East of Woodside the two-track Port Washington Branch turns northeastward, while the four-track Main Line continues southeast to Jamaica station.

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.

Though the line was electrified on June 16, 1910, the station was closed in 1914 due to a grade elimination project and razed on November 17, 1915.

On March 17, 1936, at a hearing of the New York State Transit Commission and the New York State Public Service Commission, the LIRR said that it would seek permission in 1937 to abandon the three stations along the Main Line between Jamaica and Pennsylvania Station—Kew Gardens, Forest Hills, and Woodside.

The LIRR had said that it anticipated a loss of annual revenue between $750,000 and $1 million with the opening of the extension of the Independent Subway System's Queens Boulevard Line to Jamaica.

The central one, an island platform (Platform B) between Track 2 of the Port Washington Branch and Track 3 of the Main Line, is generally used by eastbound or outbound Port Washington trains and westbound or Manhattan-bound Main Line trains.