Locust Valley station

Locust Valley
Facing Oyster Bay-bound on the Jamaica-bound platform at Locust Valley in June 2012.
Location Birch Hill Road & Piping Rock Road
Locust Valley, NY
Coordinates 40°52′27″N 73°35′55″W / 40.874251°N 73.598678°W / 40.874251; -73.598678Coordinates: 40°52′27″N 73°35′55″W / 40.874251°N 73.598678°W / 40.874251; -73.598678
Owned by Long Island Rail Road
Line(s)
  Oyster Bay Branch
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 2
Connections Mid-Island Taxi
Construction
Parking Yes; Town of Oyster Bay Residency, Off-Peak and other
Bicycle facilities Yes
Disabled access Yes
Other information
Fare zone 7
History
Opened April 19, 1869
Rebuilt 1872, 1885, 1906
Traffic
Passengers (2006) 479[1]
Services
Preceding station   LIRR   Following station
Oyster Bay Branch
Terminus
Former services
Glen Cove   Oyster Bay Branch   Mill Neck

Locust Valley is a station along the Oyster Bay Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. It is located at Birch Hill Road and Piping Rock Road, south of Forest Avenue, Locust Valley, New York.

No bus access is available at the station; however, local taxicabs do stop.

History

The former Locust Tower at Locust Valley station

Locust Valley station was opened on April 19, 1869 and was the terminus of the line until 1889. On Aug. 22 the turntable and engine house was moved from Glen Street and installed here. Charles Hallet finished a depot here in Nov. 1872; photographed by Brainerd in 1878.[2]New station building erected 1909. It was rebuilt in November 1872, remodeled in 1885, and rebuilt again in December 1906, when the second station was moved to a private location.[3][4][5] When Mill Neck station was closed on March 16, 1998, Locust Valley became the last station before the end of the line. The station also contains an old-style wooden shelter on the eastbound tracks, and a former interlocking tower, known to the LIRR as Locust Tower that now serves as a Nassau County Police Department booth for the Second Precinct patrolmen assigned to the area.

Station layout

This station has two high-level side platforms, each four cars long. A siding just west of the station served the Nassau-Suffolk Lumber until the late 1970s. The Oyster Bay Branch becomes a single track line a few 100 feet beyond the Birch Hill Road crossing at LOCUST interlocking.

Ground/platform level
Entrance/exit and parking
Platform A, doors will open on the right
Track 1 ← Oyster Bay Branch toward Jamaica, Hunterspoint or Penn (Glen Cove)
Track 2 Oyster Bay Branch toward Oyster Bay (Terminus) →
Platform B, doors will open on the right

References

  1. ↑ Average weekday, 2006 LIRR Origin and Destination Study
  2. ↑ The Long Island Rail Road: The age of expansion, 1863-1880 Vincent Seyfried Page 203 Archived 2014-12-20 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ Existing Railroad Stations in Nassau County, New York
  4. ↑ 1872 Station House (Existing Railroad Stations in Nassau County, New York)
  5. ↑ 1906 Station House (Existing Railroad Stations in Nassau County, New York)
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