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Sag Harbor Branch. The Sag Harbor Branch was a branch of the Long Island Rail Road that was the eastern terminal on the south shore line of Long Island from 1869 to 1895 and then was a spur from Bridgehampton to Sag Harbor, New York from 1895 to 1939.
Sag Harbor was the terminus of the abandoned Sag Harbor Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, and was one of two stations within the village of Sag Harbor, New York. It opened in 1870 with the arrival of the LIRR into Sag Harbor, and was the eastern terminus of the LIRR on the south fork of Long Island until 1895, when the Brooklyn and Montauk ...
Bay Ridge Branch: 1888 1924 Sag Harbor: Sag Harbor Branch: 1871 1939 Saint George's Manor: Main Line: see Manorville Salisbury Plains: Central Extension: Schenectady Avenue: Atlantic Branch: Sea Side House: Far Rockaway Branch: 1872 1887? Seaside: Montauk Branch: see Babylon Seaside: Rockaway Beach Branch: 1880 1955 Setauket: Port Jefferson ...
In 1881, the line was extended east from Patchogue to Eastport by the Brooklyn and Montauk Railroad, connecting it to the Sag Harbor Branch, opening on July 17, 1881. This created a continuous rail line along the South Shore to Sag Harbor.
Manorville. Terminus. Sag Harbor Branch. Speonk. toward Sag Harbor. Eastport was a railroad station built on the former Manorville Branch of the Long Island Rail Road in Eastport, New York. It was opened in 1870 and closed in 1958. It was the easternmost station along both branches in the Town of Brookhaven.
The Sag Harbor Branch ran north from the Montauk Branch at Bridgehampton to Sag Harbor. The Wading River Branch ran east from Port Jefferson to Wading River, serving the towns of Mount Sinai, Miller Place, Rocky Point, and Shoreham.
Inaugural westbound run of the Cannon Ball from Montauk in 1899. The Cannonball approaching Eastport via the Manorville Branch in 1923. The predecessor of the Cannonball was a seasonal afternoon express train from New York City to Sag Harbor, which began operation shortly after the now-abandoned Sag Harbor Branch was completed in 1870.
The LIRR opened the Sag Harbor Branch, including the present Montauk Branch from Eastport to Bridgehampton, on June 8, 1870. On July 27, 1881, after the South Side became part of the LIRR, its line – then the Montauk Division – was extended east to the Sag Harbor Branch at Eastport.
toward Montauk. Water Mill. toward Manorville. Sag Harbor Branch. Noyack Road. toward Sag Harbor. Bridgehampton is a station along the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. It is located at Maple Lane and Butter Lane, in Bridgehampton, New York .
Since the LIRR built the Sag Harbor Branch in 1869 and 1870 to cut off the competition, an extension beyond Patchogue was not built. Prior to the acquisition by the LIRR, there was a proposal by the SSRRLI to extend the main line southeast towards Bellport, and then northeast to Brookhaven and Southaven. Rather than the Brookhaven station that ...