Metro-North Labor Day Wknd Service Info
Here is the service plan for the Metro-North for the upcoming Labor Day Weekend:
It’s the last big weekend of summer and MTA Metro-North Railroad is ready to take you away with 16 extra getaway trains on the Friday before the Labor Day Weekend.
On Friday, September 2, leaving Grand Central Terminal in the early afternoon, there are four extra trains on the Hudson Line, four extra trains on the Harlem Line and eight extra trains on the New Haven Line.
In the late PM peak, after most people are long gone, nine trains are cancelled.
Saturday and Sunday trains will operate on a regular weekend schedule. Also on Sunday is the Golden Apple Bicycle Tour in Goldens Bridge, NY. Metro-North is suspending its requirement that people have bike permits all day on all Harlem Line trains. The railroad also is waiving its limit on the number of bicycles that can be aboard trains leaving Grand Central between 5:40 AM and 8:46 AM and leaving Goldens Bridge between 12:28 PM and 6:28 PM
On Monday, Metro-North trains will be operating on a holiday schedule.
Also, for folks returning to New York City Monday, there will be three extra inbound trains on the New Haven Line from New Haven arriving in the late afternoon and evening.
All extra trains are shown in the current public timetable.
Here is a summary of changes to connecting services on Friday September 2:
Hudson Rail Link will operate a peak level of buses beginning with the 3:20PM train from Grand Central with normal service for the remainder of the evening.
Haverstraw-Ossining Ferry will operate an early ferry trip to meet the 2:54PM train from Grand Central, which arrives in Ossining at 3:39PM. The 5:57PM and 6:20PM trains will not operate. Instead, a 6:00PM train from Grand Central, which arrives Ossining at 6:51PM, will operate and be met by the ferry.
Newburgh-Beacon Ferry will have early ferry trips meeting trains departing from Grand Central at: 2:50PM, 3:30PM and 4:05PM. The ferry meeting the 4:10PM train from New York will operate approximately 10 minutes late. The 5:31PM train from Grand Central will instead leave at 5:34PM, arriving Beacon at 6:53PM. There will be normal service for the remainder of the evening.
Other connecting services will operate on a normal schedule on Friday.
On Labor Day, Monday September 5, connecting services will not operate except for the Tappan Zee Express, which will operate on a Saturday schedule.
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