Rego Park (LIRR station)

Rego Park

Site of former Rego Park station

Location

At 63rd Drive
Rego Park, Queens

Coordinates

40°43′33″N 73°51′42″W / 40.72583°N 73.86167°WCoordinates: 40°43′33″N 73°51′42″W / 40.72583°N 73.86167°W

Owned by

MTA

Line(s)

Main Line
(City Terminal Zone)

Rockaway Beach Branch

Platforms

2 side platforms

Tracks

6 (when the station was open)
4 (currently)

Other information

Station code

None

Fare zone

History

Opened

May 1928

Closed

June 8, 1962

Rebuilt

N/A; station abandoned

Electrified

1905

Services

None

Preceding station		LIRR	Following station
Grand Street station	Main Line (current and former locations)		Forest Hills station
Preceding station		LIRR	Following station
Grand Street Terminus		Rockaway Beach Branch	Parkside toward Rockaway Park

Rego Park is a former Long Island Rail Road station. It was made of wood, unlike most other stations that were concrete. The station opened in May 1928 with two side platforms outside the two Rockaway Beach Branch tracks that bracketed the four-track Main Line, so only Rockaway trains stopped there. After the Rockaway Trestle fire in 1950, the line was closed station by station. The station closed on June 8, 1962, one day before the Rockaway Beach Branch was abandoned. Nothing remains at the site today.

Matawok stations

Two former stations near Whitepot Junction were named Matawok, and were located on both the Main Line and Rockaway Beach Branch. Both stations were named for the Matawok Land Company, which built the neighborhood surrounding the junction known at the time as "Forest Hills West."

Matawok Rockaway Beach Line station

The first station to be given the name Matawok, near the junction at Rego Park was located along the Rockaway Beach Branch at Fleet Street on the northeast corner of a bridge over the street. It was opened between 1910 and 1913, although LIRR records of the station show its existence dating back to 1908 and into 1915. Some maps show the station existing as recently as 1922.^[1]

Matawok Main Line station

The other Matawok Station was located along the main line east of Whitepot Junction at 66th Avenue. It was built on September 10, 1922 and had two platforms along four tracks, and a pedestrian bridge not only over the main line, but also over the Rockaway Beach Branch leading from 64th Road east of Alderton Street. The station closed on May 21, 1925, but the remnants of the station remained for decades.^[2]

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