Southampton College (LIRR station)

Southampton Campus
Location	Long Island University, off of Tuckahoe Road Shinnecock Hills, New York
Coordinates	40°53′27.6″N 72°26′26.7″W / 40.891000°N 72.440750°W / 40.891000; -72.440750Coordinates: 40°53′27.6″N 72°26′26.7″W / 40.891000°N 72.440750°W / 40.891000; -72.440750
Owned by	LIRR
Line(s)	Montauk Branch
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	1
Other information
Station code	None
Fare zone	14
History
Opened	1907, 1976
Closed	1939, 1998
Previous names	Golf Grounds (1907–1939)
Services
None Preceding station   LIRR   Following station Shinnecock Hills station Montauk Branch (current and former locations) Southampton station

Southampton Campus was a rail station located along the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. It was originally opened as a seasonal flag stop called Golf Grounds around April 1907 to serve sites such as the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club and National Golf Links of America. This station was closed in 1939.

In order to serve the Long Island University's Southampton College (now owned by Stony Brook University) it reopened on May 24, 1976. It was discontinued as a station stop and removed on March 16, 1998 due to low usage, along with a handful of other Long Island Rail Road stations. The station only had an average daily ridership of 16 and the low ridership did not make it cost effective for high level platforms to be installed to accommodate new bilevel rail cars.

A temporary station was opened in June 2004 for the U.S. Open and was listed as Shinnecock Hills on special timetables. The Long Island Rail Road also provided service for spectators traveling to the 1986 U.S. Open, when the station was called Southampton College.

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