West Hempstead (Long Island Railroad West Hempstead Branch)

West Hempstead

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The West Hempstead Station is the stub terminus of the namesake branch with two tracks and a four-car island platform for two tracks between a motel and a scrap yard, not suburban homes like the rest of the station. Access to the narrow island platform is via a staircase or a ramp to the side at its northern end beyond the bumper blocks. It is this half of the platform that is also canopied (with red posts holding it up like the rest of the branches colors) and leads to a small building at street level where there some employee rooms along with a small waiting area that claims to be open from 5AM to 2PM weekdays (the branch after the last round of service cuts no longer has ANY service), although it was locked at 12:30 on a weekday when your webmaster visited the station. It is a small white painted cinderblocks even visible from the outside building. The stations hasnly ticket machine in the standard green tickets kisok outside the station house, and another beneath the canopy alongside the walkway to the platform This end of the platform leads to a small parking area that all entering passengers must walk through to reach the station from Hempstead Avenue.
All photos in this section taken on 4 January, 2011