Greenport station explained

Greenport
Style:Long Island Rail Road
Style2:left aligned version
Distance:94.3miles from [1]
Other: Suffolk County Transit: 92
Tracks:3
Parking:Yes; Free
Opened:June 29, 1844[2]
Rebuilt:1870, 1892
Accessible:yes
Zone:14
Former:Green–Port
Passengers:5[3]
Pass Year:2006
Other Services Header:Former services
Other Services Collapsible:yes
Nrhp:
Embed:yes
Greenport Railroad Station
Nrhp Type:hd
Nocat:yes
Location:Third and Wiggins St., Greenport, New York
Coordinates:41.0997°N -72.3636°W
Built:1892
Architecture:Late Victorian
Added:July 20, 1989
Area:4.8acres
Refnum:89000947
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Custom:
Shape:none
Line:none
Marker:rail
Zoom:14

Greenport is the terminus of the Main Line (Greenport Branch) of the Long Island Rail Road. It is officially located at Wiggins Street and Fourth Street in the Village of Greenport, New York, although the property spans as far east as 3rd Street and the Shelter Island North Ferry terminal.

History

Greenport station opened on July 29, 1844, as the terminus of the Main line of the LIRR, although some in the industry had hope of building an extension to a cross-sound bridge. The station was listed as Green–Port on the 1852 timetable.[4] On July 4, 1870, it was burned as part of Town festivities, and was rebuilt in October later that year. Another station was built in its place in 1892 (although some sources claim it was in 1894), with a distinguished ticket office bay window that was removed in the 1920s. A train shed also existed behind the turntable, which was replaced by a coal deposit area. Steam service existed until June 5, 1955,[5] mail was carried at the station until 1965, and the train ran onto a dock until 1978. A ticket booth with a station agent closed at Greenport on October 1, 1967.[6] The station, its freight house, and turntable were placed on the National Register of Historic Places as a national historic district on July 20, 1989.[7] [8] A high-level island platform leading to the old station and the Shelter Island Ferry was built in the late 1990s, as the case was with many other railroad stations on Long Island. The former freight house serves as the east end of the Railroad Museum of Long Island,[9] while the old station is now the East End Seaport Museum.[10]

Station layout

This station has one high-level island platform long enough for one and a half cars to receive and discharge passengers. There is an additional siding south of Track 2.

Track 1← limited service toward
Island platform, doors will open on the left or right
Track 2← limited service toward

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: TIMETABLE No. 4 . Long Island Rail Road . May 14, 2012 . August 4, 2022 . III.
  2. News: Long Island Railroad . April 1, 2021 . The Brooklyn Evening Star . August 15, 1844 . Brooklyn, New York . 1. Newspapers.com.
  3. Average weekday, 2006 LIRR Origin and Destination Study
  4. Web site: BROOKLYN & JAMAICA RAIL ROAD, LONG ISLAND R. R. 1852 TIMETABLE. arrts-arrchives.com.
  5. Web site: Last Steam Train to Greenport. https://web.archive.org/web/20060512215121/http://www.lirrhistory.com/laststeamgreenport.htm. usurped. May 12, 2006.
  6. Web site: LIRR Greenport Ticket Booth closing notice . https://web.archive.org/web/20150121193526/http://www.lirrhistory.com/LIRR%20Greenport%20Ticket%20Booth%20closing%20notice.jpg. usurped. January 21, 2015.
  7. Web site: National Register of Historical Places - NEW YORK (NY), Suffolk County. nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com.
  8. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Registration: Greenport Railroad Station. May 1989. 2010-02-20. Robert D. Kuhn. New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. https://web.archive.org/web/20121009223816/http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=8674. 2012-10-09. dead. See also: Web site: Accompanying nine photos. 2010-03-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20140203013251/http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=8705. 2014-02-03. dead.
  9. Web site: Greenport Site.
  10. Web site: East End Seaport Museum (About Us) . East End Seaport Museum (Archived Link; June 30, 2012) . unfit . https://web.archive.org/web/20120730081157/http://www.eastendseaport.org/AboutUs.htm . July 30, 2012 .