Bellerose station

Bellerose
Bellerose LIRR station along Atlantic Avenue across from the intersection with Walnut Avenue.
Location Commonwealth Boulevard & Superior Road
Floral Park, NY
Coordinates 40°43′20″N 73°43′00″W / 40.7221°N 73.7166°W / 40.7221; -73.7166Coordinates: 40°43′20″N 73°43′00″W / 40.7221°N 73.7166°W / 40.7221; -73.7166
Owned by Long Island Rail Road
Line(s)
  Hempstead Branch
Platforms 1 island platform
Tracks 2 (Hempstead Branch), 2 (Main Line)
Construction
Parking Yes
Other information
Fare zone 4
History
Opened 1898
Rebuilt 1909, 1960–1961
Electrified 750 V (DC) third rail
Traffic
Passengers (2006) 951[1]
Services
Preceding station   LIRR   Following station
Hempstead Branch
toward Hempstead

Bellerose is a station along the Main Line of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) which only serves trains along the Hempstead Branch. 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.

History

Bellerose station was originally built in 1898 and rebuilt in the summer of 1909.[2]:19 It was out of service between December 12–15, 1960, and replaced with a third station between 1960 and 1961.[3] 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, but local taxis do stop here.

Station layout

The station has one eight-car-long high-level island platform that serves the Hempstead Branch. The two parallel Main Line tracks that bypass this station are used by on the Oyster Bay Branch, Ronkonkoma Branch, Port Jefferson Branch, and Montauk Branch.

G Ground level Entrance/exit and buses
P
Platform level		 Bypass
tracks		 ← Ronkonkoma Branch, Port Jefferson Branch, Oyster Bay Branch, Montauk Branch do not stop here
Ronkonkoma Branch, Port Jefferson Branch, Oyster Bay Branch, Montauk Branch do not stop here →
Track 1 ← Hempstead Branch toward Long Island City, Atlantic or Penn Station (Queens Village)
Island platform, doors will open on the left
Track 2 Hempstead Branch toward Hempstead (Floral Park) →

References

  1. ↑ Average weekday, 2006 LIRR Origin and Destination Study
  2. ↑ The Long Island Railroad Twenty-Seventh Annual Report For The Year Ending December 31st, 1908. Long Island Railroad Company. 1909.
  3. ↑ LIRR station history (TrainsAreFun.com) Archived January 6, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
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