Port Jefferson (LIRR Station)
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Port Jefferson is the
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for the
Port Jefferson Branch The Port Jefferson Branch is a rail line and service owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. The branch splits from the Main Line (Long Island Rail Road), Main Line just east of Hicksville ...
of the
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in
Port Jefferson Station, New York Port Jefferson Station is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Brookhaven, in Suffolk County, in New York, United States. The population was 7,838 as of the 2010 census. History The area now known as Port Jefferson Station ...
. The station is located on
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(Main Street), on the north side of the tracks, but is also accessible from Oakland Avenue, as well as Railroad Avenue and Union Street on the south side of the tracks. All service is diesel-only, and most off-peak trains are shuttles requiring a transfer to an electric train at Huntington. The station also serves
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buses and occasionally the Village of Port Jefferson's own local jitney buses. One Suffolk County Transit bus – Route 51 – leads to the
Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Ferry The Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Steamboat Company, commonly referred to as the Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Ferry, is a privately owned transportation company that operates a passenger and vehicle ferry service across the Long Island Sound, betwe ...
, approximately one mile to the north. It features service to
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, hence the reason for some station name signs being adjacent to "Bridgeport Ferries" signs.


History

Port Jefferson station was originally opened on January 13, 1873 by the
Smithtown and Port Jefferson Railroad The Port Jefferson Branch is a rail line and service owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in the U.S. state of New York. The branch splits from the Main Line just east of Hicksville and runs northeast and east to Port Jefferson. Seve ...
, but was burned on February 1, 1874. The second station was completed in June 1875. In 1895, the Port Jefferson Branch was extended to Wading River. The second Port Jefferson station was closed in 1903, and was used as a yard building, while the third station was built across Main Street. Designed by
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and funded by the residents of the nearby Village of Belle Terre, it opened on July 29, 1903. Port Jefferson Station resumed its status as the terminus of the line on October 9, 1938, when the line was abandoned between Port Jefferson and Wading River. The "yard building" was abandoned in April 1963. The station was remodeled in 1968, but restored in 2001 based on its previous 1903 design. Port Jefferson is from Penn Station and travel time varies between 1 hour, 40 minutes and 2 hours, depending on if one has to transfer to an electric train to reach the city. In 2019, the LIRR completed an extensive renovation of the station building, restoring it to its prototypical appearance at the turn of the twentieth century. New signage, station artwork, and brick-paver walkways were also installed.


Station layout

This station has one 10-car-long high-level
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north of the tracks. To the east of the station is the Port Jefferson Yard, which provides additional storage tracks.


Gallery

File:PJSta2.jpg, Parking lot and station building, as seen in 1999. File:PJSta4.jpg, 2007 image of station after the 2001 restoration project. File:PJSta3.JPG, One of the signs at the station to complement the station name sign, showing the connection to the ferry to Bridgeport.


References


External links


Old Port Jefferson Station Photo (Newsday)Bridgeport - Port Jefferson Ferry website
*TrainsAreFun.com

** ttp://trainsarefun.com/lirr/lirr%20freight/freight%20photos/elboxcarPJ78.jpg Erie-Lackawanna boxcar @ Port Jefferson Station (1978)
Train #161 about to cross Main Street (August, 1979)



Station from Main Street from Google Maps Street View
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