Sag Harbor Branch

Sag Harbor Branch
Sag Harbor Train Station
Overview
Type	Passenger and Freight
Status	Abandoned
Locale	Southampton (town), New York
Termini	Bridgehampton (south) Sag Harbor (north)
Stations	3
Operation
Opened	1869 (1869)
Closed	May 3, 1939 (1939-05-03) (Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor) December 27, 1949 (1949-12-27) (Manorville-Eastport)
Operator(s)	Long Island Rail Road
Technical
Line length	4.8 miles (7.7 km)
Track gauge	4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)

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.

It originally continued west from Bridgehampton along the current Montauk Branch to Eastport and used what later became the Manorville Branch to the Main Line at Manorville.

The line was conceived and surveyed in 1854. In 1869 LIRR president Oliver Charlick wanted the branch to head off plans by the South Side Railroad to extend their line beyond Patchogue. A map of the branch can be seen along with the proposed SSRRLI extension from Patchogue. The original plans called for the branch to leave the Main Line at Riverhead. But Riverhead refused to pay the LIRR for the benefits of being at a junction, so the west end was moved to Manorville in the pine barrens in 1869. During construction the Quogue station "on a Sunday morning" was moved by the village from its original and current location to a location on Old Depot Road.

The Sag Harbor Line remained the farthest point on the LIRR's south shore line until 1895 when the LIRR extended the road at Bridgehampton to Montauk leaving the Sag Harbor section a spur of the Montauk Line. In 1906, a new station was opened in Sag Harbor named "Lamb's Corner". Sometime later, this station was renamed to "Noyack Road". During World War I, a freight spur was built onto the newly reinforced Long Wharf in Sag Harbor to deliver torpedoes for the E.W. Bliss Company for testing in the harbor.