by bellstbarn
A summer treat is to see crowds traveling by rail. Today I visited Bay Shore and watched passengers gather long in advance for the 5:57 p.m. and its 42-minute trip to Jamaica. Recall that Bay Shore got its 12-car platforms before double-deckers arrived. The Sunday travellers wisely encamped east of the six-car marker, where the cab of the 4-car train stopped. Five minutes earlier, I had counted 215 people on the platform. Boarding was quick, except for those who waited at the station building or further east. The crew had to encourage them to move west a few cars to board.
I haven't measured it, but Bay Shore must have one of the narrowest high-level platforms on the system. Bodies are perilously close to the edge.
One surprise: The ticket agent kept using the microphone to remind people that he was available for cash purchases. A quarter-hour before train time, I counted thirteen on line at the TVM, while the window had a line of one.
Bay Shore also gets morning commuter crowds. Electrifying from Babylon Yard to Bay Shore, requiring just one cross-over, would provide an alternative parking solution (to Babylon's restrictive Village) and, I'm sure, not be a little-used service as the East Williston electrification. Maybe the hope of this smart move led the LIRR to post the "10 MU" marker on the westbound platform.
Thanks to the person who installed the historical photos in the waiting room. Imagine, the first station building lasted 30 years and this one (so far) 93. It opened July 17, 1912. Thanks.
I haven't measured it, but Bay Shore must have one of the narrowest high-level platforms on the system. Bodies are perilously close to the edge.
One surprise: The ticket agent kept using the microphone to remind people that he was available for cash purchases. A quarter-hour before train time, I counted thirteen on line at the TVM, while the window had a line of one.
Bay Shore also gets morning commuter crowds. Electrifying from Babylon Yard to Bay Shore, requiring just one cross-over, would provide an alternative parking solution (to Babylon's restrictive Village) and, I'm sure, not be a little-used service as the East Williston electrification. Maybe the hope of this smart move led the LIRR to post the "10 MU" marker on the westbound platform.
Thanks to the person who installed the historical photos in the waiting room. Imagine, the first station building lasted 30 years and this one (so far) 93. It opened July 17, 1912. Thanks.