Port Washington Branch

Port Washington Branch
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 1⁄2 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 This diagram:

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.