Rockville Centre station

Rockville Centre is a station along the Babylon Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. It is officially at North Village Avenue and Front Street north of Sunrise Highway in Rockville Centre, New York, but the station property spreads west to North Center Avenue and east to North Park Avenue. Parking is available throughout the Village of Rockville Centre, near the station for those with residential and non-residential permits. The station is east of the former Rockville Centre Bus Depot. The station is 21.1 miles (34.0 km) from Penn Station.[2]

Rockville Centre
The main entrance of Rockville Centre station along Front Street
LocationNorth Village Avenue & Front Street
Rockville Centre, New York
Coordinates40.6583°N 73.6466°W / 40.6583; -73.6466
Owned byLong Island Rail Road
Line(s)Montauk Branch
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
Connections Nassau Inter-County Express: n4, n15, n16, Mercy Medical Shuttle
Construction
ParkingYes
Bicycle facilitiesYes
Disabled accessYes
Other information
Fare zone7
History
Opened1867 (SSRRLI)
Rebuilt1881, 1901, 1950
ElectrifiedMay 20, 1925
750 V (DC) third rail
Passengers
2012—20147,530[1]
Rank12 of 125
Services
Preceding station LIRR Following station
Lynbrook
towards Jamaica, Atlantic Terminal or Penn Station
 Babylon Branch
limited service
 Baldwin
towards Wantagh or Babylon
St. Albans
towards Jamaica, Atlantic Terminal or Penn Station
 Babylon Branch
     Montauk Branch does not stop here
Former services
Preceding station Long Island
Rail Road		 Following station
Lynbrook
toward Long Island City
 Montauk Division Baldwin
toward Montauk

History
A sign on the station's platform.

Rockville Centre station was originally built by the South Side Railroad of Long Island on October 28, 1867 and remodeled in July 1881. The station was rebuilt on October 14, 1901, as the original station was moved to a private location that year and razed in 2004.[3] The second station was razed in March 1949 as part of a grade elevation project that would dominate the Babylon Branch throughout the post-WWII era. A temporary station was built southeast of the former location between April 19 and April 22, 1949.

Rockville Centre station was the site of a major railroad accident on February 17, 1950 that resulted in the deaths of 32 people, and serious injury of over 100 people.[4] This occurred nine months before a similar accident in Kew Gardens, Queens that killed 79 people, and injured hundreds more. The current elevated structure was opened on July 17–18, 1950, and renovated toward the end of the 20th Century.

The exposed, western end of the station's platform.

Though some scenes from the 2004 movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind took place at Rockville Centre station, they were actually shot at Mount Vernon East station on the Metro-North Railroad New Haven Line.[5]

Platform and tracks

The station has one 12-car-long high-level island platform between the two tracks.

References
  1. "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
  2. Official MTA-LIRR Rockville Centre Station
  3. Old Rockville Centre Station photos (Arrt's Arrchives)
  4. Long Island Rail Road Wrecks
  5. Site about the film Archived 2012-03-09 at the Wayback Machine

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