Copiague is a station on the

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of the Long Island Rail Road, located in

Copiague Copiague ( ) is a hamlet on Long Island (and census-designated place) in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population was 23,429 at the 2020 census. Copiague is an unincorporated place within Babylon. Geography Copiague is locate ...

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. The station is located on Marconi Boulevard and Great Neck Road ( Suffolk County Road 47), one block north of Oak Street ( Suffolk County Road 12).

History

Original station

The South Side Railroad of Long Island and

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once had another station in Copiague to the east called Belmont Junction, which was in service between 1873 and 1885. It is not known if the Long Island Rail Road built Copiague Station as a replacement for Belmont Junction, but it had served as one.

Current station

Copiague Station was originally built in 1902, and was rebuilt with temporary high-level platforms for the M1s on October 25, 1968. The original station was replaced with the current elevated station which opened on August 7, 1973. It is one of the few railroad stations along the Babylon Branch west of Patchogue that was not originally built by the

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Station layout

The station has one 10-car-long high-level

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between the two tracks.

References

External links

Copiague Station (Arrt's Arrchives)

Great Neck Road entrance from Google Maps Street View

Station House from Google Maps Street View

east entrance from Google Maps Street View
Long Island Rail Road stations in Suffolk County, New York Railway stations in the United States opened in 1902 {{NewYork-railstation-stub