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Wantagh station

Wantagh is a station on the Babylon Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. It is located on Wantagh Avenue and Railroad Avenue near NY 27 in . It is used as a terminal and origin for some Babylon branch trains during the rush hours.
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  • Type: Railway station
  • Description: Long Island Rail Road station
  • Also known as: “Wantagh”, “Wantagh LIRR station”, and “Wantagh Station”
  • Address: 3265 Railroad Avenue, Wantagh, NY 11793
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Wantagh Railroad Complex and Seaford station.

Park
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, is a collection of old buildings in . It consists of the 1885-built Wantagh Railroad Station before it was moved from its original location in 1966, when the Babylon Branch was being elevated throughout the mid-20th century. is situated 2,800 feet north of Wantagh station.

Railway station
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Seaford is a station on the Babylon Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. It is located at the intersection of Sunrise Highway and Jackson Avenue in – although parking areas stretch beyond Washington Avenue east of this corner, and west towards the interchange with the Seaford–Oyster Bay Expressway. is situated 1¼ miles east of Wantagh station.

Railway station
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Bellmore is a station on the Babylon Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. It is located on the north side of Sunrise Highway between Bedford and Centre Avenues in , however the actual land area occupied by the station's several parking lots begins west of Centre Avenue and continues east of Bellmore Avenue. is situated 1 mile west of Wantagh station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wantagh and Seaford.

Town
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Hempstead is the most populous town in America, with a whopping 700,000 residents, located on the South Shore of , . The town is highly urbanized and fragmented, containing 22 semi-autonomous villages within its boundaries, and forty other neighborhoods. , encompassing the "Nassau Hub" region, has its own article.

Town
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is a census-designated place in the town of , , on the South Shore of , in , United States. The population was 15,251 at the 2020 census.

Town
is a hamlet and census-designated place in , , United States. The population according to the 2024 census is 15,937. is located on the south shore of 6 miles north of Jones Beach State Park, approximately 27 miles east of Manhattan, and 10 miles east of the Nassau-Queens Line.

Wantagh station

Latitude
40.673° or 40° 40′ 23″ north
Longitude
-73.50893° or 73° 30′ 32″ west
Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)
Operator
Long Island Rail Road
Network
Long Island Rail Road
Open location code
87G8MFFR+5C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 7004561904
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­station
Open­Street­Map feature
railway=­station
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Geo­Names ID
6352502
Wiki­data ID
Q7968126
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In Other Languages

From French to Venetian—“Wantagh station” goes by many names.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Wantagh station”. Photo: CapitalQ, CC BY-SA 3.0.