Lynbrook (LIRR station)

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Lynbrook

Station statistics

Address

Sunrise Highway & Peninsula Boulevard
Village of Lynbrook, NY

Lines

Babylon Branch

Long Beach Branch

Connections

MTA Long Island Bus
Lynbrook Taxi

Platforms

2(Two sides each)

Tracks

Parking

Yes

Bicycle facilities

Yes

Other information

Opened

October 28, 1867^[1]

Rebuilt

1881, 1920, 1938

Electrified

September 8, 1910

Accessible

Owned by

MTA

Fare zone

Formerly

Pearsall's Corners (1867 – April 1875)
Pearsall's (1875 – 1893)^[1]

Traffic

Passengers (2006)

362,690 ▬ 0% (LIRR)

Services

Preceding station	Long Island Rail Road	Following station

Saint Albans toward New York terminals	Babylon Branch	Rockville Centre toward Babylon
Valley Stream toward New York terminals	Long Beach Branch	Centre Avenue toward Long Beach

Lynbrook is a Long Island Rail Road train station in Lynbrook, New York at Sunrise Highway and Peninsula Boulevard. The station is elevated and there are two platforms: Platform A (north platform) serves the Babylon Branch and Platform B (south platform) serves the Long Beach Branch. The platforms can fit a 10-car train. The station is wheelchair accessible through elevator access.

1 Service
2 History
3 MTA Long Island Bus Connections
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Service

The station is listed on timetables and maps, as being served by both Long Beach and Babylon Branch trains. Both Long Beach and Babylon Branch trains stop there hourly (every 30 minutes when combined) on an alternating basis during off-peak hours. Peak service is about every 20 minutes or less. Late night service is every two hours.

[edit] History

Lynbrook Station was originally opened as Pearsall's Corner Station on October 28, 1867 by the South Side Railroad of Long Island. The station's name was shortened to Pearsall's in April 1875, and would hold onto that name until 1893. In 1880, the station became the northern terminus of the New York and Long Beach Railroad, a railroad line that was acquired by the LIRR and became the Long Beach Branch in 1886. When the NY&LB was added, the station gained the "PT Tower", which controlled the junction with the Montauk Branch until 1910, when Long Beach Branch tracks were extended to Valley Stream Station. The station was rebuilt in 1881, electrified on September 8, 1910, and then remodeled sometime in 1920, only to be razed in 1938 as part of a grade elimination project that was occurring along the Montauk, Atlantic and Babylon Branches throughout the Mid-20th Century. The third and current elevated station was located, 1,113 feet west of its former location and was opened to the public on October 18, 1938.^[2]