Landia | ||||||||||||||||
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| General information | ||||||||||||||||
| Location | South side of Robbins Lane Syosset, New York | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°47′51.3″N73°30′54.1″W / 40.797583°N 73.515028°W /40.797583; -73.515028 | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Long Island Rail Road | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||||
| Opened | May 15, 1952; 73 years ago (1952-05-15) | |||||||||||||||
| Closed | October 3, 1973; 52 years ago (1973-10-03) | |||||||||||||||
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Landia is a former station on theLong Island Rail Road'sPort Jefferson Branch, located on Robbins Lane in theLocust Grove section ofSyosset, withinNassau County,Long Island,New York, United States.
The station was opened on December 15, 1952 for theFairchild Camera & Instrument Corporation, which had recently moved fromQueens to Syosset. Its purpose was to provide transportation to work for Fairchild employees who still lived in Queens and did not own automobiles.[1]
Service to Landia was halted on June 26, 1972, as the station did not have high-level platforms to accommodate the LIRR's newM1 railcars, which did not have stairs to allow for passengers to board from grade-level.[2] In 1970, ridership at the station consisted of two daily passengers. On October 3, 1973, the station closed permanently, with officials concluding that upgrading the station to include high-level platforms for the new M1s was financially impractical, given the low ridership.[3][4][1]
Reopening the Landia station has been proposed as a solution to the gap problem at theSyosset station slightly to the northeast, as Landia is located along a straight portion of track instead of the curved section at Syosset.[5]
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