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Bascom is a light rail station located along the Union Pacific ROW with a single island platform for the two-track line that becomes a single track just south of the station on a stretch that includes the Hamilton Station. The light rail tracks are on the western side of the UP freight track. The island platform has a single cream-colored shelter that includes two sets of wind-screened benches. Decorative metal panels by artist Diana Pumpelly Bates designed to evoke baskets cover the windscreens. The platform has entrances at either end. These consists of pedestrian crossings over the southern and UP tracks that lead to a long and narrow Park & Ride lot with just two lanes of spaces with 102 total that extend north and south of the platform between the railroad lines and Southwest Expressway. Trains cross Bascom Avenue just south of the station right near the southern end of the long and narrow parking lot.
All Photos taken on 20 February, 2012

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LRV #961B for Winchester stops
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An opposite the platform white sign
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A Winchester-bound train has curved onto the single-track section
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Looking across the UP freight track at the station platform
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The platfrom with it's canopy
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A side profile or the ramp up to the platform
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The one cream-colored platform canopy
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The pedestrian-crossings to the platform have gates
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The parking lot and station across
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LRV #970 for Winchester approaches passing ZoBba's
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LRV #970B enters, a single car train
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Last Updated: 29 May, 2017
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