Marble Hill station

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Marble Hill
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Freight locomotives pass through the station. October 2014.
General information
Location125 West 225th Street, Marble Hill, Manhattan, New York
Coordinates 40°52′29″N73°54′43″W / 40.8747°N 73.9120°W / 40.8747; -73.9120
Owned by Metro-North Railroad
Line(s) Hudson Line
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks3
Connections BSicon SUBWAY.svg New York City Subway :
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Aiga bus trans.svg New York City Bus : Bx7, Bx9, Bx20
Aiga bus trans.svg MTA Bus : BxM1
Other information
Fare zone2
History
Opened1906
Rebuilt2005
Electrified700V (DC) third rail
Key dates
April 22, 1951Station depot burned [1]
Passengers
20181,382 [2] (Metro-North)
Rank45 of 109 [2]
Services
Preceding station MTA NYC logo.svg Metro-North Railroad Following station
Spuyten Duyvil Hudson Line University Heights
Former services
Preceding station New York Central Railroad Following station
Spuyten Duyvil
toward Peekskill
Hudson Division University Heights
toward New York
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Location
Marble Hill station

Marble Hill station is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Hudson Line, serving the Marble Hill neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The station is located at 125 West 225th Street, [3] two blocks west of the Broadway Bridge on the north side of the Harlem River, near the New York City Subway's Marble Hill–225th Street station (which serves the 1 train).

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The Marble Hill station is frequently used by commuters going to and from the Manhattan neighborhoods of the Upper West Side, Washington Heights, Hudson Heights and Inwood; about a third of the station's daily ridership disembarks at Marble Hill to transfer to the subway. [4]

Marble Hill used to be one of four express stations on the Hudson Line south of Croton–Harmon; most trains stopped there, except for peak-hour trains to and from Poughkeepsie. [5] However, as of November 9,2014, the only express trains that stop there are a few reverse peak trains in the morning, though most trains originating in or terminating at Croton do stop at the station. [6]

History

Prior to the construction of the Harlem River Ship Canal, the Hudson Line went around Marble Hill, and the nearest station was a station in the Bronx named Kingsbridge, which was also the name of a nearby station on the New York and Putnam Railroad. [7] Between 1905 and 1906 the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad realigned the tracks along the north coast of the canal and built Marble Hill station on the east side of the Broadway Bridge. [8] As with the rest of the stations along the Hudson Line, the station became a Penn Central station upon the merger between NYC and Pennsylvania Railroad in 1968. Penn Central continued commuter travel until it was taken over by Conrail in 1976, which at some point, moved the station to the west side of the bridge before the station and commuter line was taken over by Metro-North Railroad in 1983.

Station layout

The station has one narrow, 4-car-long high-level island platform accessible by enclosed stairway from West 225th Street. [9] :1

Until the late 1970s the station lay east of the Broadway Bridge with two low-level side platforms serving a four-track line, providing a more direct connection to the bridge sidewalk via a short flight of steps. However, the current location west of Broadway is closer to the residential section of Marble Hill and the downtown platform of the subway. The former northbound express track was removed.

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