Rego Park | |||||||||||
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&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Rego_Pk_LIRR_site_jeh.JPG) Site of former Rego Park station | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | 63rd Drive Rego Park, Queens, New York | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°43′33″N 73°51′42″W / 40.72583°N 73.86167°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Long Island Rail Road | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Main Line and Rockaway Beach Branch | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 6 (when the station was open) 4 (currently) | ||||||||||
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| Station code | None | ||||||||||
| Fare zone | 1 | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | May 23, 1928[1] | ||||||||||
| Closed | June 8, 1962 | ||||||||||
| Rebuilt | N/A; station abandoned | ||||||||||
| Electrified | 1905 | ||||||||||
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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.