Minor Metro-North Schedules Take Effect on
Sunday, September 30
Schedule Changes Includes Enhanced Holiday Service
Metro-North Railroad announced that minor schedule adjustments to certain Harlem, Hudson, New Haven Line trains, as well as Pascack Valley and Port Jervis Line trains, will take effect on Sunday, September 30.
The slight adjustment to train schedules will improve connection times. As part of this schedule adjustment, Metro-North will offer extra “Fall Foliage” trains and provide increased service for the upcoming holiday season.
Details of the changes by line are as follows:
Hudson Line
- Extra “Fall Foliage” trains will operate between New York, Beacon and Poughkeepsie on Saturday, October 13, 20 and 27.
Harlem Line
- Five trains have schedule adjustments of 1 or 2 minutes to provide consistent trip times and to provide standard connection times.
New Haven Line
- The 3:20 p.m. train from New Haven departs 2 minutes earlier and adds a stop at Green’s Farms to accommodate a change in the school day at Green’s Farms Academy.
Pascack Valley Line
- The 8:59 a.m. train and 10:49 a.m. train from Spring Valley have connecting trains from Secaucus Junction to New York Penn Station that arrive at Penn Station 4 and 5 minutes later.
Port Jervis
- The 7:44 a.m. train and 11:30 a.m. train from Port Jervis have connecting trains from Secaucus Junction to New York Penn Station that arrives at Penn Station 4 and 11 minutes later.
Holiday Service
- Shoppers’ Specials will be operated on Saturdays and Sundays between November 17 and December 23, 2018. There will be 10 additional New Haven Line and two additional Hudson Line trains on Saturdays and four additional New Haven Line trains on Sundays.
- Christmas Day Metro-North will operate an amended service with hourly local trains to and from Croton/Harmon, North White Plains and Stamford and hourly trains to and from Poughkeepsie, Southeast and New Haven
- New Year’s Eve we will operate a Sunday schedule, with additional trains and capacity added inbound in the afternoon and evening and additional trains outbound overnight into New Year’s Day
- New Year’s Day we will operate an amended schedule with hourly local trains to and from Croton/Harmon, North White Plains and Stamford and hourly trains to and from Poughkeepsie, Southeast and New Haven, with an additional six mid-day outer New Haven Line trains to accommodate heavy ridership
- On Martin Luther King Day we will operate an expanded Saturday service, with 14 additional Harlem Line trains, 13 additional New Haven Line trains and three additional Hudson Line trains.
- The half-hourly Harlem Line trains which were truncated to Crestwood in support of the White Plains Enhanced Station Initiative will be reinstated to North White Plains on the Friday after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Martin Luther King Day and Presidents’ Day.
The next schedule change for the Hudson, Harlem and New Haven lines will be effective April 14, 2019. New Jersey Transit plans to issue a new schedule for the Pascack Valley and Port Jervis Lines effective October 14, 2018. There are no changes to schedule times at New York State stations or Hoboken on either the Pascack Valley or Port Jervis Lines. One Port Jervis Line train will have its stopping pattern changed at stations within New Jersey, and there will be minor adjustments to schedules of connecting trains on the Northeast Corridor between Secaucus Junction and New York Penn Station.