LIRR Offers Extra Trains for Eve of Yom Kippur

The MTA Long Island Rail Road is offering nine additional eastbound trains from Penn Station, this afternoon, between 2:08 p.m. and 3:48 p.m. for riders traveling home early in observance of Yom Kippur.

According to a statement on the MTA/LIRR website, there’ll be three additional trains on the Babylon Branch that runs through Lindenhurst, as well as three on the Port Jefferson Branch, two on the Port Washington Branch and one on the Far Rockaway Branch.

The LIRR’s extra trains departing Penn Station are:

Babylon Branch

• 2:24 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.

Port Jefferson Branch

• 2:08 p.m. stopping at Jamaica, Mineola, then all stops to Huntington.
• 2:21 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.

Port Washington Branch to Great Neck

• 3:18 p.m. stopping at Woodside, Flushing-Main Street, then all stops to Port Washington.
• 3:40 p.m. stopping at Woodside, Flushing-Main Street, then all stops to Great Neck.

Far Rockaway Branch

• 3:48 p.m. express to Locust Manor, then all stops to Far Rockaway.

For more information customers could call 511, the New York State Travel Information Line, and say Long Island Rail Road, or visit the MTA's website. Hearing-impaired customers could their preferred relay service provider or the free 711 relay to reach the MTA at 511.