Bay Shore (LIRR station)

Infobox Station
name=Bay Shore
style=LIRR


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image_caption=Looking west at Bay Shore Station's two station houses
address=Railroad Plaza @ Park Avenue & Oak Street
Bay Shore, New York
line=rail color box|system=LIRR|line=Montauk
other=Suffolk County Transit
David Brothers Taxi
platform=2
tracks=2
parking=Yes; Free
bicycle=
baggage_check=
passengers=
pass_year=
pass_percent=
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opened=1868
closed=
rebuilt=1882, 1912
ADA=yes
code=
owned=MTA
zone=10
former=Pentaquit
Bayshore
services=
mpassengers=

Bay Shore is a major railroad station along the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR). It is located on Park Avenue and Oak Street north of Suffolk CR 50 (Union Boulevard) and west of Fourth Avenue, in Bay Shore, New York.

Bay Shore Station was built by the South Side Railroad of Long Island in 1868, was replaced in 1882, and replaced again on July 17 1912. The entrance to the station once had decorative pillars on the sides [ [Images of Rail; Long Island Rail Road Stations, by David D. Morrison & Valerie Pakaluk (p. 92)] ] , and a railroad hotel once existed behind the station plaza. [ [http://trainsarefun.com/lirr/lirrtracksidebusiness/lirrtracksidebusiness.htm LIRR Trackside Business Photos] ] It is one of the few stations on the LIRR with two station buildings. The larger building is for the westbound platform and the smaller one is for the eastbound platform. An underground pedestrian tunnel exists between the two station houses.

Connections

*Suffolk County Transit: S40, S41, S42, S45, S2A and S2B
*Local taxi service
*Fire Island passenger ferries to Ocean Beach, Kismet, Fair Harbor, Saltaire, and Ocean Bay Park.

References

External links

* [http://lirr42.mta.info/stationinfo.asp?station=119 Official MTA-LIRR Bay Shore Station website]
* [http://arrts-arrchives.com/ssrrbayshore.html Old Bay Shore Station (Arrt's Arrchives)]
*Trains Are Fun.com
** [http://trainsarefun.com/lirr/bay%20shore/bay%20shore.htm Bay Shore Station (Steve Lynch's LIRR maps, photos and charts)]
** [http://www.trainsarefun.com/lirr/yards/bshorefreightyard78.jpgBay Shore Freight Yard (1978)]
*Unofficial LIRR website
** [http://www.lirrhistory.com/feb2000/bayshrw.jpgWestbound] and [http://www.lirrhistory.com/feb2000/bayshre.jpgEastbound station houses (February 2000)]
** [http://www.lirrhistory.com/may2007/bayshore06.jpgSecond station house with underpass sign (May 2007)]
** [http://www.lirrhistory.com/may2007/bayshore18.jpgPedestrian underpass] and [http://www.lirrhistory.com/may2007/bayshore14.jpgodd clock (May 2007)]
*Geolinks-US-buildingscale|40.725049|-73.253057
*Unofficial LIRR Photography site (lirrpics.com)
** [http://www.lirrpics.com/bay_shore_station.htm Bay Shore Station]

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