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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.

  Go   to ---->   HERMANNVILLE



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.

COMPARE THAT WITH THE RUN TEN YEARS EARLIER -
SEVENTEEN MINUTES CLINTON STREET TO JAMAICA
Go to ---->   FAST TRAIN TO SUFFOLK STATION IN 1842






















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.


EAST OF WOODHAVEN



Return to ---->   B. & J. R. R. - L. I. R. R.   Part   2


Go to ---->   B. & J. R. R. - L. I. R. R.   Part   3


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