Country Life Press station

Country Life Press is one of five stations of the Long Island Rail Road in the village of Garden City, New York. It serves the Hempstead Branch and is located on Damson Street and St. James Street South in Garden City.

Country Life Press
The station at Country Life Press, facing Hempstead-bound in June 2012
LocationSt. James Street South, between Chestnut Street & Damson Street
Garden City, New York,
Coordinates40.721234°N 73.629405°W / 40.721234; -73.629405
Owned byLong Island Rail Road
Platforms1 side platform
Tracks1
Construction
ParkingYes
Disabled accessYes
Other information
Fare zone4
History
Opened1911
ElectrifiedMay 26, 1908
750 V (DC) third rail
Traffic
Passengers (2006)1,236[1]
Services
Preceding station LIRR Following station
Garden City
towards Jamaica, Atlantic Terminal or Penn Station
 Hempstead Branch Hempstead
Terminus
Former services
West Hempstead   West Hempstead Branch   Mineola
West Hempstead   Oyster Bay Branch   East Williston

History

The station was originally opened in 1911 for the sole purpose of serving the book publisher Doubleday, Page & Company, which had moved in 1910 from Manhattan to Garden City, where co-founder and vice-president Walter Hines Page lived. It is named for the publisher's "Country Life Press" that was located across the tracks.[2] Country Life Press station has some former rights-of-way that led to the West Hempstead and the Oyster Bay Branches.[3] It also included the remnants of the Central Branch of the Long Island Rail Road that terminated near Nassau Coliseum.

Station layout

The station has one 10-car-long side platform on the east side of the single track.

Side platform, doors will open on the left or right
Track 1 ←      Hempstead Branch toward Jamaica, Atlantic Terminal, or Penn Station (Garden City)
←      Hempstead Branch toward Hempstead (Terminus) →
  • Country Life Press station
  • View of the tracks from the south end of the platform.
  • The station house along the north end of the low level platform.
  • The former West Hempstead Branch junction behind the tracks.

References
  1. Average weekday, 2006 LIRR Origin and Destination Study
  2. Hempstead Branch Stations (Unofficial LIRR history Website)
  3. Mineola to West Hempstead Branch (Unofficial LIRR History Web Site)

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