Platform and Tracks
Four tracks pass the station, but the two north ones (the Montauk Branch) have no platform and are used by trains on the Babylon, Montauk and West Hempstead Branches that bypass this station. An eight-car long island platform is between the two south tracks, Tracks 1 and 2, of what is officially called the Atlantic Branch. These tracks are mostly used by trains of the Far Rockaway and Long Beach branches, and as a terminal for those West Hempstead Branch trains that terminate/originate at Valley Stream.
At the east end of the station the Atlantic Branch designation ends: the two tracks become the Long Beach Branch continuing east to Lynbrook and Long Beach, while the Far Rockaway Branch curves south toward Far Rockaway in New York City.
Read more about this topic: Valley Stream (LIRR Station)
Famous quotes containing the words platform and/or tracks:
“I marched in with the men afoot; a gallant show they made as they marched up High Street to the depot. Lucy and Mother Webb remained several hours until we left. I saw them watching me as I stood on the platform at the rear of the last car as long as they could see me. Their eyes swam. I kept my emotion under control enough not to melt into tears.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“The tracks of moose, more or less recent, to speak literally, covered every square rod on the sides of the mountain; and these animals are probably more numerous there now than ever before, being driven into this wilderness, from all sides, by the settlements.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)