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[edit] The name of this article

I have consulted dozens of maps, schedules, and books, some going back decades, and can find absolutely no reference to the line of the LIRR that runs in Atlantic Avenue being called the "Atlantic Branch". Please provide a source. Jd2718 01:10, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[1][2] --NE2 01:22, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stations that existed after the improvement and electrification

  • Flatbush Avenue (underground terminal)
  • Nostrand Avenue (elevated side platforms)
  • East New York (surface side platforms)
  • Warwick Street (elevated island), closed 1939
  • Chestnut Street Junction (surface; not a station)
  • Autumn Avenue, earlier Railroad Avenue (surface side platforms), closed 1939
  • Union Course (surface side platforms), closed 1939
  • Woodhaven (surface side platforms), closed 1939
  • Woodhaven Junction (surface side platforms), closed 1977
  • Clarenceville (surface side platforms), closed 1939
  • Morris Park (surface side platforms), closed 1939
  • Dunton (surface side platforms), closed 1939
  • Jamaica

--NE2 05:32, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Initial rapid transit stops (1877)

"Steam Motors", Brooklyn Daily Eagle, August 12, 1877, p. 4. 

--NE2 10:43, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Also see "To Abandon Crossings", Brooklyn Daily Eagle, May 9, 1899, p. 7.  and "Application Granted", Brooklyn Daily Eagle, July 6, 1899, p. 6. : [3][4]. --NE2 12:05, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Also "Rapid Transit", Brooklyn Daily Eagle, August 13, 1877, p. 4. : [5][6] - also states that through trains made no stops between Flatbush and East New York except Bedford, at least after rapid transits began. --NE2 01:13, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

An 1890 map (NYPL 1519748) shows the following stations:

  • Flatbush Avenue
  • Vanderbilt Avenue
  • Grand Avenue
  • Franklin Avenue
  • Nostrand Avenue
  • Brooklyn Avenue
  • Kingston Avenue
  • Troy Avenue
  • Utica Avenue
  • Ralph Avenue
  • Saratoga Avenue
  • Rockaway Avenue
  • Manhattan Beach Railroad Crossing
  • Pennsylvania Avenue
  • Van Siclen Avenue (between Miller and Van Siclen)
  • Linwood Street (between Elton and Linwood)

--NE2 22:53, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

The following are on an 1897 map:

--NE2 01:49, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 1877 through stations

This information is from [7], except west of East New York.

[edit] 1898 temporary discontinuances

The starred stations were discontinued in 1898 with the opening of the Chestnut Street Incline.[1]

--NE2 23:56, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mentions of stations

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q "The Application Approved", Brooklyn Daily Eagle, October 31, 1898, p. 1. 
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Steam Motors", Brooklyn Daily Eagle, August 12, 1877, p. 4. 
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "Want Stations Restored", Brooklyn Daily Eagle, October 20, 1898, p. 16. 
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p "Application Granted", Brooklyn Daily Eagle, July 6, 1899, p. 6. 
  5. ^ "Unidentified", Brooklyn Daily Eagle, July 23, 1880, p. 4. 
  6. ^ "A Coach Driver's Suit", Brooklyn Daily Eagle, December 9, 1882, p. 4. 
  7. ^ "Run Over and Killed", Brooklyn Daily Eagle, September 13, 1888, p. 6. 
  8. ^ a b "Investigated", Brooklyn Daily Eagle, April 19, 1878, p. 4. 
  9. ^ a b c "A Brave Boy", Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 19, 1879, p. 4. 
  10. ^ "A Narrow Escape", Brooklyn Daily Eagle, December 22, 1879, p. 3. 
  11. ^ "Conciliation", Brooklyn Daily Eagle, August 25, 1883, p. 4. 
  12. ^ a b "Must Stop at City Line", Brooklyn Daily Eagle, January 30, 1899, p. 3. : this article also deals with changes made when the incline was added - also "Rapid Transit's Patrons Protest", Brooklyn Daily Eagle, October 26, 1898, p. 2. 
  13. ^ "L. I. R. R. Rapid Transit", Brooklyn Daily Eagle, October 6, 1898, p. 3. 
  14. ^ "Long Island Making Progress", Brooklyn Daily Eagle, April 26, 1885, p. 9. 
  15. ^ "United", Brooklyn Daily Eagle, August 7, 1878, p. 4. 
  16. ^ "The Crash", Brooklyn Daily Eagle, August 2, 1880, p. 2. 

[edit] Another table

1877[1] 1878[8] 1890[9] 1897[10][11] 1898[2] 1898[3] 1899[4] 1899[12][13]
Flatbush Avenue x x x x n x
Vanderbilt Avenue x x x x x
Washington Avenue x x
Grand Avenue x x x x?
Bedford x x x x x n x x
Nostrand Avenue x x x x x n
New York Avenue
Brooklyn Avenue x x x x x
Kingston Avenue x x
Albany Avenue x x
Troy Avenue x x x x n
Schenectady Avenue x x
Utica Avenue x x x x n
Rochester Avenue x x
Ralph Avenue x x x x x
Saratoga Avenue x x
Hopkinson Avenue x
Rockaway Avenue x x x x
Stone Avenue x
Manhattan Beach Railroad Crossing ? x x x n x
Howard House ? x x x x n x x/n
Pennsylvania Avenue x x
Wyckoff Avenue x
Bradford Avenue /x
Van Siclen Avenue x x x x
Warwick Street
Linwood Street x x x x x
Norwood Avenue x x x x
Cypress Avenue x
Cypress Hills
Railroad Avenue
Adamsville
City Line x x
Unionville
Union Course
Woodhaven x x x
Trotting Course Lane
Woodhaven Junction x x x
Chester Park x
Clarenceville x x x
Lefferts Avenue
Morris Park x x x
Morris Grove
Berlin
Berlin Junction
Dunton x x x
Jamaica x x x
New York Avenue x x x
Canal Street x x x/
Rockaway Junction x x x

"Poor Train Service to Manhattan Beach", Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 25, 1900, p. 1.  talks about Manhattan Beach trains skipping Nostrand Avenue, Troy Avenue, and Utica Avenue. In "Manhattan Beach", Brooklyn Daily Eagle, July 6, 1899, p. 4.  they still stopped there. --NE2 10:03, 14 February 2007 (UTC)