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The Jamaica station 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.
English: The center platform at Rockville Centre (LIRR station) in Rockville Centre, New York, looking west toward Lynbrook, Valley Stream, Jamaica, Brooklyn, Long Island City, and Manhattan. Date Taken on 24 September 2012, 10:55:52
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).
Lines are shown as indicated and named on the official LIRR map; in actual service trains often switch paths through Jamaica. The Lower Montauk Line, owned by the LIRR but now a New York and Atlantic Railway secondary, is shown with a thin dashed line. Date: Accurate to 27 February 2023: Source: Own work: Author
[25]: 17.3 On the southeast corner, two escalators (one up, one down) and a staircase lead to street level, just outside the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR)'s Jamaica station. Additional staircases lead from street level to each of the LIRR platform. Three elevators provide access to the street level and the LIRR station's main mezzanine areas.
A large fire broke out at a recycling center east of the Long Island Rail Road’s Jamaica Station on Friday, March 16, knocking out service to four of the service’s lines. The Queens, New York ...
The platforms, as viewed looking east from the 61st Street–Woodside station. Woodside originally had two railroad stations. One was built in 1861 on 60th Street by the LIRR subsidiary New York and Jamaica Railroad; the other, larger station was built by the Flushing and North Side Railroad on November 15, 1869, and was the first to be built by the F&NS after acquiring the troubled New York ...
Harold Interlocking and Sunnyside Yard in 1977. Harold Interlocking is a large railroad junction in New York City.The busiest rail junction in the United States, [1] it serves trains on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor and the Long Island Rail Road's Main Line and Port Washington Branch, which diverge at the junction.