Medford (LIRR station)
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Medford is a Long Island Railroad station in the hamlet of Medford, New York. It serves the Main Line and is located on New York State Route 112 between Ohio Avenue and Long Island Avenue. Access to the station is available from a narrow connecting street with the Ohio Avenue intersection. It's also accessible from the north end of Oregon Avenue.
The station also serves Suffolk County Transit bus route S61, as well as local taxicab services.
Medford Station was orignially a two-story structure located near an at-grade crossing with NY 112 that was considered one of the most dangerous crossings on the Long Island Rail Road. Demands for a bridge were ignored throughout the 1920's and 1930's. Only when a relative of a government official was killed at the crossing in 1940 was there any effort to build a bridge over Route 112. When the tracks were elevated, the station was rebuilt with a platform on top of it. The bridge across NY 112, which has a low clearence of 12 feet, 6 inches, was designed for two tracks, but the second track was abandoned in the early-1960's. In the 1990's the station was rebuilt again in preparation for future electrification of the line.
A freight spur exists along the embankment of the track in the parking lot. This was built for a nearby lumber yard and was one of numerous spurs and sidetracks that have existed in Medford since the LIRR came through the town.
[edit] External links
- Official MTA Medford Station web site
- Original Medford Station
- Old Medford Station (LIRR Unofficial History Website)
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