Hampton Bays (LIRR station)

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Hampton Bays

Station statistics

Address

Good Ground Road, between Springville Road and Ponoquogue Avenue
Hampton Bays, New York,

Lines

Montauk Branch

Connections

Suffolk County Transit
Hampton Coach

Platforms

Parking

Yes; Free

Bicycle facilities

Yes

Other information

Opened

1869 or 1871

Closed

1873, 1958

Rebuilt

1874, 1913, 1974, 2000-01

Accessible

Owned by

MTA

Fare zone

Formerly

Good Ground(1869-1922)

Hampton Bays is railroad station along the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. it is located on Good Ground Road, between Springville Road and Suffolk CR 32(Ponoquogue Avenue) in Hampton Bays, New York. Parking is free and entirley along Good Ground Road.

Hampton Bays Station was originally built in either 1869 or February 1871 as “Good Ground”, until June 1922, hence the name of the street its located on. The station was burned on November 4, 1873. The second station was opened on January 10, 1874, and closed in 1913, but used as an "express house" for the 3rd depot, which opened in the Summer 1913. The station house was closed in 1958, but remained a flag stop, then razed sometime around 1964. The station stop was moved 2,000 feet west on December 26, 1974. The relocated depot's high-level platforms were added between 2000-01.

When Quogue Station was closed on March 16, 1998, Hampton Bays was one of the two stations that was used to replace it. The other was Westhampton.