UNTIL 1906 CENTRE MORICHES WAS A TERMINAL WITH A WYE AND SMALL YARD. EMPLOYE TIME TABLE NUMBER 8 - DECEMBER 4, 1898 - SHOWS THE SCOOT LEAVING AMAGANSETT AT 9:10 A.M. AND THE SHUTTLE LEAVING SAG HARBOR AT 9:15 A.M., BOTH AS TRAIN NUMBER 892, AND CONNECTING AT BRIDGEHAMPTON. DEPARTING THERE AT 9:32, THE TRAIN STOPPED AT EASTPORT AT 10:28 AND CONTINUED WEST TO CENTRE MORICHES TO CONNECT THERE WITH WESTBOUND TRAIN NUMBER 68 WHICH ORIGINATED THERE. AFTER NUMBER 11 WENT EAST AT 10:43 THE SCOOT DEPARTED EASTWARD AS NUMBER 896 AT 10:48, PROBABLY BACKING THE TRAIN, TO EASTPORT WHERE IT PICKED UP ITS GREENPORT CONNECTION DROPPED BY NUMBER 11. IT LEFT EASTPORT STILL AS NUMBER 896 AT 10:57, MADE AN "S" STOP AT MANOR AT 11:10 AND DEPARTED EASTBOUND AT 11:15 AS NUMBER 893, ARRIVING AT GREENPORT AT 12:18 P.M. THE RETURN TRIP LEFT GREENPORT AT 1:50 P.M. AS NUMBER 894, ARRIVED AT MANOR AT 2:51 AND DEPARTED AT 3:00 P.M. AS NUMBER 895. ARRIVING AT EASTPORT AT 3:24, A CONNECTION WAS DROPPED FOR WESTBOUND NUMBER 12 TO L.I.CITY AND BROOKLYN VIA THE MONTAUK DIVISION. NUMBER 895 ARRIVED AT AMAGANSETT AT 4:44.
THE CONNECTING SHUTTLE ARRIVED AT SAG HARBOR AT 4:33. |