Ground level (most common, platforms accessible via ramps and/or staircases).The Long Island Rail Road has four types of station designs: The LIRR has three trunk lines each branch begins eastbound trips out of New York City via one of these lines. Ronkonkoma (electric) / Greenport (diesel) Huntington (electric) / Port Jefferson (diesel) Jamaica and the two employees-only stations are not included in the station counts below.
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There are 10 total services, plus one additional seasonal service (the Belmont Park Branch). This list shows the western and eastern terminals of each LIRR service. The Huntington, Ronkonkoma and Babylon stations provide transfers between electric train service and diesel train service within their respective branches, the Port Jefferson, Ronkonkoma/Greenport and Babylon/ Montauk branches. Other inter-branch transfer stations include Woodside, Mineola, Hicksville, Valley Stream, Lynbrook and Babylon. Jamaica is a major transfer station between branches, as it provides the interchange from the eastern Long Island stations to the western New York terminals and vice versa.
The six stations on the Main Line east of Ronkonkoma get very limited week-round trains, and are often used for recreation rather than commuting. Hunterspoint Avenue and Long Island City are open only on weekdays. Two stations are open seasonally: Belmont Park and Mets–Willets Point in addition, the Pinelawn station exclusively serves cemeteries in its area and is thus served during daytime hours. (Not included in this count are two additional stations that serve employees of the LIRR: Hillside Facility and Boland's Landing). The system currently has 124 stations on eleven rail lines called "branches". Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan is the actual westernmost station of the Long Island Rail Road and its busiest station. With 324 passenger route-miles, it spans Long Island from Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn to Montauk station at the tip of the southern fork. Serving 301,763 passengers per day as of 2007 and 88.5 million riders for the year of 2008, it is the busiest commuter railroad in the United States. Its operator is the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York. The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) is a commuter railway system serving all four counties of Long Island, with one station in the Manhattan borough of New York City in the U.S. Schematic diagram of Long Island Rail Road services and stations