Great Neck Pocket Track

With all the attention given to the East Side and Third Track projects, it's easy to overlook some smaller thing going on. Here's a line from an email I just got:

Starting today and continuing thru Fri. 11/18, the 5:29pm train from Penn Station to Great Neck is canceled to support work on the new Great Neck Pocket Track.

Pocket track is being extended, with new switches installed. All signals in Neck Interlocking as well as Port Washington will be RAS (Reduced Aspect Signals).

So this where the Great Neck pocket track is ? (July 1981)

Did some map exploring: Mapillary is the Winner as follows:
Google: maps are super cluttered the Great Neck map outdated
Bing: doesn’t show true track lines
MapQuest Clear maps, but like Bing via track lines not defined

Here we go: [/img] https://www.mapillary.com/app/?lat=40.7 ... menu=false

Newkirk: I would assume east of MP14, let others chime in...

The pocket track begins just east of Great Neck and extends to (just west of) the Manhasset viaduct at East Shore Rd.

AC - since you are the OP: There is Saturday-Sunday track work outages on the Port Washington Branch between
Bayside and Port Washington for three weekends - November 5-6; 12-13 and 19-20 with alternate bus service.
This is primarily to support the Great Neck track work - PW timetable effective November 5 to 20, 2022
https://new.mta.info/agency/long-island ... timetables
(download special PW Timetable PDF at bottom of intro page)
I added this mention and link in case anyone was unaware of the PW branch changes -
MACTRAXX

How many trains can the pocket track hold?