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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.
LIRR trains arrive and depart from the twin station caverns and through a tunnel located 140 ft (43 m) below Park Avenue and more than 90 ft (27 m) below the Metro-North tracks. The LIRR terminal contains four platforms and eight tracks (numbered 201–204 and 301–304) in two bi-level caverns.
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.
Long Island Rail Road: Line(s) Main Line: Distance: 7.7 mi (12.4 km) from Long Island City: Platforms: 2 side platforms: Tracks: 4: Connections: MTA Bus: Q10, Q37, QM18 (Q37 at 80th Road and Austin Street) Construction; Parking: Yes: Bicycle facilities: Bike racks (westbound platform) Other information; Fare zone: 1: History; Opened: 1879, 1883 ...
Harold Interlocking. Coordinates: 40.7485°N 73.927°W. Harold Interlocking and Sunnyside Yard in 1977. Harold Interlocking is a large railroad junction located in New York City. It is the busiest rail junction in the United States. [1]
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.
