Bellerose station

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.

The station entrance from the parking lot, located on the north side of the tracks.
Bellerose
Bellerose LIRR station along Atlantic Avenue across from the intersection with Walnut Avenue.
LocationCommonwealth Boulevard & Superior Road
Floral Park, NY/Bellerose, NY
Coordinates40.7221°N 73.7166°W / 40.7221; -73.7166
Owned byLong Island Rail Road
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks4 (2 for the Hempstead Branch, and 2 for the Main Line)
ConnectionsNew York City Bus: Q36 (at Jericho Turnpike)
Nassau Inter-County Express: n24 (at Jericho Turnpike)
Construction
ParkingYes
Other information
Fare zone4
History
Opened1898
Rebuilt1909, 1960–1961
Electrified750 V (DC) third rail
Passengers
2006951[1]
Services
Preceding station LIRR Following station
Queens Village
towards Jamaica, Atlantic Terminal or Penn Station
 Hempstead Branch Floral Park
towards Hempstead
     Port Jefferson Branch does not stop here
     Ronkonkoma Branch does not stop here
     Oyster Bay Branch does not stop here
     Montauk Branch does not stop here
Other services
Preceding station LIRR Following station
Future services
Elmont
towards Jamaica, Atlantic Terminal or Penn Station
 Hempstead Branch Floral Park
towards Hempstead
Preceding station Long Island
Rail Road		 Following station
Former services
Queens Village
toward Long Island City or Penn Station
 Main Line Floral Park
toward Greenport

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
  1. Average weekday, 2006 LIRR Origin and Destination Study
  2. The Long Island Railroad Twenty-Seventh Annual Report For The Year Ending December 31st, 1908. Long Island Railroad Company. 1909.
  3. LIRR station history (TrainsAreFun.com) Archived January 6, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
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