Basking Ridge
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Basking Ridge is a Gladstone Branch station just inside the lines crossing of I-287. This expressway is closest to an outer beltway around the New York City Metropolitan Area (it makes a crescent running from Port Chester in Westchester over the Tappan-Zee Bridge and south before curving back east and ending near the Outerbridge Crossing). The station has a single track with a 7 car low-level side platform on the south side of this track that begins at the grade-crossing of Ridge Street and runs west. The edge of the platform is simply a decaying yellowing line; the station is far from ADA compliant. In the middle of this platform is a station house with simple cream-colored flat walls covered by advertisements, maroon famed windows and a Spanish tile roof. In the middle of the roof a historic semaphore signal still stands albeit non-operating. Inside is a small waiting room with wooden benches, a small book exchange shelf, and a restroom. A radiator is in the middle of the room. It was closed on a summer afternoon. No hours of operation for the waiting room are posted. The station has two small parking lots, the main are a couple rows of parking on each side of Depot Street that runs along the station. These are 53 daily and permit parking spaces. Depot Street curves around to a second, smaller lot that has some grass with a walkway down to the platform and 36 parking spaces
All Photos taken on 30 May, 2014

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Approaching the station, this is the small upper parking lot
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The station is along a small amount of parking
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The platform beyond the parking lot, the overpass bridge over I-287 is visible
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The semaphore signal on the roof of the depot
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Looking into the waiting area with a bench along one wall and radiator in the middle
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The main doors into the station, signs around them are unreadable
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Looking through the windows into the station, notice the door that says Signal Department and sealed ticket window
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Streetside of the depot
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A walkway to the extra parking lots above the station
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The grade-crossing of Ridge Street at the station
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A sign for the station and grade-crossing at the entrance to the platform
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