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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.
Hicksville is a commuter rail station on the Main Line and Port Jefferson Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, located in Hicksville, New York. It is the busiest station east of Jamaica, Penn Station, and Grand Central Madison by combined weekday/weekend ridership. The station is located at Newbride Road (NY 106) and West Barclay
On February 26, 2019, two separate Long Island Rail Road trains hit a pickup truck at the School Street railroad crossing in Westbury on the LIRR Main Line, causing the driver and two passengers to be ejected from the vehicle resulting in their deaths, numerous injuries, and damage to the nearby LIRR station platform. [189]
The LIRR has an amalgam of different station house designs across its system. Many station houses built during the same time period (e.g., Mineola and Manhasset; 1920s), or as part of the same project (e.g., Central Islip and Deer Park; 1987 Hicksville–Ronkonkoma electrification project), share similar or identical designs.
Hicksville LIRR Station East Massapequa Sunrise Mall Renumbered to n80/n81. N81 (first use) Syosset LIRR Station Bellmore LIRR Station Merged into the N82. n81 (second use) Westfield Sunrise Hicksville LIRR station Discontinued (with the n80) on January 17, 2016. [49] Restored (with the n80) on June 26, 2016. [81] Service was discontinued on ...
The line from Hicksville to Syosset was chartered in 1853 as the Hicksville and Syosset Railroad and opened in 1854. The LIRR later planned to extend to Cold Spring Harbor, but Oliver Charlick, the LIRR's president, disagreed over the station's location, so Charlick abandoned the grade and relocated the extension south of Cold Spring, refusing to add a station stop near Cold Spring for years.
New York City-bound service on the Ronkonkoma and Port Jefferson branches east of Hicksville was canceled during the evening rush, and 11 Long ... Work train derailment snarls LIRR; 11 trains from ...
The LIRR was in the process of planning improvements to the station's west to allow westbound express trains in the morning rush hour to run via the station's eastbound tracks. [ 60 ] On July 10, 1956, the LIRR began work on a $750,000 project to install reverse signaling on the 15.7 miles of the Main Line between Divide Interlocking in ...