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Posted 23 September 2017 - 07:12 PM

LIRR news release, 9/22/17:

 
LIRR Crews to Improve Safety, Reliability on Babylon Branch This Fall
 
Eastbound and Westbound Trains to Run Hourly on Select Weekends Starting Sept. 30
 

 

As part of the Long Island Rail Road’s efforts to improve infrastructure to ensure safety and increase on-time performance, LIRR crews this fall will replace wood ties with concrete ties on the Babylon Branch between Freeport and Merrick. The work is being done under the LIRR’s 2017 Annual Track Program, an ongoing initiative designed to enhance future service.

 

During the weekends of Sept. 30-Oct. 1; Oct. 7-8; Oct. 14-15; Nov. 4-5; Nov. 11-12, one of two main tracks will be out of service between Rockville Centre and Wantagh. Between 12:37 a.m. on Saturdays and 2:19 a.m. on Mondays, trains on the Babylon Branch will continue to operate in both directions, but will run on an hourly basis, reduced from every half hour, with stopping patterns revised on remaining trains.

 

Other changes on these weekends include some eastbound trains on the Huntington Branch that will stop at Forest Hills and Kew Gardens. Some Patchogue, Speonk and Montauk Branch trains will be running on adjusted schedules and have alternate connections at Jamaica or Babylon. Some eastbound Oyster Bay connections from Penn Station, Kew Gardens and Forest Hills will also change; trains will depart three minutes earlier at Penn Station and five minutes earlier at Kew Gardens and Forest Hills.

 

 






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