St. James station (LIRR)

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St. James Long Island Rail Road station
General information
LocationLake Avenue and Railroad Avenue
St. James, New York
Owned by Long Island Rail Road
Platforms1 side platform
Tracks1
Connections NYS Bike Route 25
Construction
ParkingYes; Free and Town of Smithtown permits
Bicycle facilitiesYes
AccessibleYes
Other information
Fare zone10
History
Opened1873 [1]
Rebuilt1974, 1997
Passengers
2006588 [2]
Services
Preceding station MTA NYC logo.svg Long Island Rail Road Following station
Smithtown Port Jefferson Branch
diesel service
Stony Brook
Former services
Preceding station Long Island
Rail Road
Following station
Smithtown
toward Hicksville
Wading River Branch Flowerfield
toward Wading River
Saint James Railroad Station
Location Saint James, New York, USA
Coordinates 40°52′59.78″N73°9′29.35″W / 40.8832722°N 73.1581528°W / 40.8832722; -73.1581528
Built1873
ArchitectCalvin L'Hommedieu
Part of Saint James Historic District (ID73001275)
MPS Saint James District MRA
Added to NRHPJuly 20, 1973 [3]
Location
St. James station (LIRR)

St. James is a station and historic landmark on the Port Jefferson Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. The station is located on Lake Avenue and Railroad Avenue, just south of New York State Route 25A in St. James, Suffolk County, New York.

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History

St. James station was built in 1873, along the Smithtown and Port Jefferson Railroad in the northern part of the Town of Smithtown. [4] The station house, designed by Calvin L'Hommedieu, remains the second-oldest existing station-house of the Long Island Rail Road, surpassed only by Hewlett station, which was originally built in 1869 by the South Side Railroad of Long Island. When the Flowerfield station to the east was abandoned in 1958, the commuters who previously used that depot at the Gyrodyne Company of America were redirected to the St. James and Stony Brook, New York depots. Until 1964, the station also contained an express house and an outhouse, both of which were demolished along with some trees to make room for an expanded parking lot, much to the chagrin of the community. The station is located within the Saint James District, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. [5]

The station faced two restoration projects in the MTA era. The first took place in 1974, and the second took place in 1997, when the LIRR installed high-level platforms at the station.

No buses stop at the station. However, local suburban taxicab service is available, and the station serves as a stop along New York State Bicycle Route 25. [6] The only modifications to the depot in recent years[ when? ] have been to make the station more accessible to the disabled.

Station layout

This station has one 12-car-long high-level side platform north of the track.

Side platform, doors will open on the left or right Wheelchair symbol.svg
Track 1      Port Jefferson Branch toward Huntington, Hunterspoint Avenue, Jamaica, Long Island City, or Penn Station (Smithtown)
      Port Jefferson Branch toward Port Jefferson (Stony Brook)

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References

  1. Port Jefferson Branch Stations (Unofficial LIRR History Website) [usurped]
  2. Average weekday, 2006 LIRR Origin and Destination Study
  3. National Register of Historic Places Listings; October 2, 1986
  4. "Long Island Travel". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle . January 3, 1873. p. 4. Retrieved June 2, 2024 via Newspapers.com.
  5. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  6. "Long Island Bike Map". New York State Department of Transportation . Retrieved March 24, 2011.

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