Woodside station (LIRR)

The Woodside station is a station on the Main Line and Port Washington Branch of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR), located in the Woodside neighborhood of Queens in New York City. It is the first station passed by eastward trains from Penn Station and Grand Central Madison, and it is the only station in Queens shared by the Port Washington Branch and other LIRR branches. East of Woodside the two-track Port Washington Branch turns northeastward, while the four-track Main Line continues southeast to Jamaica station.

Woodside has six tracks and three platforms. The four southernmost tracks passing through the station are the Main Line tracks; the two center tracks on the Main Line are through (express) tracks and do not have platform faces at Woodside. The two northernmost tracks are the Port Washington branch tracks, both of which have platforms. West of the station, at Harold Interlocking, the line merges with Amtrak's Hell Gate Bridge access tracks (part of the Northeast Corridor) before entering the East River Tunnels or 63rd Street Tunnel to Manhattan, or taking the Main Line to Hunterspoint Avenue. The 61st Street–Woodside station of the IRT Flushing Line (served by the 7 and <7>​ trains) is above Woodside station, on a viaduct high above Roosevelt Avenue. At street level, the Q70 SBS bus provides limited-stop service to LaGuardia Airport. The station is ADA-accessible via elevators and ramps.