Copiague
The entrance to the Copiague station.
General information
LocationMarconi Boulevard & Great Neck Road (County Road 47)
Copiague, New York
Coordinates40°40′52″N 73°23′56″W / 40.681°N 73.399°W / 40.681; -73.399
Owned byLong Island Rail Road
Line(s)Montauk Branch
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
Construction
Parking747 spaces
Bicycle facilitiesYes
AccessibleNo; accessibility planned.
Other information
Fare zone9
History
Opened1902
Rebuilt1967–1973
ElectrifiedMay 20, 1925
750 V (DC) third rail
Passengers
2012—20142,629[1]
Rank41 of 125
Services
Preceding station Long Island Rail Road Following station
Amityville
toward Penn Station, Grand Central or Atlantic Terminal
 Babylon Branch Lindenhurst
toward Babylon
     Montauk Branch does not stop here
Former services
Preceding station Long Island
Rail Road 		Following station
Amityville
toward Long Island City
 Montauk Division Lindenhurst
toward Montauk

Copiague is a station on the Babylon Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, located in Copiague, New York. The station is located on Marconi Boulevard and Great Neck Road (Suffolk County Road 47), one block north of Oak Street (Suffolk County Road 12).

History

Original station

The South Side Railroad of Long Island and Central Railroad of Long Island once had another station in Copiague to the east called Belmont Junction, which was in service between 1873 and 1885.[2] It is not known if the Long Island Rail Road built Copiague Station as a replacement for Belmont Junction, but it had served as one.[3][4][5]

Current station

Copiague Station was originally built in 1902, and was rebuilt with temporary high-level platforms for the M1s on October 25, 1968. The original station was replaced with the current elevated station which opened on August 7, 1973. It is one of the few railroad stations along the Babylon Branch west of Patchogue that was not originally built by the South Side Railroad of Long Island. Starting in late 2023, along with Lindenhurst, Amityville, and Massapequa Park, work will begin to add an elevator and make other improvements to make the station ADA-compliant.

Station layout

The station has one 10-car-long high-level island platform between the two tracks.

References

  1. ^ "2012-2014 LIRR Origin and Destination Report : Volume I: Travel Behavior Among All LIRR Passengers" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. August 23, 2016. PDF pp. 15, 197. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 17, 2019. Retrieved March 29, 2020. Data collection took place after the pretest determinations, starting in September 2012 and concluding in May 2014. .... 2012-2014 LIRR O[rigin and ]D[estination] COUNTS: WEEKDAY East/West Total By Station in Numerical Order
  2. ^ Babylon/Montauk Branch Stations (Unofficial LIRR History Website)[usurped]
  3. ^ "ELECTRIFICATION OF MONTAUK DIVISION NEARLY COMPLETED". The Long Island News and the Owl (1925/03/26). Rockville Centre, New York: 3. March 26, 1925. Aside from a short gap at each sub-station, the transmission line has been completed, including poles and wires, from Lynbrook to Belmont Junction, west of Babylon. ... All steam trains now operated without stops between Jamaica and Babylon and points east thereof, will be run over the old Central Railroad via Belmont Junction, Bethpage Junction, Hicksville and the Main Line to and from Jamaica.
  4. ^ Edwards, Everett J. (October 24, 1935). "TRAIN SERVICE IMPROVES ON L. I. SINCE YEAR 1925". The East Hampton Star. L, No. 52 (1935/10/24). East Hampton, New York: 25, col. 6. The year 1925 marked the opening of the Central Branch Extension, connecting the Main line from Bethpage Junction, Farmingdale, with the Montauk Branch at Belmont Junction, Babylon. The operation of trains over this extension saved even more time, and the railroad company was enabled to send all its through trains on the South Shore via that route, resulting in a reduction of three or four minutes in the running time of these trains.
  5. ^ "RAILROAD NEWS". The Sun (1888/06/22). New York: 7. June 22, 1888. ISSN 1940-7831. The Belmont Junction, one mile this side of Babylon, on the Central extension of the Long Island road, will be removed and the extension will have a separate track into Babylon. This will do away with switching on to the Mantawk[sic] division, and Montawk trains will not have to pull up. The Improvement will be completed in about two weeks.

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