Cold Spring Harbor station

Cold Spring Harbor is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Port Jefferson Branch at West Pulaski Road and East Gate Drive, just south of Woodbury Road in West Hills, New York.

Cold Spring Harbor
Cold Spring Harbor station
General information
LocationWest Pulaski Road & East Gate Drive
Huntington, New York
Coordinates40.835056°N 73.451611°W / 40.835056; -73.451611
Owned byLong Island Rail Road
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
ConnectionsNYS Bike Route 25A[1]
Construction
ParkingYes; Town of Huntington residential permits
Bicycle facilitiesYes; Bike Racks and Lockers
AccessiblePartially ADA-accessible (Platform A)
Other information
Fare zone9
History
Opened1901 or 1902
Rebuilt1948
ElectrifiedOctober 19, 1970[2]
750 V (DC) third rail
Previous namesWoodbury (1875–1880)
Passengers
20064,166[3]
Services
Preceding station Long Island Rail Road Following station
Syosset
toward Penn Station, Grand Central or Long Island City
 Port Jefferson Branch Huntington
toward Port Jefferson
Former services
Preceding station Long Island
Rail Road		 Following station
Syosset
toward Hicksville
 Wading River Branch Huntington
toward Wading River

History

A station was built in Nassau (then Queens) County in December 1875 in Woodbury as "Woodbury station", as an extension of the Hicksville and Syosset Railroad. It was renamed "Cold Spring station" on October 15, 1880,[4] when the southern part of Laurel Hollow, New York was still known as Cold Spring. Sometime between 1901 and 1902 it was moved east to the now Cold Springs Hills community of the hamlet of West Hills, New York and took its current name of Cold Spring Harbor name. The station was razed then rebuilt in 1948.[5] In 1970 the station was electrified, along with the rest of the Port Jefferson Branch between Mineola and Huntington stations.[6] Since 2007, the station has served as the western terminus of New York State Bicycle Route 25A.

Station layout

The station has two high-level side platforms. Platform A is 12 cars long and Platform B is eight cars long. One inbound morning train and three outbound evening trains stop at the opposite platform.

M Mezzanine Crossover between platforms
P
Platform level		 Ground level Entrance/exit, parking, buses
Platform A, side platform Disabled access
Track 1 ←      Port Jefferson Branch toward Grand Central Madison, Long Island City, or Penn Station (Syosset)
Track 2 ←      Port Jefferson Branch toward Huntington or Port Jefferson (Huntington) →
Platform B, side platform

References
  1. State Bike Route 25A (Bicycling in New York; NYSDOT)
  2. "Start New Timetable on Electrified Section". The New York Daily News. October 19, 1970. p. BQL1. Retrieved September 23, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  3. Average weekday, 2006 LIRR Origin and Destination Study
  4. Long Island Rail Road: General Order Number 90 (TrainsAreFun.com)
  5. LIRR station History (TrainsAreFun.com)
  6. Bamberger, Werner (October 20, 1970). "Change at Jamaica Is Only a Memory For 12,000 Riders". The New York Times. p. 88. Retrieved September 17, 2009.


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