Bellerose | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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) Bellerose LIRR station along Atlantic Avenue across from the intersection with Walnut Avenue. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Commonwealth Boulevard & Superior Road Floral Park, NY/Bellerose, NY | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°43′20″N 73°43′00″W / 40.7221°N 73.7166°W | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Long Island Rail Road | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 4 (2 for the Hempstead Branch, and 2 for the Main Line) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Connections | New York City Bus: Q36 (at Jericho Turnpike) Nassau Inter-County Express: n24 (at Jericho Turnpike) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Parking | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1898 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1909, 1960–1961 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Electrified | 750 V (DC) third rail | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2006 | 951[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bellerose is a station along the Main Line of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) which only serves trains along the Hempstead Branch. The station is at Commonwealth Boulevard and Superior Road, 0.25 miles (0.40 km) south of Jericho Turnpike, in Floral Park, New York and Bellerose, New York and has a full-service ticket machine on the north side of the station, next to the underpass entrance and a daily machine on the south side next to the underpass entrance.
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History
Bellerose station was originally built in 1898 and rebuilt in the summer of 1909.[2]:19 It was out of service between December 12–15, 1960, and replaced with a third station between 1960 and 1961.[3] Until 1960, the station had a platform on each side of the four-track Main Line, though almost all trains that stopped ran to and from Hempstead. As part of the grade crossing elimination the junction of Main Line and Hempstead Branch was moved west of Bellerose. The two lines remain closely parallel between Jamaica and Floral Park. The platform was placed between the two Hempstead Branch tracks. The station is served by the Q36 and the n24 bus routes at Jericho Turnpike, and local taxis do stop here.
Station layout
The station has one eight-car-long high-level island platform that serves the Hempstead Branch. Port Jefferson, Ronkonkoma, Oyster Bay, and Montauk Branch trains pass through the station without stopping, using the Main Line tracks that parallel the Hempstead Branch just to the north.
References
- ^ Average weekday, 2006 LIRR Origin and Destination Study
- ^ The Long Island Railroad Twenty-Seventh Annual Report For The Year Ending December 31st, 1908. Long Island Railroad Company. 1909.
- ^ LIRR station history (TrainsAreFun.com) Archived January 6, 2011, at the Wayback Machine