If you know where to look, there are a number of abandoned stations, unusual stations, as well as intact stations that have been closed for quite awhile if you are riding a LIRR train east from the Flatbush terminal in Brooklyn. There’s the East New York station, which looks like a particularly decrepit subway stop; the abandoned Woodhaven station (hard to detect, as trains passing it in the tunnel are going over 60 MPH at that point) as well as today’s entry…
…Boland’s Landing, which can be seen just as the train emerges from the tunnel eastbound at Atlantic Avenue and 125th Street. It’s part of the large Morris Park LIRR repair facility. You can see older push and pull engines that have been retired; if the public were allowed in it would be a train buff’s dream.
The station itself is unusual. It’s only two cars in length and the platform is still composed of wooden planks. It serves LIRR employees working at the Morris Park facility and the public is not allowed to exit; you would be trespassing if you did leave the train and would be detained by security. The station actually has a printed schedule, if you wanted to get photos out the window when the train stops there. The schedule can be found at the LIRR Today Boland’s Landing page.
Further east on the line, there’s the Hillside Facility station east of Jamaica, also open only to LIRR employees. That station annoys me a little, because westbounds often have to stop there and may cause me to miss a connection at Jamaica.
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10/27/22