Service
On racing days, the Long Island Rail Road operates two trains to and from Belmont Park. One train originates and terminates at Pennsylvania Station with a stop at Woodside. Service for Belmont Park operates express to and from Jamaica, where connections are available to City Terminal Zone trains as well as service to other LIRR stations. The average daily ridership for the station was 100. However, budget cuts have eliminated regular service in 2010. However, full service (two trains daily) was restored for the spring/summer racing season in 2011 when the NYRA joined in to restore service.
On the day of the Belmont Stakes, a total of 18 trains depart from Pennsylvania Station to Belmont Park between 10 am and 4 pm. Returning trains begin departing Belmont Park at 4 pm and service is increased to departures at a frequency of every 15 minutes between 6:30 pm and 9 pm.
The New York & Atlantic Railway serves the park twice a week, delivering boxcars loaded with feed for the park's horses. The LIRR also stores its own gondolas, hoppers and flatcars used in work train service at the Belmont Park station.
Read more about this topic: Belmont Park (LIRR Station)
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