Belmont Park station

Starting in November 2021, the venue has also been served full-time by the Elmont–UBS Arena station, located directly to the north and along the Main Line/Hempstead Branch.

Platforms A and C can only be used when temporary wooden stairwells are installed, as LIRR coaches do not have steps fixed to them.

[6] The LIRR also stores its own gondolas, hoppers and flatcars used in work train service at the Belmont Park station.

[7][8] The first electric trains to Belmont Park ran on October 2, 1905, the opening day of the fall meet.

[16][17] On April 26, 2011 the NYRA announced that it would subsidize the cost of providing LIRR service to the racetrack for the entire spring/summer meet.

[19] Due to this overcrowding the NYRA funded a fast-tracked improvement program to partially upgrade the station in time for the 2015 Belmont Stakes.

This coincided with Elmont operating full time as part of the redevelopment of train schedules for East Side Access.

[26][27] Prior to the full time opening of the Elmont station, on racing days the Long Island Rail Road operated two trains to and from Belmont Park.

The station, as seen from the Cross Island Parkway – Hempstead Turnpike Interchange in June of 2010. Note the BNSF boxcar on the easternmost track in the terminal.
The station, as seen prior to its 2010s renovation.