LIRR logs 60 late or canceled trains on October 9, 2026
LIRR's delay verification data lists 60 late, canceled or partially canceled trains on October 9, 2026. The source data runs through October 14, 2026.
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LIRR records 60 late or canceled trains on October 9, 2026
LIRR's delay verification data lists 60 late, canceled or partially canceled trains on October 9, 2026, according to MTA open data. The source data runs through October 14, 2026.
8 of those trains were canceled, partially canceled or terminated.
The longest recorded delay that day was 71 minutes.
October 9 compared with the 28 days before and the previous 8 Fridays
The daily average over the previous 28 days, from September 11 to October 8, 2026, was 46.4 trains per day.
The average for the previous 8 Fridays was 58.1 trains per day.
The October 9, 2026 count of 60 trains was higher than both of those averages.
Montauk branch leads LIRR late and canceled trains on October 9, 2026
The Montauk branch had the most affected trains that day, 21 in total.
Other branches followed with smaller counts in the same data.
- Babylon: 7 late trains on October 9, 2026.
- Huntington: 7 late trains on October 9, 2026.
- Oyster Bay: 7 late trains on October 9, 2026.
- Port Jefferson: 5 late trains on October 9, 2026.
- Ronkonkoma: 5 late trains on October 9, 2026.
Montauk records for October 9, 2026 by status
The source rows for October 9, 2026 list 14 late Montauk trains, 4 fully canceled Montauk trains and 3 partially canceled Montauk trains.
Babylon, Huntington, Oyster Bay, Port Jefferson and Ronkonkoma also appear in those same October 9, 2026 rows with late trains.
Computed figures in this story (7)
Each value's source, query and retrieval time are recorded. Every number in the text maps to one of the values below.
- O1 LIRR's delay verification data lists 60 late, canceled or partially canceled trains on October 9, 2026
- O2 8 of them were canceled or partially canceled or terminated
- O3 the daily average over the previous 28 days (September 11 to October 8, 2026) was 46.4
- O4 the average for the previous 8 Fridays was 58.1
- O5 the Montauk branch had the most, 21
- O6 the longest recorded delay was 71 minutes
- O7 the data of the source 'MTA LIRR Delay Verification: Beginning 2010 (data.ny.gov wkbk-y3dt)' runs through October 14, 2026
How this story was made
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