Locust Valley station explained

Locust Valley
Style:LIRR
Address:Birch Hill Road & Piping Rock Road
Locust Valley, NY
Coordinates:40.8743°N -73.5987°W
Line:Oyster Bay Branch
Distance:29miles from [1]
Platform:2 side platforms
Tracks:2
Parking:Yes; Town of Oyster Bay Residency, Off-Peak and other
Bicycle:Yes
Passengers:479[2]
Pass Year:2006
Opened:April 19, 1869
Rebuilt:1872, 1885, 1906
Accessible:yes
Owned:Long Island Rail Road
Zone:7
Other Services Header:Former services
Other Services Collapsible:yes
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Custom:
Shape:none
Line:none
Marker:rail
Zoom:14

Locust Valley is a station on the Oyster Bay Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. It is located at Birch Hill Road and Piping Rock Road, south of Forest Avenue, in Locust Valley, Nassau County, New York.

History

The Locust Valley station was opened on April 19, 1869, and it served as the terminus of the line until 1889, upon the line's extension to Oyster Bay.[3] On August 22, the turntable and engine house were moved from Glen Street and installed here. Charles Hallet finished a depot here in November 1872; it was photographed by Brainerd in 1878.[4]

The station was rebuilt in November 1872, remodeled in 1885, and again rebuilt in December 1906, when the second station was moved to a private location.[5] [6] [7] The current station building was erected in 1909. The station also contains an old-style wooden shelter on the eastbound tracks, and a former interlocking tower. This former tower, known as LOCUST Tower, now serves as a Nassau County Police Department booth for the Second Precinct's patrolmen assigned to the area.

Station layout

This station has two high-level side platforms, each four cars long. A siding just west of the station served the Nassau-Suffolk Lumber until the late 1970s. The Oyster Bay Branch becomes a single track line a few hundred feet beyond the Birch Hill Road crossing at LOCUST interlocking. No bus access is available at the station.

Platform A, side platform
Track 1← toward,, or
Track 2 toward (Terminus)
Platform B, side platform

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: TIMETABLE No. 4 . Long Island Rail Road . May 14, 2012 . August 7, 2022 . VI.
  2. Average weekday, 2006 LIRR Origin and Destination Study
  3. Book: Morrison, David D. . Long Island Rail Road: Oyster Bay Branch . March 5, 2018 . Arcadia Publishing . 9781467128544 . en.
  4. Web site: The Long Island Rail Road: The age of expansion, 1863-1880 Vincent Seyfried Page 203 – Queens Public Library Digital . 2024-01-20 . digitalarchives.queenslibrary.org.
  5. http://ny.existingstations.com/counties/Nassau.html Existing Railroad Stations in Nassau County, New York
  6. http://ny.existingstations.com/archive/878.jpg 1872 Station House (Existing Railroad Stations in Nassau County, New York)
  7. http://ny.existingstations.com/archive/336.jpg 1906 Station House (Existing Railroad Stations in Nassau County, New York)