Port Washington is the terminus of the Long Island Rail Road's Port Washington Branch in Port Washington, New York. The station is located on Main Street, between Haven Avenue and South Bayles Avenue, just West of Middle Neck Road, and is 19.9 miles (32Â km) from Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan. Pedestrian bridges between the platforms are in line with Franklin Avenue and Bayview Avenue, both of which end Haven Avenue.
History
Port Washington station was recommended to Austin Corbin by a group of Port Washington residents in 1895, after a failed attempt to extend the branch between Great Neck and Roslyn in 1882. Efforts to bring rail service to the community actually date back to the days of the Flushing and North Side Railroad which established an unbuilt subsidiary called the "North Shore and Port Washington Railroad" that was dissolved once the F&NS was consolidated into the Flushing, North Shore and Central Railroad in 1874. The station was originally built on June 23, 1898 by the Great Neck and Port Washington Railroad, an LIRR subsidiary that existed between 1898 and 1902. It was electrified in 1913, and remodeled in 1930, and again in 1998 upon the station's 100th Anniversary.
Station layout
This station has two 10-car long island platforms. Tracks 1, 6, 7 and 8, known as Port Washington Yard, are not adjacent to the platforms, and are used for train storage. In order to allow for increased service via the line to Grand Central once East Side Access is completed, two existing tracks in the yard will be extended to accommodate two additional ten-car trains. Work will begin in January 2018, and will be completed in December 2020.
References
External links
Media related to Port Washington (LIRR station) at Wikimedia Commons
- Official LIRR station information page for Port Washington
- Station timetable for Port Washington
- Unofficial LIRR History Website Photos
- July 1999 Photo
- December 2006 Photos
- Tracks 4 & 3 and Station House from the end of the platforms
- Station House and Bicycle Racks near the Historic Port Washington Directory
- Franklin Avenue pedestrian bridge over storage tracks
- View of Willowdale Avenue Bridge
- Station view from Pedestrian Bridges between Platforms
- Port Washington Yard Reconfiguration (The LIRR Today)
- Station House from Google Maps Street View
- Platforms from Google Maps Street View
- Waiting Room from Google Maps Street View
