Hampton Bays station

Hampton Bays is a railroad station along the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. It is on Good Ground Road between Springville Road and Suffolk CR 32 (Ponquogue Avenue) in Hampton Bays, New York. Parking is free and located on Good Ground Road.

Hampton Bays
The Hampton Bays station in November 2014, facing Montauk-bound.
LocationGood Ground Road, & Springville Road
Hampton Bays, New York
Coordinates40.876464°N 72.524566°W / 40.876464; -72.524566
Owned byLong Island Rail Road
Platforms1 side platform
Tracks2
Connections Suffolk County Transit: S92
Construction
ParkingYes (free)
Bicycle facilitiesYes
Disabled accessYes
Other information
Fare zone14
History
Opened1869 or 1871
Closed1873, 1958
Rebuilt1874, 1913, 1974, 2000–01
Previous namesGood Ground (1869–1922)[1]
Traffic
Passengers (2012—2014)78[2]
Rank112 of 125
Services
Preceding station LIRR Following station
Westhampton
towards Jamaica, Long Island City or Penn Station
 Montauk Branch Southampton
towards Montauk
Westhampton
towards Speonk
 Montauk Branch
South Fork Commuter Connection
Former services
Preceding station LIRR Following station
East Quogue
towards Long Island City
 Montauk Branch Canoe Place
towards Montauk

History

The Hampton Bays station was originally built along what was then the Sag Harbor Branch on December 20, 1869[3] (although some sources claim it was in February 1871) as "Good Ground." It was the terminus of the line until the summer of 1870 when it was extended to Sag Harbor. The station was renamed "Hampton Bays" in June 1922, but the original name can be found along one of the streets where it is located on. The station burned on November 4, 1873. The second station was opened on January 10, 1874 and closed in 1913, but used as an "express house" for the 3rd depot, which opened in the Summer 1913. The station house was built in the style typical of stations such as Manhasset, Riverhead, Bay Shore, Northport, and Mineola stations,[4] and closed in 1958, but remained a flag stop, then razed sometime around 1964. The station stop was moved 2,000 feet west on December 26, 1974. When Quogue station was closed on March 16, 1998, Hampton Bays was one of the two stations that replaced it. The other was Westhampton. The existing depot's high-level platforms were added between 1998 and 1999.

A Montauk-bound train arrives at Hampton Bays Station as it passes an idling train on the next track.

Station layout

The station has one six-car-long high-level side platform on the north side of the main track. A siding is on the south side of the main track.

Side platform, doors will open on the left or right
Track 1 ←      Montauk Branch toward Speonk, Jamaica, Long Island City, or Penn Station (Westhampton)
←      Montauk Branch toward Montauk (Southampton) →
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References
  1. "Good Ground Station Now Hampton Bays". The Brooklyn Citizen. March 19, 1922. p. 5. Retrieved December 4, 2019 – via Newspapers.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, 199. 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 ... Hampton Bays
  3. "PRR Chronology, 1869" (PDF). (114 KiB), June 2004 Edition
  4. George Skidmore photograph (Hampton Bays Online)
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