Locust Manor station

Locust Manor
Locust Manor
	Locust Manor Station in March 2015.
Location	Farmer's Boulevard and Bedell Street; Locust Manor, Queens, New York
Coordinates	40.675022°N 73.764897°W
Owned by	Long Island Rail Road
Line(s)	Atlantic Branch
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	NYCT Buses: Q3, Q85
Construction
Parking	No
Other information
Fare zone	3
History
Opened	June 1869 (SSRRLI)
Closed	June 1876[1]; reopened soon after
Rebuilt	1876, 1959[2]
Electrified	October 16, 1905; 750 V (DC) third rail
Previous names	Locust Avenue (1867–1929)[1]
Traffic
Passengers (2012—2014)	1,389[3]
Rank	64 of 125
Services
Former services

Locust Manor is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Atlantic Branch in the Locust Manor neighborhood of Queens, New York City. The station is located at Farmers Boulevard and Bedell Street and is 14.0 miles (22.5 km) from Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan. The stop serves the Rochdale, Queens section and its Rochdale Village apartment complex, and was also the stop for the racecourse on which Rochdale Village was erected, Jamaica Race Course. Today it contains fiberglass populuxe designed shelters on high-level platforms.

On weekdays, the station is served by Far Rockaway Branch trains and Long Beach Branch trains bypass the station. This setup is reversed on weekends. One weekend overnight westbound Babylon Branch train also stops here.

Station layout

The populuxe-designed shelters as seen on a rainy late afternoon. These shelters have since been replaced.

This station has two high-level side platforms, each eight cars long.

This station has two exits; one exit, adjacent to the Rochdale Village power house, is on the northeast portion of the sprawling Rochdale housing co-operative. At that end of the station, the staircase leads to a Bedell Street (southbound) walkway in between two private Rochdale parking lots, and to a northbound walkway leading to residential 134th Avenue. The southern exit leads to Farmers Boulevard, between Garrett and Bedell streets. There are short canopies near the exits. Ticket machines are at a pedestrian tunnel on the north (Rochdale Village) end of the station, at the base of the eastbound (Long Island-bound) LIRR station staircase.

P Platform level	Platform A, side platform
	Track 1	← Far Rockaway Branch weekdays toward Jamaica, Atlantic Terminal, or Penn Station (Jamaica) ← Long Beach Branch weekends toward Jamaica, Atlantic Terminal, or Penn Station (Jamaica)
	Track 2	→ Long Beach Branch weekends toward Long Beach (Laurelton) → → Far Rockaway Branch weekdays toward Far Rockaway (Laurelton) →
	Platform B, side platform,
G	Ground level	Entrance/exit, buses

References

Vincent F. Seyfried, The Long Island Rail Road: A Comprehensive History, Part One: South Side R.R. of L.I., © 1961
Long Island Railroad Station History (TrainsAreFun.com) Archived 2011-01-06 at the Wayback Machine
"2012-2014 LIRR Origin and Destination Report : Volume I: Travel Behavior Among All LIRR Passengers" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. August 23, 2016. PDF pp. 15, 198. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 17, 2019. Retrieved March 29, 2020.

External links

Media related to Locust Manor (LIRR station) at Wikimedia Commons
Locust Manor – LIRR

Locust Manor LIRR timetable

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[Seyfried-1] Vincent F. Seyfried, The Long Island Rail Road: A Comprehensive History, Part One: South Side R.R. of L.I., © 1961

[2] Long Island Railroad Station History (TrainsAreFun.com) Archived 2011-01-06 at the Wayback Machine

[3] "2012-2014 LIRR Origin and Destination Report : Volume I: Travel Behavior Among All LIRR Passengers" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. August 23, 2016. PDF pp. 15, 198. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 17, 2019. Retrieved March 29, 2020.