Sag Harbor Branch

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History

The line was conceived and surveyed in 1854. In 1869 LIRR president Oliver Charlick wanted the branch to head off plans by the South Side Railroad to extend their line beyond Patchogue. The original plans called for the branch to leave the Main Line at Riverhead. But Riverhead refused to pay the LIRR for the benefits of being at a junction, so the west end was moved to Manorville in the pine barrens in 1869. During construction the Quogue station "on a Sunday morning" was moved by the village from its original and current location to a location on Old Depot Road.

The Sag Harbor Line remained the farthest point on the LIRR's south shore line until 1895 when the LIRR extended the road at Bridgehampton to Montauk leaving the Sag Harbor section a spur of the Montauk Line. During World War I, a freight spur was built onto the newly reinforced Long Wharf in Sag Harbor to deliver torpedoes for the E.W. Bliss Company for testing in the harbor. belly dance belt

The Sag Harbor branch was abandoned in 1940. A former section of the line in Sag Harbor known as Wharf Street has been designated Suffolk County Road 81 and runs from NY 114 to the Sag Harbor Pier. The rest of the road bed was transformed into the Long Pond Greenbelt. The road bed is now a hiking trail. The freight house at the Sag Harbor train station is now the Sag Harbor Garden Center. belly dancing scarf

Manorville Branch belly dance belts

The Manorville Branch was a segment of the Sag Harbor Branch, running from Manorville on the Main Line southeast to Eastport on the Montauk Branch, which eventually became its own branch. A small portion of the right of way runs through what is today the Long Island Game Farm, while another segment runs through a Town of Brookhaven compost facility. In Eastport, the line ran beneath a bridge under Suffolk CR 51, which no longer exists, then along the north end of Spadaro Airport, before merging with the Montauk Branch. It even contained a wye for westbound Montauk Branch trains that went over Montauk Highway until 1931.

The Manorville Branch was abandoned in 1949. In the 1950s, Suffolk County Department of Public Works planned to transform the former branch into a four-lane highway called Suffolk County Road 91 (Manorville Branch Road), but this proposal was abandoned on June 24, 1986, and as with the Long Pond Greenbelt, this road bed is also now a hiking trail.

List of stations

Besides the existing and former stations along the current Montauk Branch, stations along the line included the following;

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Station/

location

Station

link

Miles (kilometers)

to Penn Station

Connections/notes

For continuing service to points west, see Main Line (Long Island Rail Road)

Manorville

Raynor Road, Manorville

Branch abanodned 1949, station closed in 1968.

Eastport

Main Street and East Moriches Road, Eastport

Closed 1959

Manorville Branch ends, merges with Montauk Branch

Speonk

North Phillips Avenue at Depot Road, Speonk

Westhampton

Station Road and Depot Road, Westhampton

Bus (Suffolk County Transit): S90

Quogue

Station Road off of Quogue-Riverhead Road, Quogue

Opened June 1875, Closed March 16, 1998

East Quogue

Opened 1871, Closed unknown

Hampton Bays

Good Ground Road, between Springville Road and Ponoquogue Avenue, Hamton Bays

Bus (Suffolk County Transit): S90, S10D, S10E

Canoe Place

Opened 1935, Closed 1953

Suffolk Downs

Opened 1907, Closed 1921

Golf Grounds

Opened 1907, Closed 1939

Southampton

North Main Street, between Prospect Street and Willow Street, Southampton

Bus (Suffolk County Transit): S92, 10A

Water Mill

Opened 1875, Closed circa 1968

Bridgehampton

Maple Lane and Butter Lane, Bridgehampton

Bus (Suffolk County Transit): S92, 10B

Montauk Branch continues east to Montauk, Sag Harbor Branch which was abaondoned in 1940

Noyack Road

Sag Harbor

1906-1940; also known as Lamb's Corner Station

Sag Harbor

Main Street & South Ferry Road, Sag Harbor

1870-1940

References

^ Ron Ziel and George H. Foster, Steel Rails to the Sunrise, 1965

^ Sag Harbor Branch (Unofficial LIRR History web site)

^ a b NYCRoads.com - Suffolk CR 76-100

^ Suffolk County Department of Public Works

^ Sag Harbor Branch; Part Three (Arrt's Arrchives)

^ Sag Harbor Branch; Part Four (Arrt's Arrchives)

External links

Maps and Photos by Bob Emery, Dave Keller, and Steve Lynch (TrainsAreFun.com)

Sag Harbor Branch; Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four and Part Five (Arrt's Arrchives)

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