Southampton is a station on the

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of the Long Island Rail Road, on North Main Street between Prospect Street and Willow Street in

Southampton, New York Southampton, officially the Town of Southampton, is a town in southeastern Suffolk County, New York, partly on the South Fork of Long Island. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the town had a population of 69,036. Southampton is included in the stret ...

. (Prospect and Willow Streets are on the west side of North Main Street, but the station is located on the east side.)

History

Southampton station was opened in February 1871, then razed and rebuilt in 1902. The station is part of the village's North Main Street Historic District, which has been on the

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since 1986. A freight house was also added across the tracks from this station, but it was severely neglected, and was finally demolished in 2006.

Station layout

The station has one eight-car-long high-level

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on the south side of the main track. Two siding tracks are on the north side of the main track.

References

External links

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Southampton Station Freight House(TrainsAreFun.com)
*Unofficial LIRR Photography Site

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