Copiague station explained
| Copiague |
| Style: | Long Island Rail Road |
| Style2: | left aligned version |
| Address: | Marconi Boulevard & Great Neck Road (CR 47)
Copiague, New York |
| Coordinates: | 40.681°N -73.399°W |
| Line: | Montauk Branch |
| Platform: | 1 island platform |
| Tracks: | 2 |
| Electrified: | May 20, 1925
750 V (DC) third rail |
| Parking: | 747 spaces |
| Bicycle: | Yes |
| Accessible: | Yes |
| Passengers: | 2,629[1] |
| Pass Year: | 2012 - 2014 |
| Pass Rank: | 41 of 125 |
| Opened: | 1902 |
| Rebuilt: | 1967 - 1973 |
| Owned: | Long Island Rail Road |
| Zone: | 9 |
| Other Services Header: | Former services |
| Other Services Collapsible: | yes |
| Mapframe: | yes |
| Mapframe-Custom: | | Shape: | none | | Line: | none | | Marker: | rail | | Zoom: | 14 |
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Copiague is a station on the Babylon Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, located in Copiague, New York. The station is located on Marconi Boulevard and Great Neck Road (Suffolk County Route 47), one block north of Oak Street (Suffolk County Route 12).
History
Original station
The South Side Railroad of Long Island and Central Railroad of Long Island once had another station in Copiague to the east called Belmont Junction, which was in service between 1873 and 1885. It is not known if the Long Island Rail Road built Copiague Station as a replacement for Belmont Junction, but it had served as one.[2] [3] [4]
Current station
Copiague Station was originally built in 1902 and was rebuilt with temporary high-level platforms for the M1s on October 25, 1968. The original station was replaced with the current elevated station which opened on August 7, 1973. It is one of the few railroad stations along the Babylon Branch west of Patchogue that was not originally built by the South Side Railroad of Long Island.
In 2023, the MTA agreed to make the Amityville, Copiague and Lindenhurst stations wheelchair-accessible to settle a lawsuit.[5] An elevator at the Copiague station opened on May 16th, 2024.[6] [7] This project brought the station into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.[8]
Station layout
The station has one 10-car-long high-level island platform between the two tracks.
External links
Notes and References
- 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, 197. 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.
- The Long Island News and the Owl. . 26 March 1925. ELECTRIFICATION OF MONTAUK DIVISION NEARLY COMPLETED. Aside from a short gap at each sub-station, the transmission line has been completed, including poles and wires, from Lynbrook to Belmont Junction, west of Babylon. ... All steam trains now operated without stops between Jamaica and Babylon and points east thereof, will be run over the old Central Railroad via Belmont Junction, Bethpage Junction, Hicksville and the Main Line to and from Jamaica. . 1925/03/26. 3.
- Edwards. Everett J.. The East Hampton Star. . 24 October 1935. L, No. 52. TRAIN SERVICE IMPROVES ON L. I. SINCE YEAR 1925. The year 1925 marked the opening of the Central Branch Extension, connecting the Main line from Bethpage Junction, Farmingdale, with the Montauk Branch at Belmont Junction, Babylon. The operation of trains over this extension saved even more time, and the railroad company was enabled to send all its through trains on the South Shore via that route, resulting in a reduction of three or four minutes in the running time of these trains.. 1935/10/24. 25, col. 6.
- The Sun. 1888-06-22. New York. RAILROAD NEWS. 1888/06/22. 7. 1940-7831. The Belmont Junction, one mile this side of Babylon, on the Central extension of the Long Island road, will be removed and the extension will have a separate track into Babylon. This will do away with switching on to the Mantawk[sic] division, and Montawk trains will not have to pull up. The Improvement will be completed in about two weeks. .
- Web site: Korb . Priscila . MTA Agrees To Install Elevators At 3 LIRR Train Stations . Lindenhurst, NY Patch . July 29, 2020 . June 30, 2024.
- Web site: Copiague LIRR station now fully ADA accessible . News 12 - Long Island . May 16, 2024 . June 30, 2024.
- Web site: Castillo . Alfonso A. . LIRR opens elevator at Copiague station, among $169M in accessibility projects . Newsday . May 16, 2024 . June 30, 2024.
- Web site: 2024-05-16 . ICYMI: Governor Hochul Announces LIRR Copiague Station Now Fully Accessible . 2024-05-16 . MTA . en.
