A Perfect Morning Rush!

It doesn't happen very often, but on the morning of last Thursday, September 26, the LIRR had it's first perfect rush hour in a very long time.  Thanks to all the stars aligning, every train in the morning rush and all but one train in the evening rush arrived at their final destination within 5 minuets and 59 seconds of its scheduled arrival time.  This comes less than a month after a series of disruptions caused some of the worst AM Peak OTP numbers seen in years, and it's nice to see that the LIRR can actually pull it together on occasions for its passengers.

Below is a listing of every late train on 9/26.  Normally, this list is three or four times as long, but for this date, there were only 11 trains late the entire day.  The Delayed/Canceled Train information on the MTA's Website is delayed a week, and I was just alerted this morning that the LIRR had accomplished such a feat, so that's why we're just finding out about this now.

Almost all of the late trains happened in the off-peak period.  The AM peak on this day saw not a single late train, and the PM peak would have been perfect too if it wasn't for train 658, one of those pesky Dual Mode trains to Port Jefferson, showing up 17 minutes late.

Train 658 also had the single worst delay for this date, with every train that arrived late being less than 17 minutes late (which is also very good).  A total of just 121 delay minutes was incurred.

Now you may be saying even 11 trains is too many to be delayed.  You may be right, but these days we're happy at even the smallest breaks we can catch sometimes!