Bellport | |||||||||||||
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 The platform at the Bellport station in 2015 | |||||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||||
| Location | Station Road &Montauk Highway Bellport,New York | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°46′25″N72°56′38″W / 40.773717°N 72.943769°W /40.773717; -72.943769 | ||||||||||||
| Owned by | Long Island Rail Road | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1side platform | ||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Connections |  Suffolk County Transit: 66, 77 | ||||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||||
| Parking | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Accessible | yes | ||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 12 | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
| Opened | 1882 | ||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1964, 1998 | ||||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||||
| 2012—2014 | 78[1] | ||||||||||||
| Rank | 111 of125 | ||||||||||||
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Bellport is a station along theMontauk Branch of theLong Island Rail Road, located at Bellport Station Road andMontauk Highway inNorth Bellport,Suffolk County,New York.
The Bellport station was originally built in the summer of 1882 by theBrooklyn and Montauk Railroad, an LIRR subsidiary designed to expand the formerSouth Side Railroad of Long Island toward the east end.[2] WhenHagerman 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 theBrookhaven 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.[2]
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.[2][3][4] A depot with a high-level platform was built between 1998 and 1999, as many stations on the LIRR were getting at the time.[2]
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]
| Track1 | ← Montauk Branch limited service towardLong Island City orPenn Station(Patchogue) Montauk Branch limited service towardSpeonk orMontauk(Mastic–Shirley) → |
Side platform, doors will open on the left or right | |
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
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