Pinelawn station
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Pinelawn
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The now-demolished station house, facing west on Long Island Avenue
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| Location | Wellwood Avenue (Suffolk CR 3) & Long Island Avenue Melville, NY |
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| Coordinates | 40°44′43″N 73°23′58″W / 40.745339°N 73.399572°WCoordinates: 40°44′43″N 73°23′58″W / 40.745339°N 73.399572°W | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Long Island Rail Road | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Main Line | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Connections |
 Suffolk County Transit: S31
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| Parking | Yes; Free | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disabled access | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 9 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1895 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1915, 1925, 1979, 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Electrified | 1987 750 V (DC) third rail |
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| Previous names | Melville (1895–1897) Pinelawn (Melville) (1897–1899) |
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| Passengers (2006) | 50 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pinelawn is a railroad station along the Main Line (Ronkonkoma Branch) of the Long Island Rail Road. It is on Long Island Avenue, east of the Suffolk County Road 3 (Wellwood Avenue) grade crossing, south of Melville, New York.
The Pinelawn station originally had two different station houses with their own histories. Both were created to serve Pinelawn Cemetery, Wellwood Cemetery, and other cemeteries in the vicinity. The first station opened as a flag stop on the northeast corner of Wellwood Avenue in 1895 as Melville, a name it maintained until 1897. From there it would be named Pinelawn (Melville) and finally Pinelawn in 1899.
The second station was built in 1915, and moved to the southeast side of Wellwood Avenue in 1925. It was remodeled again in June, 1979, but only as a shelter. Despite nearly being eliminated as part of the Long Island Rail Road's electrification of the main line towards Ronkonkoma, along with Wyandanch, and Brentwood, the station was saved as part of a bipartisan effort by New York State Senator Owen Johnson (R-West Babylon) and Assemblyman Patrick Halpin (D-Lindenhurst), and given a high-level platform in 1986.
As part of the Main Line Second Track Project which will build a second track between Farmingdale and Ronkonkoma, the LIRR is currently constructing two new platforms at Pinelawn. The existing station building was demolished, allowing construction of a second platform.
This station has one track and one two-car-long side platform to the north of the track, serving the front cars of westbound trains and the rear cars of eastbound trains. It replaced a side platform that was located to the south of the track, east of the station house; this platform was demolished as part of the Double Track project. A second platform to the south is being built as part of the project.
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