The Hillside Facility, also called the Hillside Support Facility or the Hillside Maintenance Complex, is a maintenance facility of the

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(LIRR) in

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. The Hillside facility was built between 1984 and 1991LIRR Official Hillside Facility brochure (Unofficial LIRR History Website)
/ref> on the grounds of a section of Holban Yard, a railroad freight yard. The facility covers east of the former Hillside station and can maintain 60 cars at a time.

Main Line station

The facility includes an employees-only station which is the first stop along the LIRR Main Line east of

Jamaica station Jamaica station is a major train station of the Long Island Rail Road located in Jamaica, Queens, New York City. With weekday ridership exceeding 200,000 passengers, it is the largest transit hub on Long Island, the fourth-busiest rail station ...

. The line is served by select trains on the Hempstead, Ronkonkoma, Oyster Bay, and

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. Like the Boland's Landing station west of Jamaica, this station is for LIRR employees only. There are two

side platform A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platforms ...

s that serve Tracks 3 and 4 of the Main Line.

Holban Yard

Holban Yard is a railroad freight yard for the Long Island Rail Road at

Rockaway Junction Rockaway Junction was a junction and station on the Long Island Rail Road's Main Line and Montauk Branch in Hillside, Queens, New York City, United States. It was located in the vicinity where the Montauk Branch now crosses over the two eastbou ...

near the current site of the Hillside Facility. It was built in 1906 and was named for the two communities of

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and

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which bordered the yard along the

Cedarhurst Cut-Off The Cedarhurst Cut-off was a rail line owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in the U.S. state of New York. The line split from the LIRR's Main Line at Rockaway Junction (near Hollis) and ran south via Springfield Gardens and Cedar ...

at the time of construction. The northernmost segment of the yard extends from the sites of the former Rockaway Junction Station through the grounds of the former Willow Tree Station, which is the present site of the platforms for the Hillside Facility over the 183rd Street bridge, with tracks extending east of the still-operating Hollis Station. It continues to be used to hold work cars, and for work on various other MOW equipment. The yard is also used to store a trio of 1950s vintage Osgood Bradley passenger cars. File:LIRR Hillside Platform and Pedestrian Bridge.JPG, The Hillside Facility as seen from an

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-bound train File:HillsideViewEast.jpg, View east from station overpass over yard tracks; Platforms far left

References

External links

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LIRR station page for HillsideImage from four tracks (Unofficial LIRR history website)Image from Liberty Avenue (Picasaweb)
Long Island Rail Road stations in New York City Railway stations in Queens, New York Rail yards in New York (state) Railway workshops in the United States 1991 establishments in New York City Railway stations in the United States opened in 1991 {{QueensNY-railstation-stub