Owned by MTA Tracks 2 Opened 19 April 1869 Platforms in use 2 | Line(s) Oyster Bay Branch Connections Mid-Island Taxi Connection Mid Island Taxi | |
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Location Birch Hill Road & Piping Rock Road
Locust Valley, NY Parking Yes; Town of Oyster Bay Residency, Off-Peak and other Address Matinecock, NY 11560, United States Owner Metropolitan Transportation Authority Similar Glen Street, East Williston, Centre Avenue, Greenvale, Lawrence | ||
Locust Valley is a station along the Oyster Bay Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. It is located at Birch Hill Road and Piping Rock Road, south of Forest Avenue, Locust Valley, New York.
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No bus access is available at the station; however, local taxicabs do stop.
History
Locust Valley station was opened on April 19, 1869 and was the terminus of the line until 1889. On Aug. 22 the turntable and engine house was moved from Glen St. and installed here. Charles Hallet finished a depot here in Nov. 1872; photographed by Brainerd in 1878.New station building erected 1909. It was rebuilt in November 1872, remodeled in 1885, and rebuilt again in December 1906, when the second station was moved to a private location. When Mill Neck station was closed on March 16, 1998, Locust Valley became the last station before the end of the line. The station also contains an old-style wooden shelter on the eastbound tracks, and a former interlocking tower, known to the LIRR as Locust Tower that now serves as a Nassau County Police Department booth for the Second Precinct patrolmen assigned to the area.
Station layout
This station has two high-level side platforms, each four cars long. A siding just west of the station served the Nassau-Suffolk Lumber until the late 1970s. The Oyster Bay Branch becomes a single track line a few 100 feet beyond the Birch Hill Road crossing at LOCUST interlocking.