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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 the Main Line's eastern terminus at Greenport.
The Westbury station was built at some point in March 1837, with the opening of the Long Island Rail Road to Hicksville. The station was closed between June and September of the same year, briefly replaced by the nearby Carle Place station. [3] Throughout much of the mid-19th Century, the J.P. Kelsey Branch Store served as the station's depot. [4]
Ronkonkoma Branch Nassau: 1854 7 Jerusalem Station (1854–1936) Central Park (1867–1936) Boland's Landing City Terminal Zone (Atlantic Branch) Queens: 1886 N/A: Brentwood Ronkonkoma Branch Suffolk: 1870 10 Bridgehampton Montauk Branch: Suffolk: 1870 14 Broadway Port Washington Branch: Queens
It is the first new station built by the LIRR in nearly 50 years; the last new station added was the former Southampton College station on the Montauk Branch, which opened in 1976 and closed in 1998, due to low ridership and the high cost of installing high-level platforms for the then-new C3 railcars. [48]
Redirecting LIRR trains from Penn Station to Grand Central Terminal frees up tracks and platforms at Penn. This new capacity, as well as track connections resulting from the East Side Access project, allows Metro-North Railroad trains on the New Haven Line to run to Penn Station via Amtrak's Hell Gate Bridge .
The MTA planned a new station in Sunnyside, Queens, once East Side Access was completed. [6] [7] The MTA later proposed in their 20-year needs assessment for 2025 to 2044 that Sunnyside station serve both the LIRR and the Metro-North Railroad, with the latter providing service to Penn Station after Penn Station Access is completed. [8]
The Mineola station was the eighth-busiest station on the Long Island Rail Road as of 2006, in terms of weekday boardings, with 10,348 boardings per day; all trains on the Main Line (Port Jefferson & Ronkonkoma Branches) and Oyster Bay Branch run through the station, as well as a few for the Montauk Branch.
The Cannonball is a seasonal named train operated by the Long Island Rail Road between Penn Station in New York City and Montauk on the east end of Long Island, New York.The train operates weekly between Memorial Day and Labor Day weekend, operating eastbound on Fridays and westbound on Sundays, with westbound service also being offered through Columbus Day weekend.