Port Washington Branch

Port Washington Branch
Port Washington Branch train enters the Plandome station.
Overview
Status	Operational
Owner	Long Island Rail Road
Locale	Queens and Nassau County, New York, USA
Termini	Woodside Port Washington
Stations	13
Service
Type	Commuter rail
System	Long Island Rail Road
Services	Port Washington Branch
Operator(s)	Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Daily ridership	46,808 (average weekday, 2006)
Ridership	9,928,915 (annual ridership, 2023)[1]
History
Opened	1854 (as Flushing Railroad)
Technical
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
Electrification	750 V (DC) Third rail
Route map Show interactive map Legend West Side Yard Northeast Corridor to Washington, D.C. 0.0 mi 0 km Penn Station Grand Central East River Tunnels 3.7 mi 1.8 mi Main Line to Long Island City Sunnyside Yard Northeast Corridor to Boston South 3.1 mi 5 km Woodside ​ Winfield Junction (closed) Main Line toward Jamaica Elmhurst (closed) Corona (closed) West Flushing (closed) 6.7 mi 10.8 km Mets–Willets Point ​ Whitestone Branch Zone 1 Zone 3 7.5 mi 12.1 km Flushing–Main Street ​ 8.4 mi 13.5 km Murray Hill 9.2 mi 14.8 km Broadway 9.9 mi 15.9 km Auburndale 10.8 mi 17.4 km Bayside 12.1 mi 19.5 km Douglaston 12.7 mi 20.4 km Little Neck Queens Nassau Zone 3 Zone 4 13.8 mi 22.2 km Great Neck Manhasset Viaduct 15.4 mi 24.8 km Manhasset 16.5 mi 26.6 km Plandome 18.1 mi 29.1 km Port Washington [2] This diagram: view talk edit Show route diagram map

The Port Washington Branch is an electrified, mostly double-tracked 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 the former Winfield Junction station, 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.^[3][4]

The Port Washington Branch is the only LIRR branch to not serve Jamaica, a major LIRR transportation hub, as it branches off the Main Line at Winfield Junction, several miles northwest of Jamaica. Thus, passengers seeking to switch to other LIRR services without going into Manhattan must instead transfer at Woodside station.