Bay Shore station explained

Bay Shore
Style:Long Island Rail Road
Style2:left aligned version
Address:Railroad Plaza & Park Avenue
Bay Shore, New York
Coordinates:40.7251°N -73.2531°W
Other: Suffolk County Transit: 7
Platform:2 side platforms
Tracks:2
Parking:Yes (free)
Passengers:1,431[1]
Pass Year:2012 - 2014
Pass Rank:63 of 125
Opened:May 20, 1868 (SSRRLI)
Rebuilt:1882, 1912
Accessible:yes
Owned:Long Island Rail Road
Zone:10
Former:Pentaquit (May–July 1868)[2]
Other Services Header:Former services
Other Services Collapsible:yes
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Custom:
Shape:none
Line:none
Marker:rail
Zoom:14

Bay Shore is a major railroad station on the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR), on Park Avenue and Oak Street north of Suffolk CR 50 (Union Boulevard) and west of Fourth Avenue, in Bay Shore, New York. Ferries to Fire Island board from a port south of the station.[3]

History

Bay Shore station was built by the South Side Railroad of Long Island (SSRRLI) on May 20, 1868 as Penataquit station only to be renamed Bay Shore station in July 1868. It was replaced in 1882 and replaced again on July 17, 1912, in the style typical of stations such as Riverhead, Manhasset, Northport, and Mineola. The station also had a freight yard nearby.[4]

High-level platforms were added in 1984. The entrance to the station once had decorative pillars on the sides,[5] and a railroad hotel once existed behind the station plaza.[6] It is one of the few stations on the LIRR with two station buildings. The larger building was for the westbound platform and the smaller one was for the eastbound platform. An underground pedestrian tunnel once connected the two station houses until a pedestrian bridge was built in 2009. Both station houses still stand, but the smaller one previously used for the eastbound platform was taken over by the MTA. The new overpass brought a renovation project, replacing platform lighting and adding new platform waiting shelters.

Station layout

The station has two high-level side platforms each 12 cars long. There are two large parking lots on each side of the tracks.

Platform A, side platform
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Track 2 toward,, or
Platform B, side platform

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2012-2014 LIRR Origin and Destination Report : Volume I: Travel Behavior Among All LIRR Passengers. 23 August 2016. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20190717085537/http://web.mta.info/mta/planning/data/2012_LIRR_OD_Report_Volume_I_FINAL%2008232016.pdf. 17 July 2019. 29 March 2020. PDF pp. 15, 198. Data collection took place after the pretest determinations, starting in September 2012 and concluding in May 2014. .... 2012-2014 LIRR O[rigin and ]D[estination] COUNTS: WEEKDAY East/West Total By Station in Numerical Order ... Bay Shore.
  2. [Vincent F. Seyfried]
  3. Web site: Life's a Beach on Long Island; The MTA LIRR is the "Greenest Way" to a Summer in Blue Ocean and White Sand Luxury. MTA. 20 March 2013.
  4. http://www.trainsarefun.com/lirr/yards/bshorefreightyard78.jpg Bay Shore Freight Yard; 1978 (TrainsAreFun)
  5. Book: Morrison, David D. . Pakaluk . Valerie . Long Island Rail Road Stations . Images of Rail . 2003 . Arcadia Publishing . Chicago . 92 . 0-7385-1180-3 . 2011-11-25.
  6. http://trainsarefun.com/lirr/lirrtracksidebusiness/lirrtracksidebusiness.htm LIRR Trackside Business Photos