Copiague | ||||||||||||||||
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The entrance to the Copiague station.
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| Location | Marconi Boulevard & Great Neck Road (CR 47) Copiague, New York | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°40′52″N 73°23′56″W / 40.681°N 73.399°W / 40.681; -73.399 | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Long Island Rail Road | |||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Montauk Branch | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1island platform | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Construction | ||||||||||||||||
| Parking | 747 spaces | |||||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Yes | |||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | |||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 9 | |||||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||||
| Opened | 1902 | |||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1967–1973 | |||||||||||||||
| Electrified | May 20, 1925 750 V (DC) third rail | |||||||||||||||
| Passengers | ||||||||||||||||
| 2012—2014 | 2,629[1] | |||||||||||||||
| Rank | 41 of 125 | |||||||||||||||
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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 Route 47), one block north of Oak Street (Suffolk County Route 12).
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]
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.
On May 16, 2024, Copiague Station was made fully accessible, with an elevator that will carry handicapped commuters from the street to the platform being installed. This project brought the station into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.[6]
The station has one 10-car-long high-level island platform between the two tracks.
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
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.
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.
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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