Seasonal & Holidays
LIRR Adding Trains to Montauk for Annual St. Patrick's Parade
There will be three extra trains to accommodate guests.
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In order to accommodate the guests attending the annual St. Patrick’s Parade in Montauk, one of the most popular parades in the area, the MTA Long Island Rail Road will be running extra trains to the oceanfront village on parade day, Sunday, March 22.
The festivities will start at 10 a.m. with the parade set to kick off down Main Street at 11:30 a.m.
To ensure that all LIRR customers arrive safely in Montauk and return home safely later that day, no beverages of any kind will be allowed aboard Montauk trains, according to a press release from the MTA.
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The MTA Police will strictly enforce this rule by confiscating all beverages, alcoholic or non-alcoholic, opened or unopened, they find on trains.
There will be two extra eastbound trains in the morning and one extra westbound train in the afternoon to accommodate customers attending the parade.
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Extra Eastbound Service to Montauk St. Patrick’s Parade
• The 7:10 a.m. train from Jamaica will be stopping at Babylon at 7:46 a.m., Bay Shore at 7:52 a.m., Sayville at 8:03 a.m., Patchogue at 8:11 a.m., Bellport at 8:18 a.m., Mastic-Shirley at 8:25 a.m., Speonk at 8:42 a.m., Westhampton at 8:48 a.m., Hampton Bays at 8:58 a.m., Southampton at 9:08 a.m., Bridgehampton at 9:16 a.m., East Hampton at 9:26 a.m., Amagansett at 9:31 a.m. and Montauk at 9:51 a.m.
• The 8:56 AM train from Babylon will be stopping at Bay Shore at 9:02 a.m., Islip at 9:06 a.m., Great River at 9:09 a.m., Oakdale at 9:13 a.m., Sayville at 9:18 a.m., Patchogue at 9:25 a.m., Bellport at 9:30 a.m., Mastic-Shirley at 9:37 a.m., Speonk at 9:58 a.m., Westhampton at 10:04 a.m., Hampton Bays at 10:14 a.m., Southampton at 10:24 a.m., Bridgehampton at 10:32 a.m., East Hampton at 10:42 a.m., Amagansett at 10:47 a.m. and Montauk at at 11:07 a.m.
These trains are additions to regular Montauk trains that depart from Jamaica at 8:10 a.m., 10:10 a.m. and 12:10 p.m.
Extra Westbound Service from Montauk St. Patrick’s Parade
• A 1:31 p.m. departure is being added to the regular trains that depart at 3:30 p.m., 5:35 p.m. and 7:33 p.m.
For more information, customers should consult the Special Timetable for the Montauk Branch on Sunday, March 22 available at terminals and branch stations and at www.mta.info. Customers can also call 511, the State Travel Information line, and say: Long Island Rail Road.
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