BETHPAGE (LIRR STATION)

'Bethpage Station' or 'Bethpage Junction' is a station along the Main Line of the Long Island Railroad. It is located at Stewart Avenue and Jackson Avenue, in Bethpage, New York, and serves both the Ronkonkoma Branch, and the Central Branch.
Bethpage Station was originally built in 1884 as "Central Park Station," northwest of the 'Central Railroad of Long Island's' Bethpage Station. It was renamed as "Bethpage Junction" on October 1, 1936. The station was burned down and replaced in 1959.
The Central Branch splits from the Main Line at Beth Interlocking one mile southeast of the station on the Branch's way to Babylon Station and the Montauk Branch. However, the Bethpage Station was also the former southern terminus of the Bethpage Branch, and the former segment of the Central Branch between Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum until the 1940s. The LIRR built the B-Tower at Beth Interlocking in 1925 to replace hand-operated switching between the tracks.

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Connections

★ MTA Long Island Bus; N81

★ Local Taxi Service

External links

★ Official MTA-LIRR Bethpage Station Website

★ Unofficial LIRR History Website

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★ Central Branch History

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★ Bethpage Station (1990s)

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★ B-Tower; 1986 and July 1993

★ Bethpage Junction History (Arrt's Arrchives)

★ Trains Are Fun

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★ May 11, 1947 and 1952 Photos

★ NYCSubways.org

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★ April 24, 1966 and September 1974 Photos

★ Maps and aerial photos

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★ Hybrid satellite image/street map from WikiMapia