Goldens Bridge station: Difference between revisions

| name = Goldens Bridge

| style =MNRR MNRR
| style2 = Harlem

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| image = Golden's Bridge train station.jpg

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| address = 1 Old Bedford Road, at [[I-684]]<br>[[Goldens Bridge, New York]]

| coordinates = {{coord|41.2945|-73.6776|type:railwaystation_region:US-NY|display=inline,title}}

| line = [[Harlem Line]]

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| platform = 1 [[island platform]]

| tracks = 2

| electrified = 1984<br />700[[volt|V]] ([[Direct current|DC]]) [[third rail]]

| parking = 500+ meter spaces, 400+ permit

| bicycle =

| rebuiltcode =

| ADAowned =yes

| codezone = 6

This'''Goldens Bridge station''' is thea northernmost[[commuter stationrail]] instop theon Zone 6the [[Metro-North fareRailroad]]'s zone[[Harlem Line]], located in [[Lewisboro, New York]].

The [[New York and Harlem Railroad]] laid tracks for their main line through Golden's Bridge as far back as 1847. A station is known to have existed as far back as 1858,<ref>[http://www.iridetheharlemline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/1858_nyharlem_map.jpg 1858 New York and Harlem Railroad Map]</ref>, but may have existed earlier. The line was acquired by the [[New York Central and Hudson River Railroad]] in 1864. In 1871, the vicinity of the station became a junction for the [[New York and Mahopac Railroad]], a New York Central subsidiary better known as the Mahopac Branch, which connected the Harlem Division via [[Katonah (Metro-North station)|Katonah]] to the [[Putnam Division]] in Mahopac. The New York Central-era station contained a water tower, a turntable, a [[Outhouse|privy]], and an interlocking cabin known as "Cabin GN." The main station house was located where the southbound on-ramp to I-684 ends at the main road today. Among the industries used by the station were King Lumber and Plywood Supply<ref>[http://www.kinglumber.net/about-us/ King Lumber: About Us]</ref><ref>{{cite video |people=[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:DanTD DanTD] |date=June 24, 2016 |title=File:Golden's Bridge MNRR station-3.jpg |url= https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Golden%27s_Bridge_MNRR_station-3.jpg |medium= photograph |accessdateaccess-date= January 22, 2018 }}</ref> and [[Sheffield Farms]].<ref name=":0">{{cite book | title=The Coming of the New York and Harlem Railroad | publisher=Self-Published | author=Grogan, Louis V. | year=1989 | pages=122 | isbn=0-962120- 65-0}}</ref>{{Rp|122}} The line was double-tracked from White Plains to Golden's Bridge in 1902, and then double-tracked to Brewster in 1909.<ref name=":0" />{{Rp|121–122}} In 1904, the nearby bridge for the Mahopac Branch over the Muscoot Reservoir, was replaced with [[Bridge L-158]], a bridge originally used for the former [[West Shore Line]] at the mouth of [[Rondout Creek]] in [[Kingston, New York|Kingston]]. Between 1901 and 1915, the station was also intended to be the western terminus of the unfinished [[Danbury and Harlem Traction Company]], a trolley line intended to connect the station to [[Danbury, Connecticut]].<ref>[{{Cite web |url=http://www.vizettes.com/kt/dn-rr-history/dht.htm |title=Danbury and Harlem Traction company (Railroad History and Exploration In the Northeast; Vizettes.com)] |access-date=2017-01-27 |archive-date=2017-02-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202093935/http://www.vizettes.com/kt/dn-rr-history/dht.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The last train along the Mahopac Branch ran in 1959, and the branch was abandoned in 1960. Sometime during the late-1950s{{when|date=February 2018}} the former [[Richardson Romanesque]] depot was replaced with a simple brick structure. The privy was bought by actor [[James Cagney]] and moved to his farm in [[Dutchess County, New York]].<ref name=":0" />{{Rp|122}} 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]]. Construction of the last segment of Interstate 684 in the mid-1970s eliminated two grade crossings, one of which was replaced by a long bridge for [[New York State Route 138]] over [[New York State Route 22]], the interstate, the Harlem Line itself, and an access road between two parking lots. ThisThe bridge also contained a staircase to the main parking lot. Penn Central folded into [[Conrail]] in 1976, and the MTA converted the station and line part of Metro-North in 1983, who from that point on rebuilt the station as part of their electrification project to [[Southeast (Metro-North station)|Southeast]] in 1984.

ThisThe station has one eight-car-long high-level [[island platform]] serving trains in both directions.<ref>{{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}}</ref>{{Rp|13}}

== BibliographyReferences ==

*{{cite book|authorlast=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&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false |accessdateaccess-date=December 12, 2019|ref=harv}}

*{{CommonscatCommons category-inline|Goldens Bridge (Metro-North station)}}