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new.mta.info /agency /long-island-rail-road: Operation; Began operation: 1834 (190 years ago) () Operator(s) Metropolitan Transportation Authority: Reporting marks: LI: Technical; System length: 319 mi (513 km) (route); 700 mi (1,100 km) (total track length) Track gauge: 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge: Electrification: Third rail ...
Jamaica is the Long Island Rail Road's hub station. There are six high-level island platforms . Five of them, Platforms A–E, serve tracks 1–8 and are each 1,000 feet (300 m) long, fitting almost 12 cars.
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.
Long Island Rail Road: Line(s) Atlantic Branch: Platforms: 3 island platforms: Tracks: 6: Connections: New York City Subway: at Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center NYCT Bus: B41, B45, B63, B65, B67, B103: Construction; Accessible: Yes: Other information; Fare zone: 1: History; Opened: July 2, 1877: Rebuilt: 1907, 2010: Electrified: July 26, 1905 ...
An 1882 map of the Long Island Rail Road. Hoping to build a line from Bay Ridge through East New York to Valley Stream, in 1870, the New York and Hempstead Railroad was incorporated. The line was leased by the South Side Railroad after two years of grading and excavating, but because of the financial panic of 1873 the project was drawn to a halt.
List of Long Island Rail Road stations. Schematic diagram of Long Island Rail Road services and stations. The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) is a commuter railway system serving all four counties of Long Island, with two stations in the Manhattan borough of New York City in the U.S. state of New York.
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.
This is a route-map template for Grand Central LIRR terminal, a New York City train station . For information on using this template, refer to Template:Routemap. For pictograms used, see Commons:BSicon/Catalogue. Categories: Templates for railway lines of the United States.
The Ronkonkoma Branch is a rail service operated by the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) in the U.S. state of New York. On LIRR maps and printed schedules, the "Ronkonkoma Branch" includes trains running along the railroad's Main Line from Hicksville (where the Port Jefferson Branch leaves the Main Line) to Ronkonkoma , and between Ronkonkoma and ...
LIRR maps and schedules show Hempstead Branch service continuing west along the Main Line to Jamaica. Hempstead Branch trains provide most service at Hollis and Queens Village . [2] [3] The line is double tracked to just east of Garden City Station, where it is reduced to one track at Garden Interlocking for the final 1.4 miles (2.3 km) to ...
