Setauket (LIRR station)

Setauket
The site of the former Setauket Railroad Station in 2010.
Location	Gnarled Hollow Road Setauket, New York
Coordinates	40°55′55″N 73°05′55″W / 40.931979°N 73.098607°WCoordinates: 40°55′55″N 73°05′55″W / 40.931979°N 73.098607°W
Owned by	LIRR
Line(s)	Port Jefferson Branch
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	2
Other information
Station code	None
Fare zone	10
History
Opened	1873
Closed	1980
Services
None Preceding station   LIRR   Following station Stony Brook station Port Jefferson Branch (current and former locations) Port Jefferson station

Setauket was a station stop along the Port Jefferson Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. The station was established by the Smithtown and Port Jefferson Railroad (a Long Island Rail Road subsidiary) in July 1873,^[1] marked by a sand bank. In February 1877, a new freight deport was built. No depot appears to have been built until January-February 1883.^[2] This depot was razed on October 3, 1960. It was discontinued as a stop around 1980.^[3][4]

Setauket station was located between the Stony Brook and Port Jefferson Stations on the north side of the tracks just east of the bridge where Gnarled Hollow Road passes under the tracks in Setauket.^[1] Access to the station was through a driveway which empted onto Gnarled Hollow Road just north of the bridge on the east side of the road. Today the site, across the tracks from the current location of the All-Flags & Flagpoles company (formerly the site of the American Flagpole Factory^[1]), is occupied by pole-tech.

References

1. The Three Village Historical Society (2005). The Setaukets, Old Field, and Poquott. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing. p. 89. ISBN 0-7385-3866-3. Retrieved 2011-11-23.
2. Seyfried, Vincent F. (1966). The Long Island Rail Road: The age of expansion, 1863-1880.
3. LIRR Station History (TrainsAreFun.com)
4. Hagstroms Western Suffolk County Road Atlas (1941)

External links

• 1959 Art Huneke Photo (TrainsAreFun.com)