Croton Falls station explained

Croton Falls
Style:MNRR
Style2:Harlem
Address:5 Front Street, Croton Falls, New York
Coordinates:41.3479°N -73.6622°W
Line:Harlem Line
Other:Putnam Transit

Croton Falls Shuttle

Platform:1 island platform
Tracks:2
Electrified:1984
700V (DC) third rail
Parking:202 spaces
Opened:June 1, 1847[1]
Rebuilt:1870, 1910, 1984
Accessible:yes
Zone:7
Other Services Header:Former services
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Custom:
Shape:none
Line:none
Marker:rail
Marker-Color:
  1. 0039A6
Zoom:14

Croton Falls station is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line, located in North Salem, New York.

Putnam County runs a shuttle to the station for commuters closer to its location than those of Brewster and Southeast stations.

History

Rail service in Croton Falls can be traced as far back as June 1, 1847 with the establishment of the New York and Harlem Railroad. The station was the terminus of the line until it was extended to Dover Plains in 1848.[2] The New York and Harlem Railroad was acquired by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad in 1864, and converted the original station house into a freight house in 1870, then built a newer station house on the opposite side of the tracks. A second track was installed through the community by 1907, and the second station house was replaced by a third brick station house in 1910, before the NYC&HR was eventually taken over by the New York Central Railroad. The 1847-built former freight house,[3] and 1910-built former passenger depot [4] still exist to this day.

As with most of the Harlem Line, the merger of New York Central with Pennsylvania Railroad in 1968 transformed the station into a Penn Central Railroad station. Penn Central's continuous financial despair throughout the 1970s forced them to turn over their commuter service to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority which made it part of Metro-North in 1983. Metro-North electrified the line and added a standard high-level platform with staircases, a pedestrian bridge and elevators shortly after acquisition.

Station layout

The station has one four-car-long high-level island platform serving trains in both directions.[5]

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: New York and Harlem Railroad Summer Arrangement . December 8, 2019 . The Evening Post . June 7, 1847 . New York, New York . Newspapers.com.
  2. Book: The Coming of the New York and Harlem Railroad . Self-Published . Grogan, Louis V. . 1989 . 128–134 . 0-962120-65-0.
  3. Web site: Former Croton Falls NYCRR Freight House (Existing Railroad Stations in Westchester County, New York) . December 2, 2012 . March 4, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304053030/http://ny.existingstations.com/archive/437.jpg . dead .
  4. Web site: Third Croton Falls NYCRR Passenger Station (Existing Railroad Stations in Westchester County, New York) . December 2, 2012 . February 18, 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060218221947/http://ny.existingstations.com/archive/436.jpg . dead .
  5. Web site: Metro-North Railroad Track & Structures Department Track Charts Maintenance Program Interlocking Diagrams & Yard Diagrams 2015. 2015. Metro-North Railroad. January 28, 2019.