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Jamaica is a major train station of the Long Island Rail Road located in Jamaica, Queens, New York City.With weekday ridership exceeding 200,000 passengers, [8] it is the largest transit hub on Long Island, the fourth-busiest rail station in North America, and the second-busiest station that exclusively serves commuter traffic.
Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan is the actual westernmost station of the Long Island Rail Road and its busiest station. The system currently has 126 stations on eleven rail lines called "branches". [1] [4] (Not included in this count are two additional stations that serve employees of the LIRR: Hillside Facility and Boland's Landing).
The LIRR also installed a new storage track east of Massapequa and extended one east of Great Neck station, [27] [30] in addition to expanding the train yard at Ronkonkoma. [ 27 ] [ 31 ] [ 32 ] An expansion of the yard at Port Washington was also proposed, but as of September 2022 [update] , the MTA has not come to an agreement with the Town of ...
The project adds a new 9.8-mile express track between the Floral Park and Hicksville stations, which enables new express service on LIRR trains in and out of Jamaica Terminal as well as more ...
The Main Line continues southeast with four tracks to JAY Interlocking where it meets the Atlantic Branch and Montauk Branch at the west end of Jamaica station. Eight platform tracks and two bypass tracks pass Jamaica station, along with a few yard tracks and two former freight tracks on the south side that can be used by trains bypassing Jamaica.
East New York is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Atlantic Branch in the East New York and Ocean Hill neighborhoods of Brooklyn, New York City, where that branch passes through the Jamaica Pass. It is generally served by the West Hempstead Branch and the City Terminal Zone Atlantic Branches of the LIRR.
The Hillside Facility, also called the Hillside Support Facility or the Hillside Maintenance Complex, is a maintenance facility of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) in Jamaica, Queens, New York City. The Hillside facility was built between 1984 and 1991 [ 2 ] on the grounds of a section of Holban Yard, a railroad freight yard.
In the interim, the agency planned to use the tracks for train storage. [18] View of the Jamaica-Van Wyck station. On March 17, 1976, construction began on a 1,145 feet (349 m)-long section of Route 133 underneath the LIRR tracks and the Van Wyck Expressway. [15]