Bellerose station


Bellerose is a station along the Main Line of the Long Island Rail Road which only serves trains along the Hempstead Branch. The station is at Commonwealth Boulevard and Superior Road, south of Jericho Turnpike, in Bellerose, New York, and has a full-service ticket machine on the north side of the station, next to the underpass entrance and a daily machine on the south side next to the underpass entrance.

History

Bellerose station was originally built in 1898 and rebuilt in the summer of 1909. It was out of service between December 12–15, 1960, and replaced with a third station between 1960 and 1961. Until 1960, the station had a platform on each side of the four-track Main Line, though almost all trains that stopped ran to and from Hempstead. As part of the grade crossing elimination the junction of Main Line and Hempstead Branch was moved west of Bellerose. The two lines remain closely parallel between Jamaica and Floral Park. The platform was placed between the two Hempstead Branch tracks. No buses stop at the station, but local taxis do stop here.

Station layout

The station has one eight-car-long high-level island platform that serves the Hempstead Branch. The Port Jefferson, Ronkonkoma, Oyster Bay, and Montauk branch trains pass through the station without on the paralleling Main Line tracks.