Port Washington station

Port Washington is the terminus of the Long Island Rail Road's Port Washington Branch in Port Washington, New York. The station is located on Main Street, between Haven Avenue and South Bayles Avenue, just west of Middle Neck Road, and is 19.9 miles (32 km) from Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan. Pedestrian bridges between the platforms are in line with Franklin Avenue and Bayview Avenue, both of which end at Haven Avenue.

Port Washington
Port Washington station from the end of Herbert Avenue at Main Street, December 20, 2007.
LocationMain Street, between
Haven & South Bayles Avenues
Port Washington, New York
Coordinates40.829349°N 73.68733°W / 40.829349; -73.68733
Platforms2 island platforms
Tracks8
Connections Nassau Inter-County Express: n23
Construction
ParkingYes (residential permits required)
Bicycle facilitiesYes
Disabled accessYes
Other information
Fare zone4
History
OpenedJune 23, 1898
Rebuilt1930, 1998
ElectrifiedOctober 21, 1913[1]
750 V (DC) third rail
Passengers
2012—20147,459[2]
Rank13 of 125
Services
Preceding station LIRR Following station
Plandome
towards Penn Station
 Port Washington Branch Terminus

History

Port Washington station was recommended to Austin Corbin by a group of Port Washington residents in 1895, after a failed attempt to extend the branch between Great Neck and Roslyn in 1882. Efforts to bring rail service to the community actually date back to the days of the Flushing and North Side Railroad which established an unbuilt subsidiary called the "North Shore and Port Washington Railroad" that was dissolved once the F&NS was consolidated into the Flushing, North Shore and Central Railroad in 1874. The station was originally built on June 23, 1898 by the Great Neck and Port Washington Railroad, an LIRR subsidiary that existed between 1898 and 1902. It was electrified in 1913, and remodeled in 1930, and again in 1998 upon the station's 100th Anniversary.[3]

Station layout

This station has two 10-car long island platforms serving four tracks. The remaining tracks make up the Port Washington Yard and are used for train storage. In order to allow for increased service via the line to Grand Central Terminal once East Side Access is completed, two existing tracks in the yard will be extended to accommodate two additional ten-car trains. Work will begin in January 2018, and will be completed in December 2020.[4]

M Mezzanine Crossover between platforms and parking structure
Ground/platform level
Station house and buses		 Track 1 ← Storage track
Track 2 ←      Port Washington Branch toward Penn Station (Plandome)
Island platform, doors will open on the left or right
Track 3 ←      Port Washington Branch toward Penn Station (Plandome)
Track 4 ←      Port Washington Branch toward Penn Station (Plandome)
Island platform, doors will open on the left or right
Track 5 ←      Port Washington Branch toward Penn Station (Plandome)
Track 6 ← Storage track
Track 7 ← Storage track
Track 8 ← Storage track

References
  1. "LIRR Branch Notes". trainsarefun.com.
  2. "2012-2014 LIRR Origin and Destination Report : Volume I: Travel Behavior Among All LIRR Passengers" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 23 August 2016. PDF pp. 15, 197. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 July 2019. Retrieved 29 March 2020. 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 ... Port Washington
  3. "PORT WASHINGTON BRANCH Part 2 Auburndale to Port Washington". forgotten-ny.com.
  4. "L60601YL Port Washington Yard Reconfiguration". web.mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved September 3, 2017.

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The station in summer
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