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title: LIRR Hicksville Station Improvements Project
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# LIRR Hicksville Station Improvements Project

![LIRR Hicksville Station Improvements Project](https://www.systra.com/usa/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/03/hicksville-1-scaled.jpg)

**Hicksville Station has more than 16,000 customer trips on a typical weekday. The station features three station tracks and two elevated island platforms, with a staffed ticket office. SYSTRA provided design services to bring the platform to a state of good repair, making it ADA-compliant and safer.**

SYSTRA designed the north track siding, which involved civil/track, signals and
communications, substation and third rail, and architectural support.

This siding is used to position and/or turn trains that operate between
Hicksville and Manhattan during the morning and evening peak periods, providing
additional operational capacity, improved train service choices, and enhanced
onboard seating opportunities. It will also improve LIRR’s ability to route
trains through the congested Divide Interlocking during maintenance,
construction track outages, and train service disruptions.

To improve and deliver more reliable train service to and from Hicksville, NY,
and provide a better customer experience, Hicksville Station was completely
renovated with modernized station enhancements and upgrades. Serving more than
21,000 customers each weekday, Hicksville Station is Long Island’s busiest train
station and a central and critical hub for LIRR customers.

The project included the installation of more than 3,000 feet of new track on
the station’s north side to connect Hicksville’s track 1 to a track siding
located about a half mile west of the station platform. This connection provides
additional operational capacity, improved train service choices, and enhanced
onboard seating opportunities. SYSTRA was integral to this work, being
responsible for civil, track, signals, communications, electrical, and traction
power design and architectural support.

Extensive electrical and traction power design work involved the installation of
traction power cabling, third rail, and protection board for the new runaround
track near the station. SYSTRA prepared drawings, cable plans, specifications,
and a bill of materials for the installation of the new traction power duct bank
and developed design details for the dc traction power cable connections to
third rail. The negative return system was evaluated to determine the need for
additional impedance bonds and negative return reactors to accommodate the new
run around track. SYSTRA evaluated the existing 750 V dc, G20 traction power
substation to ensure there was adequate capacity to support the additional
tracks.

For the appropriate system design, SYSTRA developed an up-to-date traction power
system model using RAILSIM® software to determine rectifier and feeder loading
and rail-to-earth voltages under various operating scenarios. The simulations
supported the proposed design and gave the LIRR the confidence to proceed with
the final design.