Oakdale station
40°44′36″N 73°07′57″W / 40.7434°N 73.1324°W / 40.7434; -73.1324
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Great River toward Penn Station or Long Island City | Montauk Branch | Sayville toward Montauk |
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Oakdale is a railroad station on the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, on the corner of Oakdale-Bohemia Road and Montauk Boulevard in view of Montauk Highway across Norman DeMott Park, in Oakdale, New York.
History
Oakdale station was originally built as a depot by the South Side Railroad of Long Island in 1868, and was larger than most SSRRLI depots.[2] It was razed in 1890 and a second station built in December of that year. Legend has it that the station was rebuilt in order to be suitable for guests arriving at the wedding of Consuelo Vanderbilt.[3] As a result, the station is often referred to as "the wedding station." On December 10, 1994, the station lived up to its given nickname by hosting an actual wedding in front of the fireplace in the waiting room.[4] Oakdale station also included carriage stables and a freight house that was active until the 1970s. Today this freight house is a storage facility for the Long Island Rail Road. The carriage stables were demolished at some point. High-level platforms were added in the late-1990s.
Station layout
The station has two high-level side platforms, each four cars long.
Notable Places Nearby
References
- ^ "2012-2014 LIRR Origin and Destination Report : Volume I: Travel Behavior Among All LIRR Passengers" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. August 23, 2016. PDF pp. 15, 199. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 17, 2019. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
Data collection took place after the pretest determinations, starting in September 2012 and concluding in May 2014. .... 2012-2014 LIRR O[rigin and ]D[estination] COUNTS: WEEKDAY East/West Total By Station in Numerical Order ... Oakdale
- ^ Original Oakdale Station (Arrt's Arrchives)
- ^ Dowling College; The Estate and Environs (Oakdale Railroad Station)
- ^ Morrison, David D.; Pakaluk, Valerie (2003). Long Island Rail Road Stations. Images of Rail. Chicago: Arcadia Publishing. p. 95. ISBN 0-7385-1180-3. Retrieved November 25, 2011.
External links
Media related to Oakdale (LIRR station) at Wikimedia Commons
- Oakdale – LIRR
- Oakdale LIRR timetable
- Train #272 @ Oakdale Station (TrainsAreFun.com)
- Oakdale Freight House (1971 Photo; Unofficial LIRR Website)[usurped]
- YouTube Videos
- Eastbound and Westbound Double-Decker Trains at Oakdale
- Oakdale Station History (TrainsAreFun.com)
- Unofficial LIRR Photography Site (lirrpics.com)
- Oakdale Station
- Station from Oakdale-Bohemia Road from Google Maps Street View
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Italics denote closed (or not-yet-opened) stations and line segments.