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Upload: LIRR’s Most Obscure Electric Branch-The West Hempstead! – 120 photos!

In this update I present the five single track (although the West Hempstead terminal has two) stations of the electrified West Hempstead Branch. In June 2010 it even lost all Weekend service due to the budget cuts. Each station is almost identical with a short four car platform (one even barely fits between to grade crossings) that were some of the last to be built in electric territory so they are a hybrid design between the original MU high level platforms and those built in diesel territory. The lines other interesting features include a stop with a basketball court, two pedestrian only fully lighted and gated pedestrian only grade crossings and four empty Customer Information Centers:

Enjoy!