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)
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