Montauk (LIRR station)

Montauk

The former Montauk Station house, now the Depot Art Gallery (2013)
Location Edgemere Street & Fort Pond Road
Montauk, New York
Coordinates 41°02′48″N 71°57′16″W / 41.046793°N 71.954452°WCoordinates: 41°02′48″N 71°57′16″W / 41.046793°N 71.954452°W
Owned by Long Island Rail Road
Line(s)
Platforms 1 island platform
Tracks 7
Connections Suffolk County Transit: 10C
Construction
Parking Yes (free)
Bicycle facilities Yes
Disabled access Yes
Other information
Fare zone 14
History
Opened 1895
Rebuilt 1907, 1927, 2001
Traffic
Passengers (2006) 23[1]
Services
Preceding station   LIRR   Following station
Montauk BranchTerminus
Current and former locations
Promised Land station Montauk Branch

Montauk is the terminus of the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, and as such is the easternmost railroad station on Long Island. The station is located on Edgemere Street (Suffolk County Road 49) and Fort Pond Road west of Montauk Harbor, New York.

History

Originally built in 1895 by the Brooklyn and Montauk Railroad, it was demolished in 1907, then rebuilt twenty years later, only to be relocated by the US Navy during World War II along with a great deal of Montauk itself. The relocated station also contained a freight house that was moved to Industrial Road in the late-1960s.

The current Montauk station is an unoccupied high-level center platform for two of the seven tracks. The platform from the old station leads to the current station. A wye exists west of the station that leads to a short spur across Industrial Road to Fort Pond, and was used to turn around engines. It also once had another spur on the opposite side of the tracks leading to a fishing dock on Fort Pond Bay. The previous station house is now known as the Depot Art Gallery. Montauk Station was one of the settings for the 2004 movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind starring Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet.

The noise of train engines left idling for long periods in the Montauk Yard has been a recent cause of concern for local residents, who formed a group called the Montauk Anti-Pollution Coalition in 2003. The LIRR began shutting engines off in 2009.[2]

Platform and track configuration

Main ■Montauk Branch toward New York (Amagansett)
1 ■Montauk Branch toward New York (Amagansett)
2–6 ■Montauk Branch no service (yard)

This station has one six-car-long high-level island platform. There are seven tracks at this location. The five southern tracks, not adjacent to the platform, comprise a train storage yard. When the LIRR provides extra service to the Hamptons during the summer, on weekends the yard is typically filled with passenger trains that terminate at Montauk, including the Friday afternoon Cannonball express train from Penn Station.

See also

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Average weekday, 2006 LIRR Origin and Destination Study
  2. ↑ Hewitt, Janis (September 10, 2009). "Ah, the Sound of Silence". The East Hampton Star. Retrieved 2010-01-31.

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