Speonk (LIRR station)

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Speonk

Station statistics

Lines

Montauk Branch

Connections

Suffolk County Transit
McRides Taxi

Platforms

Parking

Yes; Free

Bicycle facilities

Yes

Other information

Opened

1870

Rebuilt

1901, 1958, 2001

Accessible

Owned by

MTA

Fare zone

Formerly

"Remsenburg"(1895-1897)

Speonk is an unmanned railroad station on the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. It is located on North Phillips Avenue at Depot Road, in Speonk, New York, just north of Montauk Highway (CR 80). The station has two parking lots, one operated by the Long Island Railroad, and the other operated by the Town of Southampton, both of which are free. It also lies adjacent to one of the largest railroad freight yards on Long Island's East End. This yard comes into play for passenger service as well, as some scheduled trains terminate at Speonk rather than continue all the way to Montauk.

Speonk Station was originally built in February, 1870. From 1895–1897 it was known as "Remsenburg Station", acknowledging the hamlet of Remsenburg, New York, which lies just south of Speonk. The station was burned on June 22, 1901 and a second depot opened in December 1901. This latter agency and depot were closed in 1958, and the station has been unmanned ever since.

As part of its program to upgrade all stations to high-level platforms, the LIRR relocated the functional portion of Speonk Station between 2000 and 2001. A new platform was built on the west side of North Phillips Avenue (the aforementioned station house is on the east side), along with a new parking lot. The new platform includes an outdoor enclosure, but no new station building was constructed.

When Eastport and East Moriches Stations were closed by the LIRR on October 6, 1958, due to lack of usage, commuters were told to transfer either to this station or to Center Moriches Station. The elimination of the latter on March 16, 1998, makes this the next choice for commuters east of Mastic–Shirley station, almost ten miles away by road. The traffic from all three intervening stations which have been eliminated since 1950 has been transferred to these two stations.