Yaphank (LIRR station)

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Yaphank

Looking west on the Yaphank station platform at night (October 28, 2006).

Station statistics

Address

Park Street
Yaphank, NY

Lines

Greenport Branch

Connections

Suffolk County Transit
McRide's Taxi

Parking

Yes; free

Other information

Accessible

Owned by

MTA

Fare zone

Formerly

Milleville(1845-1846)

Yaphank is a Long Island Rail Road station in the hamlet of Yaphank, New York. It serves the railroad's Main Line (Greenport Branch) and is located on Park Street near Suffolk County Road 21 (Yaphank Avenue). It is also accessible from streets in and around Suffolk County Government Buildings on the north side of the tracks at the bottom of the Yaphank Avenue overpass.

The two sites that are closest to the station are the Suffolk County Police Department auto mechanics shop (a.k.a. "Vector Center") as well as a Georgia-Pacific railroad lumber yard.

Yaphank Station was originally built as Milleville Station in 1845, then replaced by a second station building in 1875, that was closed in 1958 and burned down in 1961. After this, it was little more than a sheltered platform surrounded by concrete.

Before World War II, Yapahnk Station was known as the stop for the Camp Siegfried Special, a train that took members of the German American Bund from parts of New York City to an infamous Hitler Youth camp known as Camp Siegfried.