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Greenlawn was originally known as Old Fields, but the first railroad station was named Centreport as it was meant to serve the village of Centerport, located about to the north. In the span of a decade, it was changed to Greenlawn-Centerport and then finally Greenlawn to reflect the new community that had developed around the railroad station.
The first depot was built in 1868 by the 
The station is about west of the former junction of the
Station from Broadway from Google Maps Street View
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on the Port Jefferson Branch
The Port Jefferson Branch is a rail line and service owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in the U.S. state of New York. The branch splits from the Main Line just east of Hicksville and runs northeast and east to Port Jefferson. Sever ...
of the Long Island Rail Road
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near the intersection of Boulevard Avenue and Broadway (Suffolk CR 86) in Greenlawn, New York
Greenlawn is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Suffolk County, New York, United States. Located on Long Island in the Town of Huntington, the population was 13,742 at the 2010 census. Students primarily attend the Harborfields Centra ...
, a few blocks north of Pulaski Road. It is the first station east of Huntington on the non-electrified section of the branch.
History
Greenlawn was originally known as Old Fields, but the first railroad station was named Centreport as it was meant to serve the village of Centerport, located about to the north. In the span of a decade, it was changed to Greenlawn-Centerport and then finally Greenlawn to reflect the new community that had developed around the railroad station.
The first depot was built in 1868 by the Hicksville and Cold Spring Branch Railroad
The Port Jefferson Branch is a rail line and service owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in the U.S. state of New York. The branch splits from the Main Line just east of Hicksville and runs northeast and east to Port Jefferson. Se ...
, renamed "Greenlawn" in 1870, burned down on September 29, 1910, and was replaced by the current building in September 1911. The station building was painted with green trim (reflecting the station locale) in the 1990s, after having been painted light blue for several decades. The station had a ticket agent until 1996. In 2017, the station building received a new asphalt roof.
The station is about west of the former junction of the Northport Branch
The Northport Branch was a spur off the Port Jefferson Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, running from between Greenlawn and Northport stations to directly within Northport Village.
Northport became the terminus of an extension of the Hicks ...
, a freight-only railroad spur into Northport built in 1868: it was abandoned in 1978. A team track for off-line customers of the New York & Atlantic Railway
The New York and Atlantic Railway (NY&A) is a short line railroad formed in 1997 to provide freight service over the tracks of the Long Island Rail Road, a public commuter rail agency which had decided to privatize its freight operations. An a ...
exists just west of the station. It is sporadically used. The platform on the south side of the station is not used. The switches for the siding are hand-operated, not remotely controlled by DIVIDE Tower in Hicksville, thus making it impractical for everyday LIRR use. The siding is mostly used by work trains and, on rare occasions, by NYA freight trains.
High-level platforms and a pedestrian bridge were added at Greenlawn Station in 1985. These renovations were made in anticipation of planned electrification of the branch from Huntington to Port Jefferson, which has yet to occur.
Station layout
The station has two high-levelside platform
A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platforms ...
s. The north platform, next to the main track, is 12 cars long. The south platform, next to the siding, is eight cars long, and is not in use. There is also a pedestrian bridge connecting the two platforms. On either ends of the station, the two tracks merge into one.
References
External links
*Station from Broadway from Google Maps Street View
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