Cold Spring Harbor station explained

Cold Spring Harbor
Style:Long Island Rail Road
Style2:left aligned version
Coordinates:40.8351°N -73.4516°W
Other:NYS Bike Route 25A[1]
Platform:2 side platforms
Tracks:2
Parking:Yes; Town of Huntington residential permits
Bicycle:Yes; Bike Racks and Lockers
Passengers:4,166[2]
Pass Year:2006
Opened:1901 or 1902
Rebuilt:1948
Former:Woodbury (1875 - 1880)
Accessible:Partially ADA-accessible (Platform A)
Zone:9
Other Services Header:Former services
Other Services Collapsible:yes
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Custom:
Shape:none
Line:none
Marker:rail
Zoom:14

Cold Spring Harbor is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Port Jefferson Branch. It is located at West Pulaski Road and East Gate Drive, just south of Woodbury Road in West Hills, Suffolk County, New York.

History

A station was built in Nassau (then Queens) County in December 1875 in nearby Woodbury as "Woodbury station", as an extension of the Hicksville and Syosset Railroad. It was renamed "Cold Spring station" on October 15, 1880,[4] [5] when the southern part of Laurel Hollow was still known as Cold Spring. Sometime between 1901 and 1902, the station was moved east to the now Cold Springs Hills community of the hamlet of West Hills and took its current name of Cold Spring Harbor. The station was reconstructed in 1948, during which time the current station house was erected.[6] In 1970, the station was electrified, along with the rest of the Port Jefferson Branch between Mineola and Huntington.[7]

Since 2007, the station has served as the western terminus of New York State Bicycle Route 25A.[8]

Station layout

The station has two high-level side platforms. Platform A is 12 cars long and Platform B is eight cars long. One inbound morning train and three outbound evening trains stop at the opposite platform.

MMezzanineCrossover between platforms
P
Platform level
Ground levelEntrance/exit, parking, buses
Platform A, side platform
Track 1← toward,, or
Track 2 toward or
Platform B, side platform

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://www.dot.ny.gov/portal/pls/portal/MEXIS_APP.DYN_BIKE_TRAIL_DETAIL_MAIN.show?p_arg_names=p_trail_id&p_arg_values=234 State Bike Route 25A (Bicycling in New York; NYSDOT)
  2. http://thelirrtoday.blogspot.com/p/2006-origin-destination-survey.html Average weekday, 2006 LIRR Origin and Destination Study
  3. News: Start New Timetable on Electrified Section . September 23, 2021 . . October 19, 1970 . BQL1. Newspapers.com.
  4. Book: Morrison, David D. . Long Island Rail Road Stations . Pakaluk . Valerie . Arcadia . 2003 . 0-7385-1180-3 . Chicago . November 20, 2011.
  5. http://www.trainsarefun.com/lirr/lirrpaper/ColdSpringGenlOrder90_10-15-1880.jpg Long Island Rail Road: General Order Number 90 (TrainsAreFun.com)
  6. http://www.trainsarefun.com/lirrphotos/LIRR%20STATION%20HISTORY.pdf LIRR station History (TrainsAreFun.com)
  7. News: Change at Jamaica Is Only a Memory For 12,000 Riders . Werner . Bamberger . The New York Times . October 20, 1970 . 88 . 2009-09-17.
  8. Book: New York State Department of Transportation . Official Description of Highway Touring Routes, Bicycling Touring Routes, Scenic Byways, & Commemorative/Memorial Designations in New York State . January 2012 . PDF . dead . February 16, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130729075940/https://www.dot.ny.gov/divisions/operating/oom/transportation-systems/repository/2012%20tour-bk.pdf . July 29, 2013.