Montauk station

Montauk
Montauk
	The former Montauk Station house, now the Depot Art Gallery (2013)
Location	Edgemere Street & Fort Pond Road; Montauk, New York
Coordinates	41°02′48″N 71°57′16″W / 41.046793°N 71.954452°WCoordinates: 41°02′48″N 71°57′16″W / 41.046793°N 71.954452°W
Owned by	Long Island Rail Road
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	7
Connections	Suffolk County Transit: 10C
Construction
Parking	Yes (free)
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	14
History
Opened	1895
Rebuilt	1907, 1927, 1942, 2001
Passengers
2012—2014	55
Rank	116 of 125
Services
Former services

Montauk is the terminus of the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, as well as the easternmost railroad station on Long Island and in New York state. The station is located on Edgemere Street (Suffolk County Route 49) and Fort Pond Road west of Montauk Harbor, New York.

History[]

The station depot and yard at Montauk in March 2017

Originally built in 1895 by the Brooklyn and Montauk Railroad, it was demolished in 1907, then rebuilt twenty years later, only to be relocated by the US Navy during World War II along with a great deal of Montauk itself. The Navy confiscated the property along Fort Pond Bay in order to transform it into a sea plane base, and moved the LIRR property to the south with a third station built in 1942. The station was built in a similar style to the second station, but not the same design. Both the second and third stations still survives to this day, and for a while the second one was owned by the New York Ocean Science Laboratory.^[2] Today the second station is on the property of the Roughrider Landing Condominiums. The third station house also contained a freight house that was moved to Industrial Road in the late-1960s, and is now a private residence.^[3]

The current and fourth Montauk station is an unoccupied high-level center platform for two of the seven tracks. The platform from the old station leads to the current station. A wye exists west of the station that leads to a short spur across Industrial Road to Fort Pond, and was used to turn around engines. It also once had another spur on the opposite side of the tracks leading to a fishing dock on Fort Pond Bay. The previous station house is now known as the Depot Art Gallery. Montauk Station was one of the settings for the 2004 movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind starring Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet.

The noise of train engines left idling for long periods in the Montauk Yard has been a recent cause of concern for local residents, who formed a group called the Montauk Anti-Pollution Coalition in 2003. The LIRR began shutting engines off in 2009.^[4]

Station layout[]

This station has one six-car-long high-level island platform. There are seven tracks at this location. The five southern tracks, not adjacent to the platform, comprise a train storage yard. When the LIRR provides extra service to the Hamptons during the summer, on weekends the yard is typically filled with passenger trains that terminate at Montauk, including the Friday afternoon Cannonball express train from Penn Station.

Track 1	← Montauk Branch limited service toward Jamaica, Long Island City, or Penn Station (Amagansett)
Island platform, doors will open on the left or right
Track 2	← Montauk Branch limited service toward Jamaica, Long Island City, or Penn Station (Amagansett)
Track 3	← Storage track
Track 4	← Storage track
Track 5	← Storage track
Track 6	← Storage track
Track 7	← Storage track

References[]

^ "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, 199. 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 ... Montauk
^ 1927 Montauk Station (Arrt's Arrchives)
^ Montauk Station History (TrainsAreFun.com)
^ Hewitt, Janis (September 10, 2009). "Ah, the Sound of Silence". The East Hampton Star. Retrieved January 31, 2010.^{[permanent dead link]}