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By Peggy Darlington
East refers to trains to Port Washington while West
refers to trains to New York

We will begin at Mets-Willets
Point which has one open island platform and two tracks.
There are three other island platforms to the south of the open
platform the southernmost being removed. This station is very
overbuilt due to enhanced service which ran for the 1964-1965
Word's Fair in nearby Flushing Meadows- Corona Park. The special
trains ended their run at this station.
Next up is Flushing Main Street
with two wall platforms and two tracks. The station is
elevated and has stairways to the street. No stationhouse was
found, only bus shelters. The line now resembles the
Brighton or Sea
Beach BMT lines with very similar stations.
We arrive at Murray Hill
which holds only four cars and has two wall platforms, two
tracks and a crossover. the station platforms are cut into the
sidewall of this open cut section.
We come to Broadway with
two tracks, two wall platforms and is located on a grade and low
embankment. This station has been on
the renovated. A concrete stationhouse was found on the
Eastbound Platform.
Auburndale has an island platform serving the
two tracks and has recently been renovated. There are new
"Old--fashioned" lights and enclosed stairways to the street
from the elevated/embankment located station.
We revert to open cut and enter
Bayside with two wall platforms, two tracks. A nice, two
story brick stationhouse is located at street level
complete with covered stairs to the street and crossover. The
eastbound platform is longer and offset. The line reverts to
grade level and we pass a small Maintenance of Way Yard to our
North end then rise to a low embankment.
Douglaston follows. also two wall
platforms and has bus shelters near the east end which is in a
low cut.. high end bus shelters are located at the Stationhouse
on the North side stationhouse which has a crossover.
Little Neck is at grade and has a closed
stationhouse on the eastbound platform near the west end.
A crossover is located neat the center. Bus shelters were also
present.

Great Neck has two tracks and two wall
platforms and is in an open cut. A nice stationhouse is located
over the Westbound platform. An MTA Arts in Transit installation
was present-- A series of Wire Sculptures on the eastbound
platform. two crossovers were also present.
The line becomes a single track the
eastbound track merges with the westbound track and the line
becomes a high embankment) and we enter Manhasset
with the platform on the South side featuring a nice
stationhouse with red walls near the center of the platform. ADA
ramps are present at this shallow cut station which also has a
nice high end bus shelter at the east end and a crossover at the
west end. A second stationhouse is at the west end and is two
stories high.
We start a high speed descent to
Plandome which has the platform on the North
side. this station's terrain varies from at grade to embankment
to open cut. A 2 story stationhouse is at platform level and
features gray stucco walls with white trim and parking
underneath. We enter a long curve with squealing wheels and
expand to two tracks and finally six tracks.
Port Washington has 6 usable tracks with four
active tracks serving two island platforms. A crossover at the
North end serves all platforms and the parking area. the station
also has a bypass track to the North and South of the line. Bump
block is at the east end. layout is as follows from North to
South:
Low platform, track 6,
track 5, island platform, track 4
track 3, island platform, track 2
track 1, low platform.
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