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Metro-North Trains Back to Regular Schedule Friday After Viaduct Gets Temporary Brace

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For Friday, May 20, Metro-North is operating a regular weekday schedule. Customers should anticipate some residual delays due to speed restrictions on all four tracks on the Park Avenue Viaduct. See train schedules. 

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— an announcement from Metro-North (See bottom of article for Twitter feeds)

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The return to a full schedule was made possible by round-the-clock work on the part of hundreds of employees who on Thursday completed the installation of six temporary steel columns to brace a column damaged in Tuesday’s fire. Metro-North crews continue to work at the site, making other needed structural repairs to the viaduct. For the remainder of for Thursday, May 19 Metro-North Is Operating An Enhanced Saturday Schedule. 

In effect on all three lines, Thursday’s enhanced Saturday schedule provides customers with additional trains during peak travel periods and represents 75% of ridership capacity. Customers should refer to the schedules page. 
Metro-North’s connecting services (the Hudson Rail Link, Haverstraw-Ossining Ferry and Newburgh-Beacon Ferry) are operating on an enhanced Saturday schedule.

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Metro-North: Three of Four Tracks Open by Thursday Morning

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The “enhanced Saturday schedule” that Metro-North will use while the damaged Park Avenue Viaduct is repaired has more trains than a regular Saturday, providing about 75 percent of normal service on Thurday, according to the railroad. By Thursday morning, the railroad expects to have three of the four tracks in service at the spot where the fire took place, as crews continue to work on the damaged fourth and final track. Here’s most of the announcement Wednesday afternoon from Metro-North (we’ve left out a few paragraphs about Hudson Line service), followed by two Twitter feeds with ongoing updates:

UPDATE: Metro- North Announces Enhanced Saturday Schedule for Thursday, May 19

Enhanced Schedule Will Provide More Peak Period Trains For Customers Than Typical Saturday Schedule

Metro-North crews continue making progress on repairs to the railroad’s Park Avenue Viaduct that was damaged by last evening’s four alarm fire beneath the structure, allowing the railroad to expand its regular Saturday schedule for tomorrow’s commute. Thursday’s enhanced Saturday schedule provides customers with additional trains during peak travel periods and represents 75 percent of ridership capacity.  The enhanced Saturday schedule will be in effect for Thursday on all three lines. Customers should refer to the schedules page .

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Latest on Metro-North Disruption After Manhattan Fire

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The Tuesday fire in Manhattan that halted train service from Grand Central not only disrupted Wednesday morning’s commute, but threatens to do so for days to come. Commuters faced crowded trains arriving on a Saturday schedule, and sometimes, according to reports, not stopping at all at certain stations, even when scheduled. In Darien, a Planning & Zoning Commission meeting had to be cancelled when the commission couldn’t get a quorum — some members were stuck in Manhattan when the trains stopped running late Tuesday afternoon. To help keep up with the latest developments, we’ve attached to this article two Twitter feeds: One from Metro-North, the other for all tweets with #MetroNorth in them. That should have links to up-to-date information on the situation, not only from Metro-North, but from other, independent sources:
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