Sayville station
Sayville | |||||||||||
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 The view facing east of the tracks, platform and pedestrian bridge taken from where the tracks cross Lakeland Avenue | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | Depot Street & Greeley Avenue Sayville, New York | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°44′25″N 73°05′11″W / 40.740388°N 73.086497°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Long Island Rail Road | ||||||||||
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| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||
| Parking | Yes (free) | ||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Yes | ||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
| Other information | |||||||||||
| Fare zone | 10 | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 1868 (SSRRLI)[1] | ||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1906, 1999 | ||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||
| 2006 | 1,086[2] | ||||||||||
| Services | |||||||||||
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Sayville is a station on the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Rail Road in the village of Sayville, New York, on Depot Street between Greeley Avenue and Railroad Avenue. Ferries to Fire Island board from a port south of the station.[3]
History
Sayville station was originally built by the South Side Railroad of Long Island in December 1868, and was the end of the line until April 1869 when the line was extended to Patchogue. From that point until the early 20th century, the station also served as the local post office. At the time, it contained coal sidings, spurs into lumber yards, a freight house west of Greely Avenue, a dairy farm, and even a horse trolley to the Great South Bay owned by the South Shore Traction Company.[4] The horse trolley was eventually converted into an electric trolley line after being acquired by the Suffolk Traction Company. In November 1905, mail that was delivered to the railroad station was blown out of its pouch by a speeding train and scattered under the tracks and was searched by the postmaster along "half a mile of track."[5] The original station was razed sometime in 1906 and a second depot opened on August 3 that year. When Bayport station was closed by the Long Island Rail Road in 1980, former Bayport commuters opted to use Sayville station. A renovation project took place sometime in 1998-1999. It brought the current pedestrian overpass and sheltered high-level platforms.
Station layout
The station has two high-level side platforms each eight cars long. The Montauk Branch has two tracks here, the last such station on the line; all stations from Patchogue east to Montauk have only a single platform, as the double track becomes single track between Sayville and the former Bayport station.
| Ground/platform level Exit/entrance | |
Platform B, doors will open on the right 
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| Track 1 | ← Montauk Branch toward Jamaica or Penn Station (Oakdale) |
| Track 2 | Montauk Branch toward Patchogue, Speonk or Montauk (Patchogue) → |
| Platform A, doors will open on the right
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References
- ^ Vincent F. Seyfried, The Long Island Rail Road: A Comprehensive History, Part One: South Side R.R. of L.I., © 1961
- ^ Average weekday, 2006 LIRR Origin and Destination Study
- ^ "Life's a Beach on Long Island; The MTA LIRR is the "Greenest Way" to a Summer in Blue Ocean and White Sand Luxury". MTA. June 15, 2010. Retrieved June 29, 2018.
- ^ "Sayville LIRR". trainsarefun.com. Retrieved June 29, 2018.
- ^ Connie Currie (July 3, 2009). "The Sayville Post Office". sayville.com. Archived from the original on February 29, 2012. Retrieved February 10, 2012.
External links
Media related to Sayville (LIRR station) at Wikimedia Commons
- Sayville – LIRR
- Sayville LIRR timetable
- February 2000 Photo (Unofficial LIRR History Website)
- Sayville Station (South Shore Railroad of Long Island) (Arrt's Arrchives)
- Sayville Station (Sayville Library)
- 1999 Sayville Westbound Train (YouTube)
- Unofficial LIRR Photography Site (www.lirrpics.com)
- Station from Railroad Avenue from Google Maps Street View
