Southampton Campus station

Southampton College
Location Tuckahoe Road
Shinnecock Hills, New York
Coordinates 40°53′27.6″N 72°26′26.7″W / 40.891000°N 72.440750°W / 40.891000; -72.440750Coordinates: 40°53′27.6″N 72°26′26.7″W / 40.891000°N 72.440750°W / 40.891000; -72.440750
Owned by Long Island Rail Road
Line(s)
  Montauk Branch
Platforms 1 side platform
Tracks 1
Other information
Station code None
Fare zone 14
History
Opened 1907, 1976
Closed 1939, 1998
Previous names Golf Grounds (1907–1939)
Services
None
Preceding station   LIRR   Following station
Former services
Shinnecock Hills   Montauk Branch   Southampton

Southampton Campus was a rail station located along the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. Originally as a seasonal flag stop called Golf Grounds, it opened April 1907 to serve sites such as the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club and National Golf Links of America and was closed in 1939.[1] This station will be temporarily reopened in summer 2018 to accommodate visitors to the 2018 U.S. Open Golf Championship under the name Shinnecock Hills.

In order to serve the Long Island University's Southampton College (now owned by Stony Brook University) it reopened on May 24, 1976. It was discontinued as a station stop and removed on March 16, 1998 due to low usage, along with a handful of other Long Island Rail Road stations.[2] The station only had an average daily ridership of 16 and the low ridership did not make it cost effective for high level platforms to be installed to accommodate new bilevel rail cars.[3]

A temporary station was opened in June 2004 for the U.S. Open and was listed as Shinnecock Hills on special timetables.[4] The Long Island Rail Road also provided service for spectators traveling to the 1986 U.S. Open, when the station was called Southampton College.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Zeil, Ron; Wettereau, Richard (1988). Victorian Railroad Stations of Long Island. Bridgehampton: Sunrise Special. p. 103. OCLC 19319353.
  2. ↑ Sengupta, Somini (March 15, 1998). "End of the Line for L.I.R.R.'s 10 Loneliest Stops". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
  3. ↑ "End of the Road". The East Hampton Star. March 26, 1998. Retrieved 2010-01-31.
  4. ↑ Tyrrell, Joie; Freedman, Mitchell (March 25, 2004). "Town, LIRR, USGA Plans, Handling the Open Crowds". Newsday. p. A.19.
  5. ↑ "The 1986 U.S. Open and the Long Island Rail Road". arrts-arrchives.com. Retrieved 2010-01-31.



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