Bellport station
{{short description|Long Island Rail Road station in Suffolk County, New York}}
{{For|the closed station along the LIRR Main Line|Bartlett's station (LIRR)}}
{{distinguish|Bellmore station}}
{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox station
| name = Bellport
| style = Long Island Rail Road
| style2 =
| image = Bellport Station.jpg
| image_caption = The platform at the Bellport station in 2015
| address = Station Road & Montauk Highway
Bellport, New York
| coordinates = {{coord|40.773717|-72.943769|type:railwaystation_region:US-NY|display=inline,title}}
| line =
| other = {{bus icon}} Suffolk County Transit: 66, 77
| platform = 1 side platform
| tracks = 2
| parking = Yes
| bicycle =
| baggage_check =
| passengers = 78{{Cite web|url=http://web.mta.info/mta/planning/data/2012_LIRR_OD_Report_Volume_I_FINAL%2008232016.pdf#page=199|title=2012-2014 LIRR Origin and Destination Report : Volume I: Travel Behavior Among All LIRR Passengers|date=23 August 2016|publisher=Metropolitan Transportation Authority|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190717085537/http://web.mta.info/mta/planning/data/2012_LIRR_OD_Report_Volume_I_FINAL%2008232016.pdf|archive-date=17 July 2019|access-date=29 March 2020|at=PDF pp. 15, 199|quote=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 ... Bellport}}
| pass_year = 2012—2014
| pass_rank = 111 of 125
| opened = 1882
| closed =
| rebuilt = 1964, 1998
| accessible = yes
| code =
| owned = Long Island Rail Road
| zone = 12
| services = {{Adjacent stations|system=LIRR|line=Montauk|note-mid=limited service| left=Patchogue|right=Mastic–Shirley}}
| other_services_header = Former services
| other_services_collapsible = yes
| other_services = {{Adjacent stations|system=LIRR former|line=Montauk Division|left1=Hagerman|right1=Brookhaven}}
| mapframe = yes
| mapframe-custom = {{Infobox mapframe |shape=none |line=none |marker=rail |marker-color={{rcr|LIRR|Montauk}} |zoom=14 }}
}}
Bellport is a station along the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Rail Road,located at Bellport Station Road and Montauk Highway in North Bellport, Suffolk County, New York.
History
The Bellport station was originally built in the summer of 1882 by the Brooklyn and Montauk Railroad, an LIRR subsidiary designed to expand the former South Side Railroad of Long Island toward the east end.{{cite web |title=LONG ISLAND STATION HISTORY |url=http://www.trainsarefun.com/lirrphotos/lirrstationshistory.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006121650/http://www.trainsarefun.com/lirrphotos/lirrstationshistory.htm |archive-date=2014-10-06 |access-date=2015-02-21 |work=trainsarefun.com}} When Hagerman station was closed by the LIRR in 1929, the railroad advised travelers to use this station as a substitute. Twenty-nine years later, on October 6, 1958 the Brookhaven station was closed, sending commuters of that station here as well. Bellport's station house was closed in January 1959 and razed in May 1964, replaced with a shelter-shed.
The LIRR was planning to close this station on March 16, 1998 along with ten other stations due to low ridership, but decided to keep it open due to community opposition.{{cite news |last=Sengupta |first=Somini |date=March 15, 1998 |title=End of the Line for L.I.R.R.'s 10 Loneliest Stops |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/15/nyregion/end-of-the-line-for-lirr-s-10-loneliest-stops.html |access-date=August 7, 2009 |newspaper=The New York Times}}{{cite news |title=LIRR Scaling Back / 10 little-used stations to close in March |work=Newsday |date=1998-02-24 |first=Mitchell |last=Freedman |id={{ProQuest|279065499}} }} A depot with a high-level platform was built between 1998 and 1999, as many stations on the LIRR were getting at the time.
Station layout
The station has one high-level platform on the south side of the two tracks, long enough for one and a half cars to receive and discharge passengers. The north track, not next to the platform, is a siding. Unlike other stations, this station has neither a ticket vending machine nor a ticket office.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}}
| table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3
|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;" width=100|Track 1 |style="border-top:solid 1px gray;" width=550|← {{rcb|LIRR|Montauk|inline=yes}} limited service toward {{lirrs|Long Island City}} or {{lirrs|Penn Station}} ({{lirrs|Patchogue}}) |
| style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;border-top:solid 2px black;border-right:solid 2px black;border-left:solid 2px black;text-align:center;" colspan=2|Side platform, doors will open on the left or right {{access icon}} |
References
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External links
{{Commonscat-inline|Bellport (LIRR station)}}
{{LIRR links}}
- [http://arrts-arrchives.com/bellport.html 1962 Photograph (Arrt's Arrchives)]
- Unofficial LIRR Photography Pages - [https://web.archive.org/web/20111004144338/http://lirrpics.com/bellport.htm Bellport Station]
- [https://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.7739,-72.94292&spn=0.004111,0.013679&z=17&layer=c&cbll=40.7739,-72.94292&panoid=ib1HZhxjVvjocoVSOIZKYQ&cbp=12,258.23,,0,0.98 Station from Station Road from Google Maps Street View]
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Category:Long Island Rail Road stations in Suffolk County, New York
Category:Railway stations in the United States opened in 1882