Bellport station explained

Bellport station should not be confused with Bellmore station.

Bellport
Style:Long Island Rail Road
Style2:left aligned version
Coordinates:40.7737°N -72.9438°W
Other: Suffolk County Transit: 66, 77
Tracks:2
Parking:Yes
Passengers:78[1]
Pass Year:2012 - 2014
Opened:1882
Rebuilt:1964, 1998
Accessible:yes
Zone:12
Other Services Header:Former services
Other Services Collapsible:yes
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Custom:
Shape:none
Line:none
Marker:rail
Zoom:14

Bellport is a station along the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, at Bellport Station Road and Montauk Highway in North Bellport, New York.

History

The station was originally built in the summer of 1882 by the Brooklyn and Montauk Railroad, an LIRR subsidiary designed to expand the former South Side Railroad of Long Island toward the east end. When Hagerman station was closed by the LIRR in 1929, the railroad advised travelers to use this station as a substitute. Twenty-nine years later, on October 6, 1958 the Brookhaven station was closed, sending commuters of that station here as well. Bellport's station house was closed in January 1959 and razed in May 1964, replaced with a shelter-shed. The LIRR was planning to close this station on March 16, 1998 along with ten other stations due to low ridership,[2] [3] but decided to keep it open due to community opposition.[4] A depot with a high-level platform was built between 1998 and 1999, as many stations on the LIRR were getting at the time.

Station layout

The station has one high-level platform on the south side of the two tracks, long enough for one and a half cars to receive and discharge passengers. The north track, not next to the platform, is a siding. Unlike other stations, this station has neither a ticket vending machine nor a ticket office.

Track 1← limited service toward or
limited service toward or
Side platform, doors will open on the left or right

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, 199. 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 ... Bellport.
  2. News: Sengupta . Somini . End of the Line for L.I.R.R.'s 10 Loneliest Stops . The New York Times . March 15, 1998 . August 7, 2009.
  3. Web site: LONG ISLAND STATION HISTORY. trainsarefun.com. 2015-02-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20141006121650/http://www.trainsarefun.com/lirrphotos/lirrstationshistory.htm. 2014-10-06. dead.
  4. News: LIRR Scaling Back / 10 little-used stations to close in March . Newsday . 1998-02-24 . Mitchell . Freedman . . 2023-06-21-->.