Another Perfect Rush!

Perfect rush hours are a very rare occurrence.  Before Thursday, September 26's pefect AM rush, we hadn't seen the LIRR bat 1.000 in months.  With that in mind, I was shocked to hear earlier this evening that the LIRR had another perfect AM rush last Tuesday, October 1.

The repeat performance comes just five days after the 9/26 rush hour.  This time, there were a lot more late trains during the rest of the day (41 late or canceled trains instead of just 11), but nonetheless, every AM peak train arrived at its destination within 5 minutes and 59 seconds of its scheduled arrival time.

At the risk of having to stitch together four or five sections of the delayed trains table into one huge, long figure, I'll only provide a snapshot of the top portion of the table.  Here we can see that the first couple trains of the morning were reported late, then it jumps all the way to train 1618 in the Midday off-peak.  If this link works as I expect it to, you should be able to view the full list of trains right here.

With two perfect rushes in less than the week what could the LIRR possibly do to surprise us next.  It certainly has been good to not have any catastrophes lately.

Hey, maybe if it's nice and sunny next week the LIRR can aim to have a perfect day!  But I'll believe that when I see it.