Lawrence
Lawrence is a stop on the Far Rockaway Branch and has two side platforms built and still in use from around 1968 when the M1s were introduced. The station has two side platforms that extend north from the grade crossing with Lawrence Avenue. The Far Rockaway-bound platform is along a small parking lot and includes a staircase and ramp at its very end along with just one more staircase from a small parking lot before it extends down past a warehouse that has Health Club lettered on it. The only shelter is a single metal canopy. The New York-bound platform begins at the same grade crossing and has the station's parking lot along it with ramps and staircases up to the platform. Along this platform just set back is the 1913 (Trains are Fun, LIRR Station History) depot still open weekdays from 5:00am to 2:30pm and lost it's ticket agent in April 1996 (Carole Paquette 'L.I.R.R. Moving to Drop 32 More Ticket Windows' The New York Times, Jaunary 14, 1996, Link). The depot has a few benches along two different walls and also includes a single, quite large bathroom. The depot's gabled roof extends providing shelter in either direction from the building and the stop's TVMs are beneath it. There is also a seperate enclosure with a Bank of America ATM.
All photos taken on 3 January, 2012
The depot in front of the parking lot
A gap in the fence and a path that winds its way to a staircase up to the New York-bound platform.
The dirt track behind the New York platform
The back of a metal shelter on the platform
The shelter glistens in the sun on the New York platform
Looking towards the northern ends of the platform, no more entrances, just platform
The Health Club behind the platform sign for Lawrence
The staircase down to the path to the most northern entrance to the New York platform
The ramp from the New York platform
This gabled shelter extends from the depot, in an area just behind the high level platform
Short staircases up to the New York platform in front of the depot
Two TVMs along different walls of the depot and orange signs for them
A door into the waiting room
The area between the depot and the platform
The waiting room is open from 5am to 2:30pm
The waiting room is fairly large and sparse
A few information panels (one was left open) and an electronic train information sign inside the depot
Last Updated:4 January, 2012
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