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The Long Island Rail Road is a railroad owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in the U.S. state of New York. It is the oldest United States railroad still operating under its original name and charter. [1] It consolidated several other companies in the late 19th century.
Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Area served: Long Island: Locale: Long Island, New York: Transit type: Commuter rail: Number of lines: 11: Number of stations: 126: Daily ridership: 253,800 (weekdays, Q4 2023) Annual ridership: 75,186,900 (2023) Chief executive: Robert Free: Headquarters: Jamaica station, Jamaica, New York, U.S. Website
The Main Line is a rail line owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in the U.S. state of New York. It begins as a two-track line at Long Island City station in Long Island City, Queens, and runs along the middle of Long Island about 95 miles (153 km) to Greenport station in Greenport, Suffolk County.
List of stations[edit] This list contains all stations currently open on the Long Island Rail Road, including seasonal-use stations. Lines with colored boxes indicate branches which serve the station, while lines in parentheses indicate the physical line the station is located on, if applicable.
The Port Washington Branch is an electrified, mostly double-tracked rail line and service owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in the U.S. state of New York.It branches north from the Main Line at the former Winfield Junction station, just east of the Woodside station in the New York City borough of Queens, and runs roughly parallel to Northern Boulevard past Mets-Willets Point ...
As a "readiness project" for the LIRR's East Side Access extension project to Grand Central Terminal, the MTA extended Track 2 an additional 1,200 feet (370 m) east, making it long enough to store two trainsets. This would allow the LIRR to increase the number of peak-hour trips between Great Neck and Penn Station/Grand Central. It also ...
Thomas R. Sharp: 1877-1881. Austin Corbin: 1881-1896. William H. Baldwin: 1896-1905. William F. Potter: 1905. Ralph Peters: 1905-1923. Samuel Rea: 1923-1928. The LIRR was operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad from 1928 to 1949. The people from Smucker and Delatour through Wyer were trustees rather than presidents, as the LIRR was in Chapter 77 ...
The Port Jefferson Branch is one of the busiest branches of the LIRR, with frequent electric service to Huntington where electrification ends, and diesel service east of Huntington continuing to Port Jefferson. The MTA also refers to the line as the "Huntington/Port Jefferson Branch" or "Huntington Branch".
11 LIRR routes; 26 rapid transit routes 25 subway routes; 1 Staten Island Railway route; 325 bus routes 234 local routes; 71 express routes; 20 Select Bus Service routes; Daily ridership: 8.6 million (2017 weekday average) Annual ridership: 2.658 billion (2017) Key people: Janno Lieber, Chairman & CEO: Headquarters: 2 Broadway, Manhattan, New ...
The Central Branch is a rail line owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) in the U.S. state of New York, extending from just east of Bethpage station to just west of Babylon station.