north side of the tracks on September 22, 1923. The enclosed shelter was built at the old station house's location. A reconstruction project took place in 2001.
With its connection to the Oyster Bay Branch, Mineola station has always been a major railroad junction, but even moreso in the 19th, and much of the 20th Century. On the south side of the station a wye existed between the power sub-station for a line that connected the West Hempstead Branch with the Oyster Bay Branch. Sometimes referred to as the Garden City Branch, the east branch of this wye began at Third Street then crossed Main Street, then the main line itself before connecting with the Oyster Bay Branch until it was eliminated in 1928. The rest of the line was eliminated in 1966.
Mineola Intermodal Center
MTA Long Island Bus operates bus service to the Mineola Intermodal Center on the south side of the station. Prior to the opening of the intermodal center on October 16, 2006, bus stops were located at 3rd Street, a block away from the station. Seven MTA Long Island Bus routes stop there, as well as local Taxicab services.
MTA Long Island Bus Connections
- N22: Hicksville-Jamaica.
- N23: Mineola-Manorhaven.
- N24: Roosevelt Field/Mitchel Field/East Meadow-Jamaica.
- N40: Freeport-Mineola.
- N41: Freeport-Mineola.
- N78: Mineola-Plainview.
- N79: Mineola-Walt Whitman Mall.
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