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Re: LIRR station rehab: (13 Stations) Station Platform Railing Replacement |
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Posted by R30A on Thu Aug 21 15:43:04 2014, in response to Re: LIRR station rehab: (13 Stations) Station Platform Railing Replacement, posted by Mitch45 on Thu Aug 21 14:46:04 2014. I will attempt to answer that based on the public schedules, however such is very difficult for a number of reasons. The first of which is that there is in fact, no Far Rockaway train at 9:00 AM. Train 2812 passes through Cedarhurst at 827, followed by 2814 at 9:24. I will assume you are referring to 2812 as it does have an inbound train relatively close to it at Cedarhurst, train 2825, at 8:30. Going from the outer end of the line, in, Reasons I would think of for the train arrive at 8:27 at Cedarhurst:1: Far Rockaway terminal operations- Perhaps a train is pulled out of the rather small Far Rockaway yard to become 2827, the 8:54 out of Far Rockaway in the minutes before 2812 arrives. This could block the terminal for incoming trains. If one wanted to push the train even earlier, they would risk running afoul of train 2823 (the 8:19)at Cedarhurst, which considering the whole point of this is to avoid such meets, seems counterproductive. Furthermore, 2812 could become 2827 which could prevent 2812 from arriving later if one wants any reasonable recovery time for the train. 2: Moving down the line, the junctions east of Valley Stream could easily mandate 2812's schedule(It arrives at VS at 8:15.). Perhaps Babylon or Montauk trains are using the Atlantic branch between Jamaica and Valley Stream at that time. Such trains would be blocked by the 8:16 Long Beach (train 821) As they cross over to the Montauk branch. Both train 18 and 22 could be scheduled to take the Atlantic branch, and would fairly closely bracket 2812. 3: Atlantic - Jamaica. 2812 is an Atlantic Terminal train. if it were pushed earlier, it would end up stuck behind train 812 to Long Beach. If it were pushed later, it would end up blocking 710 to Hempstead. If it were pushed earlier, it would force Penn Station and Woodside passengers from train 2008 to take an earlier connecting train out of Penn. If it were pushed later, it would force Atlantic terminal passengers for train 2008 to Ronkonkoma to take an earlier connecting train. It could also easily gum up Jamaica to move it in either direction, and Jamaica is gummed up enough as it is. |
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