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Great Neck and Port Washington Railroad

Port Washington Branch
Bombardier M7 7799 enters Flushing.jpg
Port Washington Branch train enters the Flushing Main Street station.
Overview
Type Commuter rail
System Long Island Rail Road
Status Operational
Locale Queens and Nassau County, New York, USA
Termini Woodside
Port Washington
Stations 12
Services
  Port Washington Branch
Daily ridership 46,808 (average weekday, 2006)
Operation
Opened 1854 (as Flushing Railroad)
Owner Long Island Rail Road
Operator(s) Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Technical
Track gauge 4 ft 8 12 in (1,435 mm)
Electrification 750 V (DC) Third rail
Route map

Distances shown in miles from Pennsylvania Station

Main Line & Northeast Corridor (west)
4.9 Woodside
Winfield Junction closed 1929
Main Line (east)
Elmhurst closed 1985
Corona closed 1963
West Flushing closed
8.6 Mets – Willets Point event days only
Whitestone Branch abandoned 1932
Zone 1
Zone 3
9.5 Flushing Main Street
10.3 Murray Hill
11.1 Broadway
11.7 Auburndale
12.6 Bayside
13.9 Douglaston
14.5 Little Neck
Queens
Nassau County
border
Zone 3
Zone 4
15.7 Great Neck
Manhasset Viaduct
17.2 Manhasset
18.3 Plandome
19.9 Port Washington

Distances shown in miles from Pennsylvania Station

The Port Washington Branch is an electrified two-track rail line and service owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in the U.S. state of New York. It branches north from the Main Line at Winfield Junction, just east of the Woodside station in the New York City borough of Queens, and runs roughly parallel to Northern Boulevard past Mets-Willets Point (Citi Field), Flushing, Murray Hill, Broadway, Auburndale, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck, and then crosses into Nassau County for stops in Great Neck, Manhasset, and Plandome before terminating at Port Washington.

The branch is the only LIRR service whose trains do not serve Jamaica, as it branches off the Main Line several miles northwest of that station.


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