Port Washington is the
terminus of the
Long Island Rail Road's
Port Washington Branch
The Port Washington Branch is an electrified two-track rail line and service owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in the U.S. state of New York. It branches north from the Main Line at the former Winfield Junction station, just ...
in
Port Washington,
New York
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. The station is located on Main Street, between Haven Avenue and South Bayles Avenue, just west of
Port Washington Boulevard (NY 101), and is 19.9 miles (32 km) from
Pennsylvania Station in
Midtown Manhattan
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. A pedestrian bridge exists between the platforms, and is in line with Franklin Avenue, ending at Haven Avenue.
History
A Port Washington station was recommended to
Austin Corbin by a group of Port Washington residents in 1895, after a failed attempt to extend the branch between
Great Neck and
Roslyn in 1882. Efforts to bring rail service to the community actually date back to the days of the
Flushing and North Side Railroad which established an unbuilt subsidiary called the "North Shore and Port Washington Railroad" that was dissolved once the F&NS was consolidated into the
Flushing, North Shore and Central Railroad in 1874. The station was originally built on June 23, 1898 by the
Great Neck and Port Washington Railroad, an LIRR subsidiary that existed between 1898 and 1902. It was electrified in 1913, and remodeled in 1930, and again in 1998 upon the station's 100th Anniversary.
Station layout
This station has two 10-car long
island platform
An island platform (also center platform, centre platform) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange. Island platforms are popular ...
s serving four tracks. The remaining tracks make up the Port Washington Yard and are used for train storage. In order to allow for increased service via the line to
Grand Central Terminal
Grand Central Terminal (GCT; also referred to as Grand Central Station or simply as Grand Central) is a commuter rail terminal located at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Grand Central is the southern termi ...
once
East Side Access
East Side Access (ESA) is a public works project in New York City that extended the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) from its Main Line in Queens into a new station under Grand Central Terminal on Manhattan's East Side. A project of the Metropoli ...
is completed, two existing tracks in the yard will be extended to accommodate two additional ten-car trains. Work began in January 2018, and was scheduled to be completed by December 2020.
References
External links
*Unofficial LIRR History Website Photos
July 1999 Photo**December 2006 Photos
*
Tracks 4 & 3and
Station House from the end of the platforms*
Station House and Bicycle Racksnear the
Historic Port Washington Directory*
Franklin Avenue pedestrian bridge over storage tracks*
View of Willowdale Avenue Bridge*
Station view fromPedestrian Bridges between PlatformsStation House from Google Maps Street ViewPlatforms from Google Maps Street ViewWaiting Room from Google Maps Street View
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Long Island Rail Road stations in Nassau County, New York
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1898