Cortlandt station explained

Cortlandt
Style:MNRR
Style2:Hudson
Address:2 Memorial Drive, Montrose, New York
Line:Hudson Line
Other: Bee-Line Bus System: 14
Platform:1 island platform
Tracks:3
Parking:886 spaces
Opened:June 30, 1996
Accessible:yes
Zone:6
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Custom:
Shape:none
Line:none
Marker:rail
Marker-Color:
  1. 009B3A
Zoom:14

Cortlandt station is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Hudson Line, located in Montrose, New York. Trains leave for New York City every hour on weekdays, and about every 25 minutes during rush hour. It is 38.4miles from Grand Central Terminal and travel time to Grand Central is about 62 minutes.

History

Cortlandt is the second newest station on the Hudson Line (and seventh-newest on the Metro-North system). The station replaced the low-level Montrose and Crugers stations at a point midway between them on June 30, 1996.[1] Those stations were replaced as part of the last stage of expanding the Hudson Line to six-car high-level platforms. They could not be extended because of the curvature of their platforms.[2] Cortlandt is the first station north of Croton–Harmon, where electrification begins southbound.

On February 15, 2012, Metro-North completed the expansion project of the station. The new facility includes an overpass extension that ties the original station east of the tracks with a new entrance on the west side off NY 9A near the VA Hospital, new parking and a landscaped, canopy-covered, intermodal drop-off plaza. The new overpass has a spacious, heated waiting area with numerous benches and a coffee concession.[3]

Station layout

The station has one six-car-long high-level island platform.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Hershenson. Roberta. Cortlandt Welcomes New Train Station. April 12, 2011. The New York Times. September 8, 1996.
  2. Book: Transportation Research Record. 1999. Transportation Research Board, Commission on Sociotechnical Systems, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences. 9780309071031. en.
  3. Web site: February 15, 2012 . New Cortlandt Station Expansion Is Complete . Facebook . MTA Metro-North Railroad . December 12, 2011.
  4. Web site: Metro-North Railroad Track & Structures Department Track Charts Maintenance Program Interlocking Diagrams & Yard Diagrams 2015. 2015. Metro-North Railroad. January 28, 2019.