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Re: Update: with Richmond Hill (Re: Abandoned LIRR stations) |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Mon Aug 13 20:15:48 2007, in response to Re: Update: with Richmond Hill (Re: Abandoned LIRR stations), posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Tue Aug 7 11:13:06 2007. That embankment was built when they grade eliminated the area around Richmond Hill. Of course originally, Richmond Hill was called Clarenceville.Here's a photo from the 1910's. I believe it was grade eliminated in the early 1920's. Richmond Hill always had the most substantial station on the line. Haberman and Penny Bridge never had anything more than a simple station shed. Fresh Pond, Maspeth, and Glendale had simple shed-like station houses, at least small buildings. Richmond Hill had a "real station", the one below: 
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