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Patchogue station#PD tower

{{short description|Long Island Rail Road station in Suffolk County, New York}}

{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2023}}

{{Infobox station

| name = Patchogue

| style = LIRR

| image = Patchogue Station.jpg

| image_size =

| image_caption = Patchogue station from the entrance at Division Street & Cedar Avenue; December 26, 2007

| address = Division Street & South Ocean Avenue
Patchogue, New York

| coordinates = {{coord|40.761841|-73.015735|display=inline,title}}

| line =

| other = {{bus icon}} Suffolk County Transit: 2, 6, 51, 53, 55, 66, 77, 77Y (77Y weekday rush hours only)
{{bus icon}} Patchogue-Village Transit

| platform = 1 side platform

| tracks = 2

| parking = Yes ($2.00 for 12 hours)

| bicycle = Yes

| baggage_check =

| passengers = 1,191{{Cite web|url=http://web.mta.info/mta/planning/data/2012_LIRR_OD_Report_Volume_I_FINAL%2008232016.pdf#page=198|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, 198|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 ... Patchogue}}

| pass_year = 2012—2014

| pass_rank = 71 of 125

| opened = April 1869 (SSRRLI)Vincent F. Seyfried, The Long Island Rail Road: A Comprehensive History, Part One: South Side R.R. of L.I., 1961

| closed =

| rebuilt = 1888, 1963, 1997

| accessible = yes

| code =

| owned = Long Island Rail Road

| zone = 10

| services = {{Adjacent stations|system=LIRR

|line=Montauk|left=Sayville|right=Bellport|note-right=limited service}}

| other_services_collapsible = yes

| other_services_header = Former services

| other_services = {{Adjacent stations|system=LIRR former|line=Montauk Division|left1=Blue Point|right1=East Patchogue}}

| mapframe = yes

| mapframe-custom = {{Infobox mapframe |shape=none |line=none |marker=rail |marker-color={{rcr|LIRR|Montauk}} |zoom=14 }}

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Patchogue is a station of the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Rail Road in the Village of Patchogue, Suffolk County, New York. It is on Division Street between West Avenue (CR 19) and South Ocean Avenue. The station is the eastern terminus for some trains on the branch.

Ferries to Fire Island board from a port near the station.{{cite web|title=Life's a Beach on Long Island; The MTA LIRR is the "Greenest Way" to a Summer in Blue Ocean and White Sand Luxury|url=http://www.mta.info/news/stories/?story=75|work=MTA|access-date=20 March 2013}}

History

Between 1869 and 1879 Patchogue station was the east end of the South Side Railroad of Long Island. It even had spurs and roundhouses between West and Railroad Avenues, as well as another spur between River Avenue and West Avenue for the textile plant that more recently has served as the former Patchogue Campus of Briarcliffe College. Prior to acquisition by the Long Island Rail Road there was a proposal by the SSRRLI to extend the main line southeast towards Bellport, then northeast to Brookhaven and Southaven. The station in Brookhaven was to be named "Fireplace" after Fireplace Neck.[http://arrts-arrchives.com/images2/ssrrmap.jpg Craige & Company's 1870 Southside Railroad of Long Island Map (Arrt's Arrchive)]

The station was rebuilt in 1889 and again on July 30, 1963.[http://www.trainsarefun.com/lirrphotos/LIRR%20Station%20History.htm LIRR Station History (Dave Keller's Long Island Rail Road Photos & Recollections)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110101001355/http://www.trainsarefun.com/lirrphotos/LIRR%20Station%20History.htm |date=2011-01-01 }}{{cite book |last1=Morrison |first1=David D. |last2=Pakaluk |first2=Valerie |title=Long Island Rail Road Stations |series=Images of Rail |year=2003 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |location=Chicago |page=96 |isbn=0-7385-1180-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=20BUDIVc-5AC&pg=PA96 |access-date=2011-11-25}} As part of the 1963 reconstruction, Railroad Avenue was terminated at Sephton Street, along the north side of the tracks, and the baggage and express house was torn down for additional parking. When the nearby Blue Point station was closed by the Long Island Rail Road in 1980, former Blue Point commuters opted to use Patchogue station.

A high-level platform was constructed at the station in the late 1990s, in order to serve the LIRR's then-new C3 bilevel railcars, which require high-level platforms. The renovations also made the station compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

PD Tower

{{anchor|PD Tower}}

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File:Garden @ LIRR PD Tower Site; Northeast.JPGIn 1912, the Long Island Rail Road added a control tower to the Patchogue Station on South Ocean Avenue, for use by both the Montauk Branch and the former trolley line owned by the Suffolk Traction Company. This control tower was designated by the LIRR as the "PD Tower" and was also used for hooping.

In 1970, all switches and crossings once controlled by the tower were automated, but hooping continued. At this point, the tower's structure began to decline and deteriorate. Residents began referring to it as the "Leaning Tower of Patchogue," and it ultimately fell into a state of disrepair. On August 23, 2006, PD Tower was ultimately torn down.{{cite news| newspaper=Newsday| url=http://www.lirrhistory.com/aug2006/PD%20Tower%20Newsday.jpg| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121002081153/http://www.lirrhistory.com/aug2006/PD%20Tower%20Newsday.jpg| url-status=usurped| archive-date=October 2, 2012| title=Historic LIRR tower is demolished| author=Bleyer, Bill| date=August 23, 2006| access-date=2006-12-30}}

Today, a flower garden can be found where PD Tower used to stand.

Station layout

The station has one six-car-long high-level platform on the south side of the two tracks; the north track – not next to the platform – is a siding track.

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|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;" width=100|Track 1

|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;" width=550|← {{rcb|LIRR|Montauk|inline=yes}} toward {{lirrs|Long Island City}} or {{lirrs|Penn Station}} ({{lirrs|Sayville}})
{{0|←}} {{rcb|LIRR|Montauk|inline=yes}} limited service toward {{lirrs|Speonk}} or {{lirrs|Montauk}} ({{lirrs|Bellport}}) →
{{0|←}} {{rcb|LIRR|Montauk|inline=yes}} termination track →

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}}

Connections

References

External links

{{Commons category|Patchogue (LIRR station)}}

{{LIRR links}}

  • {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20000519174750/http://www.lirrhistory.com/feb2000/pd.JPG PD Tower (Unofficial LIRR History Website)]}}
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20071001003844/http://www.newsday.com/media/photo/2003-08/9158218.jpg Older Patchogue Station(Newsday)]
  • [http://arrts-arrchives.com/ssrrpatchogue.html Original Patchogue Station] (Arrt's Arrchives)
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20140725212813/http://www.patchoguevillage.org/trans.htm Patchogue Village Bus]
  • [http://www.trainsarefun.com/lirrphotos/patchogue/recallingPDtower.htm Railfan Recollections at LIRR "PD" Tower] and [http://www.trainsarefun.com/lirr/patchogue/PDsignals/PDsignals.htm signals (TrainsAreFun.com)]
  • [http://photos.pgengler.net/gallery/2006-05-01 More PD Tower Pics (May 1, 2006)]
  • Unofficial LIRR Photography Site (lirrpics.com)
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20111004144226/http://lirrpics.com/patchogue.htm Patchogue Station]
  • [http://thelirrtoday.blogspot.com/2013/08/interlocking-walkthrough-pd.html PD Interlocking] and [http://thelirrtoday.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-leaning-tower-of-patchogue.html The Leaning Tower of Patchogue (The LIRR Today)] {{registration required}}
  • [https://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.762401,-73.013723&spn=0.004112,0.013679&z=17&layer=c&cbll=40.762401,-73.013723&panoid=Op2KuBCmTmYtl_PYc4v3CA&cbp=12,240.25,,0,1.47 Station from Ocean Avenue 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 1869

Category:Patchogue, New York

Category:1869 establishments in New York (state)