LIRR Storm Service Advisories

With snow continuing to pile up cross Long Island, the Long Island Railroad is operating under a winter storm plan that provides extra, early-afternoon trains today, reduced evening rush hour service, and, depending on snow accumulations, some temporary service suspensions for snow clearing and recovery operations.

Wednesday Early Afternoon

The LIRR will operate extra, early-afternoon departures from Penn Station for those customers looking to leave work early because of the storm. This extra service includes 13 additional eastbound trains from Penn Station between 12:55 p.m. and 3:48 p.m. Three of the extra trains would operate on the Port Jefferson Branch, six on the Babylon Branch, two on the Ronkonkoma Branch, one on the Port Washington Branch to Great Neck and one on the Far Rockaway Branch.

The extra, early-afternoon service is as follows:

Port Washington Branch to Great Neck

• 3:40 p.m. stopping Woodside, Flushing-Main St., then all stops to Great Neck

Ronkonkoma Branch:

• 12:55 p.m. stopping at Woodside, Jamaica, Mineola, Hicksville, then all stops to Ronkonkoma
• 1:58 p.m. stopping at Woodside, Jamaica, Mineola, Hicksville, then all stops to Ronkonkoma

Port Jefferson Branch to Hicksville and Huntington

• 2:09 p.m. stopping at Jamaica, Carle Place, then all stops to Huntington
• 2:25 p.m. stopping at Forest Hills, Kew Gardens, Jamaica, New Hyde Park, then all stops to Huntington
• 3:24 p.m. stopping at Jamaica, Mineola, Westbury and Hicksville

Babylon Branch

• 1:30 p.m. express to Rockville Centre, then all stops to Babylon
• 1:53 p.m. stopping at Jamaica, Rockville Centre, then all stops to Babylon
• 2:12 p.m. express to Rockville Centre, then all stops to Babylon
• 2:22 p.m. express to Lynbrook, then all stops to Babylon
• 3:00 p.m. stopping at Jamaica, Rockville Centre, then all stops to Babylon
• 3:31 p.m. express to Rockville Centre, then all stops to Babylon

Far Rockaway Branch

• 3:48 p.m. stopping at Jamaica, Locust Manor, Laurelton, Rosedale, Valley Stream, then all stops to Far Rockaway

Ronkonkoma-Greenport Service:

• After the morning rush, train service between Ronkonkoma and Greenport will be replaced with buses.

Wednesday Evening

While the LIRR will take all measures possible to keep train service operating throughout the system, to ensure customer and employee safety, the LIRR may temporarily suspend train service when snow accumulation reaches between 10 and 13 inches.

These temporary suspensions, while excess amounts of snow are removed from the track, will continue until safe and reliable service can be restored. In dealing with the storm, the LIRR will turn on its switch heaters, operate its antifreeze trains and its regular electric train cars with special scraper shoes to help reduce third rail icing. We also use heavy-duty snow removal equipment – including our special cold-air track snow blowers and track snow brooms as well as snow jets for yards. Extra LIRR personnel will be deployed throughout the railroad to assist in keeping the system up and running and helping keep customers informed of service adjustments.

During Wednesday's evening rush hour, service reductions will be implemented through canceling and combing 22 eastbound trains – 17 out of Penn Station and five out of Atlantic Terminal.

The following trains from Penn Station will be canceled/combined:

Port Washington Branch

• The 4:22 p.m. train from New York due Port Washington at 4:58 p.m. will be canceled. Customers will be accommodated by the 4:25 p.m. from New York that normally ends in Great neck but will continue to Port Washington.
• The 4:43 p.m. train from New York due Port Washington at 5:21 p.m. will be canceled. Customers will be accommodated by the 4:46 p.m. from New York that normally ends in Great Neck but will continue to Port Washington.
• The 5:11 p.m. train from New York due Port Washington 5:47 p.m. will be canceled. Customers will be accommodated by the 5:14 p.m. from New York that normally ends in Great Neck but will continue to Port Washington.
• The 5:26 p.m. train from New York due Port Washington 6:04 p.m. will be canceled. Customers will be accommodated by the 5:29 p.m. from New York that normally ends in Great Neck but will continue to Port Washington.
• The 5:50 p.m. train from New York due Great Neck at 6:19 p.m. will be canceled. Customers will be accommodated by the 5:56 p.m. from New York to Great Neck.
• The 6:11 p.m. train from New York due Port Washington 6:48 p.m. will be canceled. Customers will be accommodated by the 6:14 p.m. from New York that normally ends in Great Neck, but will continue to Port Washington.
• The 6:24 p.m. train from New York due Port Washington at 7:04 p.m. will be canceled. Customers will be accommodated by the 6:42 p.m. from New York that normally ends in Great Neck but will continue to Port Washington.

• The 7:01 p.m. train from New York due Port Washington at 7:36 p.m. will be canceled. Customers will be accommodated by the 7:14 p.m. from New York that normally ends in Great Neck but will continue to Port Washington.

Wednesday — Post Rush and Overnight, Feb. 10

The LIRR will be using temporary service suspensions for track clearing throughout the evening on Wednesday and overnight into Thursday. We expect to operate a modified train service on its primary branches after the evening rush hour and through the overnight for customers and LIRR employees.

Thursday — Morning Rush, Feb. 11

During the morning rush hour on Thursday, the LIRR's goal is to provide train service at regular intervals on our primary branches – Babylon, Ronkonkoma, Huntington, and Port Washington – to and from Penn Station; and train service between Jamaica and Atlantic Terminal.

Thursday — Evening Rush, Feb. 11

LIRR employees will be working as hard as possible to clear tracks of snow and restore service on the secondary branches, as part of the second stage of snow clearing, with the goal of providing regular interval service for the evening rush hour.

Throughout the storm, customers are advised to check on LIRR service before heading to train stations by monitoring the LIRR's website, listening to the latest news broadcasts and traffic reports and/or signing up for our E-Alerts.

For additional information, customers can also contact the LIRR's 24-hour Travel Information Center in Suffolk County at 631-231-LIRR, in Nassau County at 516-822-LIRR, or in New York City at 718-217-LIRR. The Travel Information Center's TDD telephone number for the hearing impaired is 718-558-3022.