Bellerose (LIRR station)
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| Address | Commonwealth Boulevard & Superior Road Bellerose, New York |
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| Coordinates | 40°43′20″N 73°43′00″W / 40.7221°N 73.7166°WCoordinates: 40°43′20″N 73°43′00″W / 40.7221°N 73.7166°W | ||||||||||
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| Connections | Triple "A" Taxi | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 4 | ||||||||||
| Parking | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 1898 | ||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1909, 1960-61 | ||||||||||
| Electrified | 750V (DC) third rail | ||||||||||
| Owned by | MTA | ||||||||||
| Fare zone | 4 | ||||||||||
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| Passengers (2006) | 951[1] | ||||||||||
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Ticket Machines; automated teller machines
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Bellerose is a station along the Main Line of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR); only trains to/from the Hempstead Branch stop. The station is at Commonwealth Boulevard and Superior Road, 0.25 miles (0.40 km) south of Jericho Turnpike, in Bellerose, New York, and has a full-service ticket machine on the north side of the station, next to the underpass entrance and a daily machine on the south side next to the underpass entrance. The station serves the area around the village of Bellerose in Nassau County and the adjacent neighborhood of Bellerose, Queens in New York City.
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[edit] History
Bellerose station was originally built in 1898 and rebuilt in the summer of 1909. It was out of service between December 12–15, 1960, and replaced with a third station between 1960 and 1961.[2] Until 1960, the station had a platform on each side of the four-track Main Line, though almost all trains that stopped ran to and from Hempstead. As part of the grade crossing elimination the junction of Main Line and Hempstead Branch was moved west of Bellerose. The two lines remain closely parallel between Jamaica and Floral Park. The platform was placed between the two Hempstead Branch tracks. No buses stop at the station.
[edit] Platform and tracks
The station has one eight-car-long high-level island platform between Tracks 1 and 2 of the Hempstead Branch. Two parallel Main Line tracks to the north are not next to this platform, so trains to or from Oyster Bay, Ronkonkoma, Huntington or Montauk cannot stop at this station.
[edit] References
- ^ Average weekday, 2006 LIRR Origin and Destination Study
- ^ LIRR station history (TrainsAreFun.com)
