Bedford: c.1836-1861, discontinued as station stop 1905.

Brushville: On timetable of 11/27/1837. Renamed "Queens". Discontinued 10/19/1871 with opening of "Inglewood" station one mile east at Creed Ave., Springfield  Ave. per ETT #3, eff: 6/1897.

Branch: 1837 As "Hempstead." this was  the stage connection to Hempstead. Station does not appear on timetables of 1838. Depot  probably opened in July 1839  with opening of LIRR branch to Hempstead. Depot named  "Branch" as a result. Later  named "Hempstead Branch." renamed “Mineola” on timetable of June 4, 1862.

Thompson: 6/24/1842 with opening of LIRR to that point. "Thompson" on timetable of
10/24/1862. Closed: 12/1869 and station stop relocated to Brentwood.

Suffolk Station: 7/14/1842 at Islip Ave. Appears as "North Islip" on 1861, 1862 and 1867 timetables (Art Huneke data). Closed: 1873 when Central Islip station opened further east at
Carleton Ave., Central Islip

Fire Place: 6/26/1844 or Carman's River (6/26/1844-6/1845).  Renamed Yaphank 1846.
Research: Dave Keller's Station History

Benedicts' Time LIRR published timetable 11/04/1867 Archive: Art Huneke
Note: Main line mileage from Hunters Point, LI City

Thompsons on timetables of 10/24/1862. Closed: 12/1869 and station stop relocated
to Brentwood.  North Islip on 1861, 1862 and 1867 timetables per Art Huneke data.
Closed: 1873 when Central Islip station opened further east at Carleton Ave.  Research: Dave Keller

Timetable reverse 6/29/1889

Timetable reverse 6/1892

Timetable Summer Schedule 7/01/1880 cover

Timetable Manhattan Beach 6/1884

Timetable Photos/Archive: Jerome Landesman

LIRR route map 9/10/1907

Timetable Main Line to Hicksville and Hempstead Branch
10/21/1913  Archive: Steve Melrose

Note: This 1913 timetable covers the long gone line that went from Mineola to West Hempstead.  It cut between NASSAU Tower and Mineola Station and headed south through Garden City, crossing Old Country Road and continuing south crossing Stewart Avenue, to a few hundred feet north (around Chestnut Street) of Country Life Press Station. Heading further south towards the Village of Hempstead, it veered heading southwest starting around Old Main Street in Hempstead. From there, basically straight into West Hempstead crossing Main Street, Franklin Avenue, Intersection Street, Atlantic Avenue, Hilton Avenue, Cathedral Avenue, Saint Paul's Road N, Hempstead Turnpike (Fulton Street), and Hempstead Ave. into the West Hempstead Station.   Steve Melrose

"LIRR Trains operate on Daylight Saving Time, which differs
by one hour from the Eastern Standard shown by clocks in Pennsylvania Station" notice - 5/18/1927

Parlor car Washington-Montauk timetable 6/26/1927

Through Parlor Car Service - Named Trains Hampton-Express and Montauk-Special timetable page 35  5/18/1927

Timetable Form LI-8 7/19/1948 Far Rockaway Branch
Archive: Jeff Erlitz
 

Form LI-1 World's Fair Timetable 9/17/1939
General Passenger Agent: A. H. Shaw

World's Fair Timetable map 9/17/1939

Form LI-1 Timetable 6/22/1941
General Passenger Agent: C. G. Pennington
Archive: Jerome Landesman

Timetable Montauk and Hamptons - 8/15/1957

Timetable Montauk and Hamptons back - 8/15/1957

This is among the last editions prior to the establishment of the MTA (originally MCTA) as a quasi-independent state agency and public takeover of LIRR in late 1965. At press time (May 1, 1965) the World's Fair had been open as of Wednesday, April 21, but the 1965 World's Fair schedule (and summer 1965 schedules) appeared on Sunday, May 16. The schedules here are those in effect as of May 1, 1965 (winter/spring 1965 schedules effective September 1964 or December 15, 1964). Research: Kevin Wong

Worlds Fair timetable 5/16/1965 Archive: Jeff Erlitz
Form LI 2 New York/Brooklyn to Jamaica

40 Years of LIRR Branch Timetables 1974-2014

LIRR Branch Line Timetable 50th Anniversary - First Issues Effective May 20, 1974

50 Years ago this month the LIRR issued the introductory set of eleven Branch line timetables.  The format and color coding were based on previously issued Penn Central Metropolitan Region timetables created by the MTA for the Harlem, Hudson and New Haven Lines (which formed MNCR in 1983); Harlem Line-Blue; Hudson Line-Green and New Haven Line-Red.

 The LIRR had a team of employees, including LIST's (Long Island Sunrise Trail-NRHS) Bob Sturm and Gene Collora, working behind the scenes to plan and create these new timetables which coincided with major LIRR system wide schedule changes.  The LIRR eliminated their "old-folder" large format timetables in May-June 1972 leaving only the smaller TDI station timetables for about an 18 month period as the only Public timetables issued by the LIRR.  The then-new 1974 Branch timetables filled a need for more informative schedule information.  On the front there is a line map showing stations that were covered in each Branch Timetable.

The eleven timetable forms along with their color in order are:
Form 1 - Port Washington Branch (Scarlet Red): Woodside, Elmhurst, Shea Stadium, Flushing to Port Washington
Form 2 - Port Jefferson Branch (Medium Blue); New Hyde Park and Hicksville to Huntington and Port Jefferson
Form 3 - Ronkonkoma Branch (Purple) Grumman and Bethpage to Ronkonkoma
Form 4 - Oyster Bay Branch (Lime Green) East Williston to Oyster Bay
Form 5 - Hempstead Branch (Beige) Union Hall Street, Hollis, Queens Village and Bellerose to Hempstead
Form 6 - Far Rockaway Branch (Brown) Locust Manor, Laurelton, Rosedale and Valley Stream to Far Rockaway
Form 7 - Babylon Branch (Turquoise Green) Covers 26 stations: Rockville Centre to Babylon; Bay Shore to Patchogue and Bellport, Mastic-Shirley, Center Moriches and Speonk
Form 8 - Long Beach Branch (Orange) Lynbrook and Center Avenue to Long Beach
Form 9 - West Hempstead Branch (Light Blue) St. Albans, Springfield Gardens and Westwood to West Hempstead
Form 10 - City Terminal Zone (Gray) Jamaica to New York Penn Station, Hunterspoint Avenue, Long Island City and Jamaica to Flatbush Avenue Brooklyn
Form 11 - Eastern Long Island (Turquoise Green 1974 only; Black begins in 1975) covering rail and Road N' Rail Bus: Montauk Branch - Westhampton and Montauk; Main Line - Holtsville, Riverhead and Greenport

The LIRR Branch timetables would eventually end up being issued for 46 years 1974 to 2020.  The last issues to the General Public were dated March 19 to May 17, 2020.  May 18 to July 12, 2020 were printed but not distributed.   Research/Timetables: Mike McEnaney, Archivist Railroad Museum of Long Island Library (RMLI)
 

Over time there were changes to these Branch Timetables, for example:

October 7, 1974 - Bellport to Speonk moved to the Eastern Long Island timetable.
1978 - Bay Shore to Patchogue moved to the Eastern Long Island timetable.
1983 - Montauk Branch timetable was created and the Ronkonkoma to Greenport service was placed in the Ronkonkoma Branch timetable.
January 1988 - New Hyde Park, Merillon Avenue and Mineola were placed in the Oyster Bay Branch timetable (until 1992?).

In the 1980s, in particular, the LIRR began to regularly print special branch timetables for track work and other LIRR projects and additionally beginning during the late 1980's Special Timetables began to be issued, for example  the NY Mets Shea Stadium and Belmont Park races.  During the early to mid 1990's the LIRR experimented with different printing and formats in the Branch Timetables and by the late 1990's the current format with black and white printing and some use of the line color became standard.  During these years the Montauk Branch timetable began to use teal as its color replacing black and the folder numbers were shifted between the Montauk Branch (becoming Form 10) and the City Terminal Zone (becoming Form 11).

The TDI Station Timetables (TDI Publications, Inc. 16 East 42nd Street, NY prior TDI Publications, Inc., Grand Central Terminal, NY) have also underwent changes of their own:  Back before December 1968 they were issued quarterly with seasonal colors: Blue-Winter; Spring-Brown; Summer-Green and Fall-Red and with the December 1968 issues Dashing Dan was dropped for the MTA M logo and all issues from that point until sometime in 1974 - when they began to be issued in the matching Branch Line timetable color - they were all in blue - and for about a two year stretch beginning in mid 1972 - when the older LIRR timetable folders were discontinued - these were the only timetables that were available to the public.   Research: Gary Farkash

The Main Line (Calverton-Riverhead-Greenport) and Montauk Branch (east of Speonk) had just TWO trains each way in the late 1950's/early 1960's era outside of the Summer season seven days/week before Road n' Rail bus service began in 1962.

Research: Mike McEnaney  Archive: RMLI

Timetable Form 20 - Calverton to Greenport - 6/21/1958

This was the first time in LIRR history that the Cannonball departed from Penn station. Prior to this date on the timetable, the Cannonball had always departed from Hunterspoint Avenue.  The first stop after Penn was Westhampton, it did not stop at Jamaica as in prior years.  I was on that 1st train from Penn in one of the 2 Hampton's Reserve cars. Reserve seating and waiter/waitress service at your seat. No standees in the 2 Hampton's Reserve cars.  The Cannonball was soon becoming  too popular and crowded. One train had 1,800 passengers with 1200 seats! The LIRR had to limit the number of passengers on the Cannonball to twelve cars and two DM locomotives. This year was the 1st time since WWII that the LIRR did NOT run the Cannonball.  Archive: NRHS-LIST  Steve Quigley

Special Timetable - Greenport Tall Ships Challenge
7/04/2015 Archive: Kevin Wong

The LIRR discontinued the printing of Branch timetables May 16th-July 12th, 2020. The last issues of all 11 forms to the public were dated March 9th-May 17th, 2020.

With the implementation of the Essential Service Schedules and cutbacks timetable printing was discontinued for all 11 timetable forms and for any special schedule and service changes.

MNCR also discontinued printing their four timetable forms: Harlem, Hudson, New Haven and Port Jervis/Pascack Valley Line timetables around the same time during 2020. However...The LIRR printed - but did not distribute - timetables dated May 18 to July 12, 2020 which would have been the regular Summer 2020 schedule changes.  LIST-NRHS has a limited quantity of these rare timetables available. (sale or donation to LIST-NRHS)  This change ended 46 years of LIRR printed Branch timetables...May 20, 1974 were the first issues. Info: Mike McEnaney

The platforms have a lower sign so that people on the lower deck can see what station the train is at. One at standing eye level (normal), and one on the bottom.  Info: Matt Kobel  3/2025

-Babylon will be green.
-Long Beach will be orange.
-Far Rockaway will be brown.
-West Hempstead will be light blue.
-Ronkonkoma will be purple.
-Oyster Bay will be neon green
-Hempstead will be mustard yellow.
-Port Washington will be red.
-City Terminal Zone will be gray/black.
-Belmont Park will probably be the same as City Terminal Zone.