WESTBURY    

1ST DEPOT APPEARS ON TT OF 9/3/1838, UTILIZING THE TRACKSIDE J. P. KELSEY'S BRANCH STORE (G. Brainerd photographic provenance.)
2ND DEPOT BUILT: APR-JUNE/1883
3RD DEPOT BUILT: 1914, GREATLY REMODELED: 1972. PER RAY MUNTZ, ANOTHER REMODELING BEGAN IN APRIL, 2001 BUT POSSIBLY DUE TO A DISCOVERED STRUCTURAL DEFECT, UPPER PORTION OF EXISTING 
BLDG. WAS LEVELED AND NEW DEPOT CONSTRUCTED ATOP LOWER LEVEL OF OLD DEPOT (Ray Muntz photographic provenance.)

Emery map - Westbury MP21-22 pre-1914 Grade Elimination  Archive: Dave Keller

Westbury Station 1903 Archive: Dave Morrison

Westbury - Artist Peter Helck interpretation of  driver  Henri Fournier 1901 accident Archive: Ray Muntz

Westbury crossing accident -10/30/1901
Archive: Ray Muntz
 

Henri Fournier (14 April 1871 – 18 December 1919) was a French racing driver. Born in 1871 in Le Mans, Fournier began his career on motorcycles and tricycles. In 1901 he came to the Mors racing team and was the most successful driver of this year, as he won both the Paris–Bordeaux and Paris–Berlin races Wikipedia

THE LONG ISLAND RAIL ROAD AND IT’S PROMOTION OF LONG ISLAND, 1900-1930 by Sean Kass 
The railroad organized and hosted promotional events. LIRR Special Agent Hal B. Fullerton, the single most important figure in the railroad’s massive promotional campaign, spent thirty years in the railroad’s Passenger Department “promoting and advertising events, activities, or plans that would bring public attention to the Island’s potential for sport, recreation, business and residential development for both the middle classes and the urban elite.” These events included lectures delivered by Fullerton (1897-1929), the Vanderbilt Cup automobile races (1904-1910), the Mile-A-Minute Murphy Challenge (1899), and experimental farms at Wading River (1905-1910) and Medford (1910-1927)..."

Westbury Station 1907 Archive: Dave Morrison

Vincent F. Seyfried's LIRR History (Volume 6, page 178) indicates the LIRR changing the milk train schedule in 1882 - the farmers went on strike to protest the change - as he wrote: "Westbury was the largest milk station on the Island"  Having grown up in Westbury I never saw a cow. Jean Munro gave me photos from her 1938 Girl Scout trip to One Oak dairy! Info: Ray Muntz

In the heyday of American polo during the early 20th century, Nassau County was its undisputed epicenter.

From the 1920's to the 40's, when the gilded clans of the Gold Coast, the Whitney's and the Guests, the Hitchcock's and the Phippse's, played matches in their own lavish backyards, when the Duchess of Windsor or the Maharajah of Jaipur might pop in to present a sterling silver loving cup or knock the ball around for a chukker or two on one of the Island's 50 polo fields.

The sport claimed as many as 30 polo grounds -- each the size of nine football fields -- spread among lavish estates and vast open space. Upward of 30,000 people traveled by train from New York City for weekend matches featuring players almost as well known as Babe Ruth.

"People probably can't believe it today, but polo games, then, were like baseball or college football games," said Dennis Amato, a Port Washington polo historian.

A century later, one of the last remnants of that era operates out of a barn in Old Westbury near one of the few remaining playing fields. Meadowbrook Polo Club, the oldest in the United States, began its 130th season last weekend.  Info: Newsday -  Paul Larocco -  May 23, 2011

The depot was two stories:  Ground level at street level and track level was elevated on an embankment.  The depot was heavily remodeled over the past years. You'll see in my 1955 image there were no short covered platforms. Info: Dave Keller  

LIRR map - Westbury - 1986 page 39

Westbury Station Renovation 4/2001 Photos/Archive: Ray Muntz

Westbury Station -  Night snow fall  12/2001 Photo: Ray Muntz

Westbury Station interior 10/2001 Photo/Archive: Ray Muntz

Westbury Station View NE 2013 Photo: Jeremiah Cox

MTA Westbury Parking - Newsday 9/21/2020