THE BROOKLYN & JAMAICA RAIL ROAD THE LONG ISLAND RAIL ROAD and ATLANTIC AVENUE
PAGE REVISED MARCH 20, 2009
1852 TIME TABLE
ALTHOUGH NOT IDENTIFIED AS AN EMPLOYE TIME TABLE THIS HAS THE CHARACTERISTICS OF ONE - MEETING AND PASSING PLACES ARE SHOWN AND THERE ARE SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS.
TWO STATIONS NOT LISTED ON EARLIER OR LATER TIMETABLES ARE SHOWN:
NEW BROOKLYN AND WAMPMISSICK
NEW BROOKLYN WAS JUST WEST OF EAST NEW YORK.
A MARCH 04, 1853 ARTICLE IN THE BROOKLYN EAGLE STATES, "ALTHOUGH SCARCELY A YEAR OLD, NEW BROOKLYN HAS BECOME A CONSIDERABLE VILLAGE, EXTENDING ALONG ATLANTIC AND FULTON AVENUES AND THE BROOKLYN AND JAMAICA PLANK ROAD - A MILE OR MORE."
JOHNSON'S 1855 Map of Brooklyn Thanks to .bklyn-genealogy-info.com
1880 FROM WARD MAPS .COM
AN 1860 MAP
WAMPMISSICK IS A PASSENGER STATION AND MEETING AND PASSING PLACE TWO MILES WEST OF MANOR.
THIS 1855 COLTON MAP SHOWS WAMPMISSICK AND ANOTHER PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN STATION " HERMANNVILLE" JUST EAST OF LAKELAND.
AN INTERNET SEARCH REVEALS THAT WAMPMISSICK IS THE INDIAN WORD FOR BLUEBERRY AND THAT THERE IS A WAMPMISSICK TRAIL NEAR THE PINE BARRENS TRAIL INFORMATION CENTER IN MANORVILLE.
"Wampmissick is a Native American name for extensive swamps two miles west of Manorville."
I hope this helps.
Lorraine Leary
LI Greenbelt Trail Conference
THANKS LORRAINE!
IN THE EARLY 1940'S CLARENCE ASHTON WOOD WROTE,
AS LATE AS 1924 WAMPMISSIC (NO "K") SIDING WAS LISTED IN THE C. R. 4. AND IT WAS
SHOWN ON THE 1916 VALUATION PLANS.
NOTICE THE TIMES AT BEDFORD OF THE EASTBOUND FARMINGDALE TRAIN AND THE WESTBOUND FREIGHT TRAIN AND WESTBOUND MAIL TRAIN - ALL 4:08 P. M. AND THE WESTBOUNDS BOTH ARRIVED AT BROOKLYN AT THE SAME TIME - 4:30 P. M. AFTER THE EASTBOUND PASSED, THE MAIL TRAIN PASSED THE FREIGHT AND APPARENTLY THEY RAN SIDE BY SIDE TO SOUTH FERRY. PERHAPS ONE MAN ON HORSEBACK WOULD PRECEDE BOTH TRAINS. IF THE TRAINS COUPLED AND RAN AS ONE THERE WOULD BE NO NEED TO AWAIT THE EASTBOUND.
THIS REPRODUCTION OF THE DECEMBER 1, 1852 TIME TABLE SHOWS AN ALTERATION OF THE SCHEDULE AND A PASSING SIDING BETWEEN SUFFOLK STATION AND LAKELAND AT NICHOLS ROAD.
THIS 1857 MAP SHOWS A "WATER STATION" PROBABLY AT THE SAME LOCATION AS NICHOLS ROAD
A STUDY OF THE SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS REVEALS THAT THE CITY OF BROOKLYN HAD SEVERELY RESTRICTED THE SPEED OF TRAINS BY REQUIRING THAT TWENTY - TWO MINUTES BE
TAKEN RUNNING THE TWO AND ONE HALF MILES BETWEEN SOUTH FERRY AND BEDFORD AND THAT A MAN WITH A RED FLAG, ON HORSEBACK, PRECEDE THE TRAIN BETWEEN THE EAST GATE OF THE TUNNEL AND FLATBUSH ROAD.
THESE THREE ARTISTS' RENDITIONS ALL SHOW THE TRAINS RUNNING ON THE LEFT SIDE WHICH WAS/IS THE PRACTICE IN ENGLAND. VERY POSSIBLY THE LONG ISLAND RAIL ROAD ADOPTED THIS PRACTICE IN 1836.
THIS IS THE END OF ATLANTIC STREET AT FLATBUSH AVENUE, 1842 - 1845.