Harlem Valley–Wingdale station
{{Short description|Metro-North Railroad station in New York}}
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| name = Harlem Valley–Wingdale
| style = MNRR
| style2 = Harlem
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| image = Harlem Valley-Wingdale station from grade crossing.jpg
| image_caption = Station from grade crossing to its north
| address = Wheeler Road off of Route 22, Wingdale, New York
| coordinates = {{coord|41.6374|-73.5717|type:railwaystation_region:US-NY|display=inline,title}}
| line = Harlem Line
| other =
| platform = 1 side platform
| tracks = 1
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| passengers = {{rail pass box|system=Metro-North|pass_year=2018|pass_rank=97 of 109|passengers=132{{cite book|title=METRO-NORTH 2018 WEEKDAY STATION BOARDINGS|date=April 2019|publisher=Market Analysis/Fare Policy Group:OPERATIONS PLANNING AND ANALYSIS DEPARTMENT:Metro-North Railroad|page=6}}|}}
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| accessible = yes
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| zone = 9
| services = {{Adjacent stations|system=MNRR|line1=Harlem Wassaic|note-mid1=limited service|left1=Appalachian Trail|right1=Dover Plains|left2=Pawling|right2=Dover Plains}}
| other_services_header = Former services
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Harlem Valley–Wingdale station (formerly State Hospital station) on the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line, located in the Wingdale section of Dover, New York. It is adjacent to the site of the former Harlem Valley State Hospital.
History
File:Wingdale_Former_Station_Location.jpg
The station was formerly known as "State Hospital" and was a flag stop between the 1930s and 1960s.{{cite web|url=http://community.webshots.com/photo/fullsize/2383577140039645027XrcdLq|date=July 12, 1959|title=Harlem Division Timetable|access-date=April 12, 2011|publisher=New York Central Railroad}}{{cite web|url=http://www.iridetheharlemline.com/other-stuff/harlem-line-historical-archives/1968-timetable-penn-central-upper-harlem-division/|date=February 5, 1968|title=Harlem Division Timetable|access-date=April 12, 2011|publisher=Penn Central Railroad|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100831053154/http://www.iridetheharlemline.com/other-stuff/harlem-line-historical-archives/1968-timetable-penn-central-upper-harlem-division/|archive-date=August 31, 2010}} It was built to serve the Harlem Valley State Hospital, and was expanded from a simple wooden platform to a shelter with a wood-burning stove. The Wingdale station (originally known as "Wing's station," then "South Dover station") was approximately one half mile north in the hamlet on Dutchess CR 21 (Pleasant Ridge Road) and opened on December 31, 1848.{{sfn|Dana|1866|p=216}}{{cite news |title=New York and Harlem Railroad ---- Winter Arrangement |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/40488517/harlem_railroad_december_12_1849/ |access-date=December 12, 2019 |work=The Evening Post |date=December 12, 1849 |location=New York, New York |page=4|via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}} It was located near such hotels as the 1806-built Jackson Wing Inn, and the 1858-built Duell Hotel, the latter of which still stands today. In the post-World War II era, the station was reduced from a station house, to a shelter along the platform.
As with most of the Harlem Line, the merger of New York Central with Pennsylvania Railroad in 1968 transformed the two stations into Penn Central Railroad stations. Penn Central's continuous financial despair throughout the 1970s forced them to turn over their commuter service to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and abandon service north of Dover Plains. Penn Central continued to provide coal service to the hospital until it was taken over by Conrail, which continued coal service well into the 1990s. The stations were consolidated in 1977 with the State Hospital station being renamed Harlem Valley-Wingdale and the Wingdale stop being discontinued, thus transforming the station into the penultimate station on the Harlem Line,{{cite book |last=Grogan |first=Louis V. |title=The Coming of the New York and Harlem Railroad |year=1989 |publisher=L.V. Grogan |location=New York |isbn=0-9621206-5-0 |pages=185–188}} until Metro-North acquired the line in 1983, and re-extended it to Wassaic in 2000.
Station layout
The station has one four-car-long high-level side platform to the east of the track.{{Cite web|url=https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2647944/Operations-Metro-North-Railroad-Track-Charts.pdf|title=Metro-North Railroad Track & Structures Department Track Charts Maintenance Program Interlocking Diagrams & Yard Diagrams 2015|date=2015|publisher=Metro-North Railroad|access-date=January 28, 2019}} {{Rp|15}} It originally contained two tracks with a separate spur leading to the coal-fueled power plant for the hospital.
References
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References
- {{cite book|last=Dana | first=William B. |title=The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 55 |date=1866 |publisher=William B. Dana |location=New York, New York |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yQQdAAAAIAAJ |access-date=December 12, 2019}}
External links
- {{Commonscat-inline|Harlem Valley – Wingdale (Metro-North station)}}
{{MNR links}}
- [https://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=41.637542,-73.571138&spn=0.003817,0.013679&z=17&layer=c&cbll=41.637542,-73.571138&panoid=6ALICjnoRRH6_Vq-ngEC8g&cbp=12,270.21,,0,4.29 Station from Google Maps Street View]
- [https://www.facebook.com/IRideTheHarlemLine/photos/pb.365578010184129.-2207520000.1498239702./988518264556764/?type=3&theater Harlem Valley-Wingdale Station; January, 1984. Photo by Seymour Fass (I Ride the Harlem Line; Facebook Page)]
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Category:Metro-North Railroad stations in New York (state)
Category:Former New York Central Railroad stations