Bethpage station explained

Bethpage
Style:Long Island Rail Road
Style2:left aligned version
Coordinates:40.743°N -73.4834°W
Distance:27.9miles from [1]
Platform:2 side platforms
Tracks:2
Parking:Yes; Free, and Town of Oyster Bay permits
Bicycle:Yes
Passengers:4,963[2]
Pass Year:2006
Opened:1856
Rebuilt:1959
Accessible:yes
Zone:7
Former:Jerusalem Station (1854 - 1936)
Jerusalem (1863 - 1936)
Central Park (1867 - 1936)
Other Services Header:Former services
Other Services Collapsible:yes
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Custom:
Shape:none
Line:none
Marker:rail
Zoom:14

Bethpage station is a commuter rail station along the Main Line of the Long Island Rail Road. It is located at Stewart Avenue and Jackson Avenue, in Bethpage, New York, and serves Ronkonkoma Branch trains. Trains that travel along the Central Branch also use these tracks, but do not stop here.

History

Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) tracks were completed on the present line in 1841.[3] At first, trains did not stop here, with Bethpage appearing only as a notation ("late Bethpage") associated with the Farmingdale station to the east.[4] By 1854, the LIRR stopped at a local station called Jerusalem.[5] [6] A local post office opened January 29, 1857, with the name Jerusalem Station.[7] In 1867, the residents voted to change the name of the local post office to Central Park, and both that and Jerusalem appeared on LIRR schedules until 1936. The station and the post office were renamed Bethpage on October 1, 1936.[8] In 1959, the station burned down and was replaced. Electrified service through the station was inaugurated in 1987.[9]

Two nearby stations also had Bethpage in their name:

From 1873 until 1876, the Central Railroad of Long Island had a regularly scheduled stop also named Central Park near Stewart Avenue and Motor Lane in Plainedge, approximately south of the present station.[10] [11] [12] Service was continued by the LIRR at that location until about 1924.

Station layout

There are two tracks at this station with two 12-car high-level side platforms.

Platform A, side platform
Track 1← toward or
← does not stop here
Track 2 does not stop here →
toward or →
Platform B, side platform

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: TIMETABLE No. 4 . Long Island Rail Road . May 14, 2012 . August 4, 2022 . III.
  2. Average weekday, 2006 LIRR Origin and Destination Study
  3. Web site: Early LIRR History. https://web.archive.org/web/20000304071119/http://www.lirrhistory.com/lirrhist.html . usurped . March 4, 2000 .
  4. News: 1841 Brooklyn Eagle : LIRR timetable . October 26, 1841 . . April 17, 2012.
  5. News: Railroads . April 13, 1854 . 7 . . April 7, 2008.
  6. Web site: 1863 LIRR timetable . December 31, 2011. The schedule shows the stop is 2 miles from Farmingdale and 3 miles from Hicksville, the same distances .
  7. Web site: Nassau County Post Offices 1794-1879 . David Roberts . December 23, 2007 . July 25, 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080725014638/http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Civil/Nassau.P.O.html . dead . Book: New York Postal History: The Post Offices & First Postmasters from 1775 to 1980 . John L. Kay . Chester M. Smith, Jr.. American Philatelic Society. 1982.
  8. Book: Logerfo, John. Bethpage. August 3, 2015. Arcadia Publishing. 9781439652565. 75. en.
  9. News: Electric Service Extended by L.I.R.R.. Schmitt. Eric. December 31, 1987. The New York Times. July 23, 2011. Section B, p. 3.
  10. Web site: The Central RR of Long Island. https://web.archive.org/web/20000525195838/http://www.lirrhistory.com/central.html . usurped . May 25, 2000 .
  11. Web site: c1884 map of LI showing rail lines.
  12. Web site: The Stewart Line . 1874 & 1875 timetables show separate stations for Bethpage (now Old Bethpage), Bethpage Junction, and Central Park/Jerusalem.

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