Track Work Means Reduced LIRR Service On Babylon Branch This Weekend

If you're looking to go to the city this weekend by train, you had better double-check your schedule and plan ahead. Track work this weekend is going to affect LIRR service on the Babylon branch, with many trains being canceled during certain hours.

The Long Island Rail Road said it has to perform concrete tie installation work this weekend. As a result, one of the two tracks between Valley Stream and Freeport will be out of service from 12:35 a.m. Saturday through 3:30 a.m. Monday. That means that Babylon branch trains will be reduced from running half-hourly to hourly during certain hours.

Going eastbound, trains that leave Penn Station at 6:30 a.m., 8:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 1:30 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. will end at Jamaica Station. Eastbound customers traveling to Rockville Centre through Babylon will have alternate train service 30 minutes earlier or 30 minutes later.

Trains that leave Babylon heading westbound at 12:23 p.m., 5:23 p.m., 6:23 p.m., 7:23 p.m., 9:23 p.m. and 10:24 p.m. will be canceled. Customers will have alternate train service 30 minutes earlier or 30 minutes later.

To see the special Babylon branch weekend timetable for April 22 to 23, link here.

The work won't be completed this weekend, either. The MTA said that service will be affected for subsequent weekends, but has not said when or how yet.

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