Metro-North To Make Improvements To Port Jervis Line

MTA Metro-North Railroad announced Tuesday that crews will be out in force making comprehensive improvements to the Port Jervis Line beginning Monday, April 9, and continuing through Friday, May 4. During this period, Metro-North crews will undertake an important rock slope remediation project, inspecting and reinforcing the rock slopes adjacent to the tracks between Port Jervis and Ramsey Route 17 to ensure that they’re free of any loose rocks and brush that could fall on to the tracks and cause delays.

Elsewhere along the line, crews will replace timbers at the Pond Brook Bridge, which is south of Sloatsburg, and renew railroad ties.

As a result of these improvements, buses will substitute for weekday off-peak trains between Port Jervis and Suffern beginning on Monday, April 9, and continuing through Friday, May 4, as well as on the weekends of April 14-15 and April 28-29.

Service details are below:

Weekdays to Orange County

Buses will substitute for trains beginning with the 8:28 a.m. departure from Hoboken. Train service resumes with the 4:08 p.m. departure from Hoboken. Customers for all stations from Sloatsburg through Port Jervis will be able to connect with buses at Ramsey Route 17.

Buses will depart Ramsey Route 17 approximately five minutes after the connecting train arrives and travel directly to each Port Jervis Line station.

Customers may view the weekday busing schedule here.

Weekdays to Hoboken

Buses will substitute for trains beginning with the 9:26 a.m. departure from Port Jervis. Train service resumes with the 9:27 p.m. train from Port Jervis.

Buses will depart stations at the scheduled train time and travel to Ramsey Route 17, where customers will connect with continuing regularly scheduled train service.

Customers may view the weekday busing schedule here.

Weekends to Orange County: April 14-15, 28-29

Buses will substitute for trains beginning Saturdays with the 9:21 a.m. train from Hoboken and continue through Sundays until the 12:40 a.m. train from Hoboken on Mondaymornings. Orange County-bound buses will depart Ramsey Route 17 Station approximately five minutes after the connecting train arrives and travel directly to each Port Jervis Line station.

Two connecting morning trains will leave Hoboken and New York, Penn Station 20 minutes earlier than regularly scheduled trains:

• The train normally scheduled to depart Hoboken at 9:21 a.m. will leave 20 minutes earlier, at 9:01 a.m., and the New York connecting train will depart Penn Station at 8:51 a.m. instead of the usually scheduled 9:14 a.m.
• The train normally scheduled to depart Hoboken at 11:21 a.m. will leave 20 minutes earlier, at 11:01 a.m., and the New York connecting train will depart Penn Station at 10:54 a.m., instead of the usually scheduled 11:14 a.m.

The 4:04 p.m. train from Hoboken will be cancelled between Hoboken and Suffern. The 1:19 p.m. train from Hoboken will add a stop at Ramsey Route 17.

Customers may view the weekend busing schedule here.

Weekends to Hoboken: April 14-15, 28-29

Buses will substitute for trains beginning with the train normally departing from Port Jervis at 4:45 a.m. Saturday, and will continue through Sunday; service resumes with the train departing Port Jervis at 3:50 a.m. on Monday.

Buses will depart stations at the scheduled train departure times and travel to Ramsey Route 17, where customers will transfer to trains. Note: The 8:47 a.m. and 6:52 p.m. trains from Suffern to Hoboken will be cancelled. For service, customers should board the next available train at Ramsey Route 17. In addition, the 4:32 p.m. train departing Suffern will stop at Ramsey Route 17.

Customers may view the weekend busing schedule here.

Photo credit: Sean Roach.