Southampton Campus station

Southampton Campus was a rail station located along the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. Originally as a seasonal flag stop called Golf Grounds, it opened April 1907 to serve sites such as the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club and National Golf Links of America and was closed in 1938.[1]

Southampton College
LocationTuckahoe Road
Shinnecock Hills, New York
Coordinates40°53′27.6″N 72°26′26.7″W
Owned byLong Island Rail Road
Line(s)
  Montauk Branch
Platforms1 side platform
Tracks1
Other information
Station codeNone
Fare zone14
History
Opened1907, 1976
Closed1938,[1] 1998
Previous namesGolf Grounds (1907–1939)
Former services
Preceding station LIRR Following station
Shinnecock Hills
towards Long Island City
 Montauk Branch Southampton
towards Montauk

In order to serve the Long Island University's Southampton College (now owned by Stony Brook University) it reopened on May 24, 1976. It was discontinued as a station stop and removed on March 16, 1998 due to low usage, along with a handful of other Long Island Rail Road stations.[2] The station only had an average daily ridership of 16 and the low ridership did not make it cost effective for high level platforms to be installed to accommodate new bilevel rail cars.[3]

A temporary station was opened in June 2004 for the U.S. Open and was listed as Shinnecock Hills on special timetables.[4] The same situation occurred in 2018 during the 2018 U.S. Open Golf Championship. The Long Island Rail Road also provided service for spectators traveling to the 1986 U.S. Open, when the station was called Southampton College.[5]

References
  1. "3 R.R. Stations Closed". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. February 9, 1938. p. 7. Retrieved December 4, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. Sengupta, Somini (March 15, 1998). "End of the Line for L.I.R.R.'s 10 Loneliest Stops". The New York Times. Retrieved August 7, 2009.
  3. "End of the Road". The East Hampton Star. March 26, 1998. Retrieved January 31, 2010.
  4. Tyrrell, Joie; Freedman, Mitchell (March 25, 2004). "Town, LIRR, USGA Plans, Handling the Open Crowds". Newsday. p. A.19.
  5. "The 1986 U.S. Open and the Long Island Rail Road". arrts-arrchives.com. Retrieved January 31, 2010.


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