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The Babylon Branch is a rail service operated by the Long Island Rail Road in the U.S. state of New York.The term refers to the trains serving Montauk Branch stations from Valley Stream east to Babylon; in other words, the Babylon Branch is a rail service rather than an actual track.
The Long Island Rail Road has four types of station designs: Ground level (most common, platforms accessible via ramps and/or staircases) Elevated (all Babylon Branch stations and select others) Open-cut (select Port Washington Branch stations) Underground (only Penn Station, Atlantic Terminal, and Grand Central terminal)
The Babylon station is a station on the Long Island Rail Road in the village of Babylon, New York at Railroad Avenue west of Deer Park Avenue (Suffolk CR 34).It is on the Montauk Branch and is the eastern terminus of the Babylon Branch service.
However, in LIRR maps and schedules for public use, the term Montauk Branch refers to the line east of Babylon; service from Jamaica to Babylon is covered by separate Babylon Branch schedules, while the line west of Jamaica is currently unused for passenger service. [3]
The Long Island Rail Road (reporting mark LI), or LIRR, is a railroad in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of New York, stretching from Manhattan to the eastern tip of Suffolk County on Long Island. The railroad currently operates a public commuter rail service, with its freight operations contracted to the New York and Atlantic Railway.
The Freeport station was originally built on October 28, 1867 by the South Side Railroad of Long Island, and was rebuilt in 1899.It is among many of the stations along the Babylon Branch that were elevated throughout Nassau and Western Suffolk counties during the 1960s, in this case October 1960.
Breslau was also a former name for Lindenhurst on what is today the Babylon Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. LIRR may have had a stop here after 1925 called "North Lindenhurst". Belmont Junction: Babylon: Bus (Suffolk County Transit): S20, S23, S25, S27, S29, S40, S42, S47
Bellmore station was established by the South Side Railroad of Long Island in October 1869, and the original structure was replaced sometime in the early-20th century. As with many other ground-level stations along the Babylon Branch in Nassau and Western Suffolk counties which had been elevated during the 1950s and 1960s, preliminary work began on February 18, 1968, to raise the tracks in ...