Montauk Montauk Point State Park | |||||||||||||||
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Location | Edgemere Street & Fort Pond Road Montauk, New York | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 41°02′48″N71°57′16″W / 41.046793°N 71.954452°W | ||||||||||||||
Owned by | Long Island Rail Road | ||||||||||||||
Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||||||
Tracks | 7 | ||||||||||||||
Construction | |||||||||||||||
Parking | Yes (free) | ||||||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | Yes | ||||||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||
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Fare zone | 14 | ||||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||||
Opened | 1895 | ||||||||||||||
Rebuilt | 1907, 1927, 1942, 2001 | ||||||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||||||
2012—2014 | 55 [1] | ||||||||||||||
Rank | 116 of 125 | ||||||||||||||
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Montauk is the terminus of the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, as well as the easternmost railroad station on Long Island and in New York state. The station is located on Edgemere Street (Suffolk County Route 49) and Fort Pond Road west of Montauk Harbor, New York.
Originally built in 1895 by the Brooklyn and Montauk Railroad, it was demolished in 1907, then rebuilt twenty years later, only to be relocated by the US Navy during World War II along with a great deal of Montauk itself. The Navy confiscated the property along Fort Pond Bay in order to transform it into a sea plane base, and moved the LIRR property to the south with a third station built in 1942. The station was built in a similar style to the second station, but not the same design. Both the second and third stations still survive to this day, and for a while the second one was owned by the New York Ocean Science Laboratory. [2] Today the second station is on the property of the Roughrider Landing Condominiums. The third station house also contained a freight house that was moved to Industrial Road in the late 1960s, and is now a private residence. [3]
The current and fourth Montauk station is an unoccupied high-level center platform for two of the seven tracks. The platform from the old station leads to the current station. A wye exists west of the station that leads to a short spur across Industrial Road to Fort Pond, and was used to turn around engines. It also once had another spur on the opposite side of the tracks leading to a fishing dock on Fort Pond Bay. The previous station house is now known as the Depot Art Gallery. [4] Montauk Station was one of the settings for the 2004 movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind starring Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet. [5]
The noise of train engines left idling for long periods in the Montauk Yard was a cause of concern for local residents, who formed a group called the Montauk Anti-Pollution Coalition in 2003. The LIRR began shutting engines off in 2009. [6]
This station has one six-car-long high-level island platform between the two northernmost tracks. Five additional tracks to the south, not adjacent to the platform, comprise a train storage yard. When the LIRR provides extra service to the Hamptons during the summer, on weekends the yard is typically filled with passenger trains that terminate at Montauk, including the Friday afternoon Cannonball express train from Penn Station.
Track 1 | ← Montauk Branch limited service toward Long Island City or Penn Station (Amagansett) |
Island platform, doors will open on the left or right | |
Track 2 | ← Montauk Branch limited service toward Long Island City or Penn Station (Amagansett) |
Track 3 | ← Storage track |
Track 4 | ← Storage track |
Track 5 | ← Storage track |
Track 6 | ← Storage track |
Track 7 | ← Storage track |
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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 ... Montauk