There are 124 stations on the LIRR, and more than of track on its two lines to the two forks of the island and eight major branches.

For much of its history the LIRR was a money loser, but in 1900 the Pennsylvania Railroad ( PRR ) bought a controlling interest as part of its plan for direct access to Manhattan which commenced on September 8, 1910.

By the end of the Second World War, however, the downturn in the railroad industry and dwindling profits caused the PRR to relinquish the LIRR from its payroll.

The LIRR is one of the few railroads that has survived as an intact company from its original charter to the present day.

In the late 2010s, the LIRR intends to start service to Grand Central Terminal via the East Side Access project ; provision was made for this route on the lower level of the 63rd Street Tunnel under the East River, which carries the New York City Subway's IND 63rd Street Line ( train ) on its upper level.

The LIRR chose the name Greenlawn for its station, apparently to project an idyllic rural / suburban image and foster resort travel to the beaches in Centerport.

During the 1993 summer excursion season the LIRR presented a dinner theater mystery, Murder on the Montauk Express, on its premier Friday evening train to the resorts of the Hamptons and Montauk.

At the same time the PRR was building its Pennsylvania Station and electrified approaches, served by the PRR's lines in New Jersey and the Long Island Rail Road ( LIRR ).

By mutual agreement trains of the BB & CI operated on the LIRR to its terminal at Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues, provided a much better connection to Downtown Brooklyn and ferries to Manhattan.

LIRR trains also operated to Brighton Beach from Flatbush and Atlantic and from its own terminal in Long Island City, with ferry access to Midtown Manhattan.

* At the end of the 1882 summer season, the LIRR abrogated its agreement to allow Brighton trains to access its Flatbush Avenue terminal and beginning with the 1883 summer season, only BF & CI trains operated between Bedford Terminal and Brighton Beach.

On the south side of the station, a ramp connects the mezzanine and the northbound side platform to a footbridge, known as the Passarelle Boardwalk, which passes over Corona Yard and the Mets – Willets Point station of the LIRR Port Washington Branch, on its way to the National Tennis Center.

The area is part of Brooklyn Community Board 17 As with many Neighborhoods in New York City the borders of East Flatbush are subjective, but its northern border is roughly at Empire Boulevard and East New York Avenue east of East 91st Street, its southern border is in the vicinity of the LIRR Bay Ridge Branch, its eastern border is roughly at East 98th Street and its western border is roughly at New York Avenue.

In March 2010, the New York Attorney General's Office announced that the LIRR had agreed to appoint an independent examiner and implement other reforms to address abuses of the occupational disability benefits by its retirees and to help ensure that benefits are available only to those who truly are disabled.

In 1878, the Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island Railway established its northern terminal with a connection to the LIRR at the same location.

In the mid-1980s, Budd reorganized its rail operations under the name Transit America, this name appearing on the builderplates of the Baltimore / Miami cars and Chicago's later order of 2600-series cars ( but not the LIRR / MNCR M-3s ).

The LIRR, however, gained control of the New York and Manhattan Beach Railway, a competitor of the BF & CI, and breached its agreement to provide equal access to the Flatbush Avenue terminal.

Connections are available to the LIRR, NJ Transit, and Amtrak at Pennsylvania Station and to PATH at its 33rd Street station.

LIRR trains travel westward towards Babylon and New York City, and eastward toward Montauk.

The Long Island Rail Road or LIRR is a commuter rail system serving the length of Long Island, New York, stretching from Manhattan to the easternmost tip of Suffolk County, New York.

The station continues as a completely underground operation ( serving Amtrak, New Jersey Transit and LIRR ) and is the busiest intercity railroad station in the United States.

* 1993 – The Long Island Rail Road massacre: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York.

The current LIRR logo combines the circular MTA logo with the text Long Island Rail Road, and appears on the sides of trains.

It is reached via the Amtrak-owned East River Tunnels ( the only LIRR-used trackage not owned by the LIRR ) from the Main Line in Long Island City.

Long Island City ( LIRR station ) | Long Island City station and yard

** Hicksville ( LIRR station ), Long Island Rail Road station in Hicksville, New York

The MTA Long Island Rail Road ( LIRR ) provides race-day-only passenger service to Belmont Park from Jamaica and Penn Station.

The southern border is the boundary of the Town of North Hempstead with the Town of Hempstead, roughly coinciding with Atlantic Avenue and the Main Line of the Long Island Railroad ( LIRR ).

Valentine Hicks, son-in-law of nationally famous abolitionist and Quaker preacher Elias Hicks, and eventual president of the Long Island Railroad bought land in the village in 1834 and turned it into a station stop on the LIRR in 1837.

South Farmingdale is served by the Farmingdale ( LIRR station ) on the Ronkonkoma Branch of the Long Island Rail Road ( LIRR ).

Bay Shore is a stop on the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Rail Road ( LIRR ).

Formerly known as Half Way Hollow Hills, West Deer Park ( 1875 ), and Wyandance ( 1893 ), the area of scrub oak and pine barrens south of the southern slope of Half Hollow terminal moraine was named Wyandanch in 1903 by the Long Island Rail Road ( LIRR ) to honor Chief Wyandanch and end confusion between travelers getting off at the West Deer Park and Deer Park railroad stations.

ft facility on Long Island Avenue near the LIRR station, which serves about 100 pre-schoolers.

* Jamaica ( LIRR station ), a station on the Long Island Rail Road

Mr. Ferguson boarded the third car of the east-bound Long Island Rail Road ( LIRR ) commuter train from Penn Station to Hicksville, along with more than 80 other passengers.

** Hollis ( LIRR station ), the Long Island Railroad station

** Inwood ( LIRR station ), a Long Island Rail Road station

LIRR electric service began in 1905 on the Atlantic Branch from downtown Brooklyn past Jamaica, and in June 1910 on the branch to Long Island City, part of the main line to Penn Station.

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The Island Park LIRR station provides commuters with a direct link to New York City.

Exceptions in this region include bilevel passenger rail cars that run on the Long Island Rail Road ( LIRR ), New Jersey Transit ( NJ Transit ), and Boston's MBTA Commuter Rail ( MBTA ), all of which were built to unique designs to clear specific structure gauge problems on those systems.