Fleetwood station explained

Fleetwood
Style:MNRR
Style2:Harlem
Address:1 North MacQuesten Parkway, Mount Vernon, New York
Coordinates:40.927°N -73.84°W
Line:Harlem Line
Other:Bee-Line Bus System

26, 55

Platform:1 island platform
1 side platform
Tracks:3
Electrified:700V (DC) third rail
Parking:654 spaces
Opened:October 25, 1924[1]
Rebuilt:1989
Accessible:yes
Zone:3
Other Services Header:Former services
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Custom:
Shape:none
Line:none
Marker:rail
Marker-Color:
  1. 0039A6
Zoom:14

Fleetwood station is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line, located in the Fleetwood section of Mount Vernon, New York.

As of August 2006, daily commuter ridership was 2,355 and there are 654 parking spots.[2]

History

Fleetwood station was originally built on October 25, 1924 by the New York Central Railroad. The Cross County Parkway was built over the station, and was widened during the 1950s and 1960s.[3] [4] As with the rest of the Harlem Line, the merger of New York Central with Pennsylvania Railroad in 1968 transformed it into a Penn Central station, whose service was gradually merged with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and officially became part of Metro-North in 1983. In the Spring of 1989, the platforms were reconstructed, along with those of Bronxville, Tuckahoe, and Crestwood stations.[5] A two-track girder bridge over the Bronx River can be found north of the station. When the station was triple-tracked, a new bridge for the third track was built north of the station.[6]

Station layout

The station has two slightly offset high-level platforms each 12 cars long.[7]

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/ny/ny1500/ny1574/data/005.tif Historic American Buildings Survey (Fleetwood Railroad Station; Page 4)
  2. https://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/commutemetro-north.html New York Times 2006 Metro-North commuter rail info
  3. http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=3&lon=-73.83979101564519&lat=40.927856622844644&year=1954 Fleetwood NYC Station, Mount Vernon, New York; 1954 (NETR Online; Historic Aerials)
  4. Web site: Fleetwood PC Station, Mount Vernon, New York; 1974 (NETR Online; Historic Aerials) . December 19, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131203014133/http://www.historicaerials.com/api/img-server.php?op=fetchHistoricPhotograph&width=200&height=200&year=1974&bbox=-73.84309245564519,40.924555182 . December 3, 2013 . dead .
  5. http://www.iridetheharlemline.com/smartcat-archives/?srche=1&allinone=timetable Harlem Line Schedule History (iRide the Harlem Line)
  6. http://world.nycsubway.org/perl/show?53998 Peter Erlich's September 30, 2006 Photo north of Fleetwood Station (WorldNYCSubway.org)
  7. Web site: Metro-North Railroad Track & Structures Department Track Charts Maintenance Program Interlocking Diagrams & Yard Diagrams 2015. 2015. Metro-North Railroad. January 28, 2019.