Sayville station

Sayville
Sayville
	The view facing east of the tracks, platform and pedestrian bridge taken from where the tracks cross Lakeland Avenue
Location	Depot Street & Greeley Avenue; Sayville, New York
Coordinates	40°44′25″N 73°05′11″W / 40.740388°N 73.086497°WCoordinates: 40°44′25″N 73°05′11″W / 40.740388°N 73.086497°W
Owned by	Long Island Rail Road
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Construction
Parking	Yes (free)
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	10
History
Opened	1868 (SSRRLI)
Rebuilt	1906, 1999
Passengers
2012—2014	1,078
Rank	75 of 125
Services
Former services

Sayville is a station on the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Rail Road in the village of Sayville, New York, on Depot Street between Greeley Avenue and Railroad Avenue. Ferries to Fire Island board from a port south of the station.^[3]

History[]

Sayville station was originally built by the South Side Railroad of Long Island in December 1868, and was the end of the line until April 1869 when the line was extended to Patchogue. From that point until the early 20th century, the station also served as the local post office. At the time, it contained coal sidings, spurs into lumber yards, a freight house west of Greely Avenue, a dairy farm, and even a horse trolley to the Great South Bay owned by the South Shore Traction Company.^[4] The horse trolley was eventually converted into an electric trolley line after being acquired by the Suffolk Traction Company. In November 1905, mail that was delivered to the railroad station was blown out of its pouch by a speeding train and scattered under the tracks and was searched by the postmaster along "half a mile of track."^[5] The original station was razed sometime in 1906 and a second depot opened on August 3 that year. When Bayport station was closed by the Long Island Rail Road in 1980, former Bayport commuters opted to use Sayville station. A renovation project took place sometime in 1998-1999. It brought the current pedestrian overpass and sheltered high-level platforms.

Station layout[]

The station has two high-level side platforms each eight cars long. The Montauk Branch has two tracks here, the last such station on the line; all stations from Patchogue east to Montauk have only a single platform, as the double track becomes single track between Sayville and the former Bayport station.

Platform A, side platform
Track 1	← Montauk Branch toward Jamaica, Long Island City, or Penn Station (Oakdale)
Track 2	← Montauk Branch toward Patchogue, Speonk, or Montauk (Patchogue) →
Platform B, side platform

References[]

^ Vincent F. Seyfried, The Long Island Rail Road: A Comprehensive History, Part One: South Side R.R. of L.I., 1961
^ "2012-2014 LIRR Origin and Destination Report : Volume I: Travel Behavior Among All LIRR Passengers" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 23 August 2016. PDF pp. 15, 198. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 July 2019. Retrieved 29 March 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 ... Sayville
^ "Life's a Beach on Long Island; The MTA LIRR is the "Greenest Way" to a Summer in Blue Ocean and White Sand Luxury". MTA. June 15, 2010. Retrieved June 29, 2018.
^ "Sayville LIRR". trainsarefun.com. Retrieved June 29, 2018.
^ Connie Currie (July 3, 2009). "The Sayville Post Office". sayville.com. Archived from the original on February 29, 2012. Retrieved February 10, 2012.