Last train leaves Grand Central at 1:53AM (to Stamford only)Īnd actually, remember that the first reverse-peak trains of the morning are listed as peak hour trains. Last train leaves Grand Central at 1:56AMĪlmost a 4 hour gap (and again, from New Haven is even longer)įirst train leaves Grand Central at 5:30AM (to Stamford only) Last train leaves North White Plains at 1:06AMįirst train leaves Grand Central at 5:37AM (to NWP only) Last train leaves Grand Central at 1:50AMįirst train leaves North White Plains at 4:50AM From Poughkeepsie is even longer).įirst train leaves Grand Central at 5:36AM (to Croton-Harmon only) So if you miss the 'last train', you have to wait a little less than 4 hours (and this is on the inner part of the line. Last train leaves Croton-Harmon at 12:55AM Here's the schedules of the first and last trains (by line):įirst train leaves Croton-Harmon at 4:44AM though service intervals vary according to destination and time of day”, that is at least some semblance of a 24-hour operation. If it is truly the case, as you stated, that “The railroad's hours of operation are approximately 4 AM to 3:40 AM. That, as far as I'm concerned, qualifies as a '24-hour operation.” I wish it were even more, but that is better than nothing. Sure, it would be wonderful if it were even more frequent/regular in the middle-of-the-night hours but one can't truthfully say that they will be stranded altogether until the morningtime rush hour if they don't catch the Metro North before 11 PM or 12 midnite they may have to wait to catch a 1 AM or 1:30 AM or 2 AM or 2:30 AM or 3 AM train or whatever other train but still, they don't have to wait until the morning rush hour starts. It may not run every single half-hour on the hour or every single hour on the hour, but it DOES at least run (instead of not running at all) during the time(s) between late nightime and the morningtime rush hour That is what I myself define as a '24-hour operation'. That is, based on the info you provided here (which appears to match what I'd read on my own in the past), it cannot be said that, after, say, 11 PM or 12 midnite, there are simply no trains running AT ALL until the morningtime rush hour rather, it is, in fact, the case, that one can take trains inbound to the city or outbound from the city in the middle-of-the-night hours.

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