Westwood station (LIRR)
Westwood | |||||||||||
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 Westwood Station's Malverne shelter. The Lynbrook shelter can be seen across the tracks. | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | Foster Avenue & Motley Street Malverne, NY | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°40′05.8″N 73°40′53.1″W / 40.668278°N 73.681417°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | MTA | ||||||||||
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| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||
| Parking | Yes; Village of Malverne & Lynbrook permits required | ||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Yes; Bicycle Racks | ||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
| Other information | |||||||||||
| Fare zone | 4 | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | September 1929 | ||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1955 | ||||||||||
| Electrified | October 19, 1926 750 V (DC) third rail | ||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||
| 2006 | 711[1] | ||||||||||
| Services | |||||||||||
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Westwood is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's West Hempstead Branch serving the villages of Malverne, Lynbrook, and Valley Stream, New York. The station platform is located on Foster Avenue in Malverne, New York, with parking facilities on both the Malverne (Foster Avenue at Motley Street) and Lynbrook (Whitehall Street at Whittier Street) sides of the tracks. It has no station building other than a pair of open shelters, the larger one on the Malverne side of the tracks. It also features a gated at-grade pedestrian crossing,[2] one of only two such stations on the Long Island Rail Road to exclusively feature such crossings, the other being Stony Brook.
No buses connect to Westwood Station, however local suburban taxi cabs do stop there. A basketball court can be found on the Malverne side of the station.[3]
History
Before the establishment of Westwood Station, the station itself was the site of a junction of two freight sidings in Lynbrook that existed only in 1924 both of which were abandoned in September of that year. The line was electrified on October 19, 1926 and the station itself was established in September 1929. The small station house had a single platform on the Malverne side, as well as an un-gated pedestrian crossing, and a pedestrian bridge over the tracks which existed only until 1938.[4] By 1955, the station house was gutted, leaving only the roof and the frame, thus transforming it into an open shelter.[5] At some point, an identical open shelter was built on the Lynbrook side of the tracks, which had a separate color scheme[6] from the Malvern shelter[7] until the 21st Century.
Platform and track
| 1 | ■ West Hempstead Branch | toward New York (Valley Stream) |
| ■ West Hempstead Branch | toward West Hempstead (Malverne) |
This station has one four-car-long side platform on the west side of the single track, which was converted into a high-level platform in the autumn of 1973.[8]
References
- ^ Average weekday, 2006 LIRR Origin and Destination Study
- ^ Westwood's at-grade Pedestrian Crossing looking from Lynbrook into Malverne (Unofficial LIRR History Website)
- ^ DanTD (June 10, 2010). Westwood Station from the Basketball Court (photograph). Retrieved July 15, 2013.
{{cite AV media}}: External link in|people= - ^ February 23, 1946 view of Westwood Station House in Malverne from across the tracks in Lynbrook, by William Gilligan (TrainsAreFun)
- ^ LIRR station History (TrainsAreFun.com)
- ^ Westwood Station on the Lynbrook side in February 1999 (Unofficial LIRR History Website)
- ^ Westwood Station on the Malverne side in June 2006 (Unofficial LIRR History Website)
- ^ Westwood Shelter Track View High-level platforms under construction September 27, 1973 George Povall collection (TrainsAreFun)
External links
Media related to Westwood (LIRR station) at Wikimedia Commons
- Westwood – LIRR
- Westwood LIRR timetable
- West Hempstead Branch Stations (Unofficial LIRR History Website)
- Station from Google Maps Street View
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