Port Washington station
Port Washington is the terminus of the Long Island Rail Road's Port Washington Branch in Port Washington, New York. The station is located on Main Street, between Haven Avenue and South Bayles Avenue, just west of Port Washington Boulevard (NY 101), and is 19.9 miles (32 km) from Pennsylvania Station in Midtown Manhattan. A pedestrian bridge exists between the platforms, and is in line with Franklin Avenue, ending at Haven Avenue.
Port Washington | |||||||||||
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 The Port Washington LIRR terminal's station house, as seen from Main Street on June 6, 2021. | |||||||||||
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| Location | Main Street, between Haven & South Bayles Avenues Port Washington, New York | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40.829349°N 73.68733°W | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Port Washington Branch | ||||||||||
| Distance | 18.1 mi (29.1 km) from Long Island City[1] | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 island platforms | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 8 | ||||||||||
| Connections |  Nassau Inter-County Express: n23, Port Washington Shuttle | ||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||
| Parking | Yes (Port Washington Parking District permits required) | ||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Yes | ||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 4 | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | June 23, 1898 | ||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1930, 1998 | ||||||||||
| Electrified | October 21, 1913[2] 750 V (DC) third rail | ||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||
| 2012—2014 | 7,459[3] | ||||||||||
| Rank | 13 of 125 | ||||||||||
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History
A Port Washington station was recommended to Austin Corbin by a group of Port Washington residents in 1895, after a failed attempt to extend the branch between Great Neck and Roslyn in 1882. Efforts to bring rail service to the community actually date back to the days of the Flushing and North Side Railroad which established an unbuilt subsidiary called the "North Shore and Port Washington Railroad" that was dissolved once the F&NS was consolidated into the Flushing, North Shore and Central Railroad in 1874. The station was originally built on June 23, 1898 by the Great Neck and Port Washington Railroad, an LIRR subsidiary that existed between 1898 and 1902. It was electrified in 1913, and remodeled in 1930, and again in 1998 upon the station's 100th Anniversary.[4]
Station layout
This station has two 10-car long island platforms serving four tracks. The remaining tracks make up the Port Washington Yard and are used for train storage. In order to allow for increased service via the line to Grand Central Terminal once East Side Access is completed, two existing tracks in the yard will be extended to accommodate two additional ten-car trains. Work began in January 2018, and was scheduled to be completed by December 2020.[5]
| M | Mezzanine | Crossover between platforms and parking lots |
| Ground/platform level Station house and buses |
Track 1 | ← Storage track |
| Track 2 | ← Port Washington Branch toward Penn Station or Grand Central Madison (Plandome) | |
Island platform, doors will open on the left or right  | ||
| Track 3 | ← Port Washington Branch toward Penn Station or Grand Central Madison (Plandome) | |
| Track 4 | ← Port Washington Branch toward Penn Station or Grand Central Madison (Plandome) | |
| Island platform, doors will open on the left or right | ||
| Track 5 | ← Port Washington Branch toward Penn Station or Grand Central Madison (Plandome) | |
| Track 6 | ← Storage track | |
| Track 7 | ← Storage track | |
| Track 8 | ← Storage track | |
References
- Long Island Rail Road (May 14, 2012). "TIMETABLE No. 4" (PDF). p. VI. Retrieved August 6, 2022.
- "LIRR Branch Notes". trainsarefun.com.
- "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, 197. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 17, 2019. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
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 ... Port Washington
- "PORT WASHINGTON BRANCH Part 2 Auburndale to Port Washington". forgotten-ny.com. May 16, 2002.
- "L60601YL Port Washington Yard Reconfiguration". web.mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved September 3, 2017.
External links
Media related to Port Washington (LIRR station) at Wikimedia Commons
- Port Washington – LIRR
- Port Washington LIRR timetable
- Unofficial LIRR History Website Photos
- July 1999 Photo[Usurped!]
- December 2006 Photos
- Tracks 4 & 3[Usurped!] and Station House from the end of the platforms[Usurped!]
- Station House and Bicycle Racks[Usurped!] near the Historic Port Washington Directory[Usurped!]
- Franklin Avenue pedestrian bridge over storage tracks[Usurped!]
- View of Willowdale Avenue Bridge[Usurped!]
- Station view from[Usurped!] Pedestrian Bridges between Platforms[Usurped!]
- Port Washington Yard Reconfiguration (The LIRR Today)
- Station House from Google Maps Street View
- Platforms from Google Maps Street View
- Waiting Room from Google Maps Street View
