Dover Plains station

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Dover Plains
Southbound Metro-North Harlem Line train departing Dover Plains, NY, station.jpg
Southbound train departing
General information
LocationMarket Street and Mill Street, Dover Plains, New York
Coordinates 41°44′34″N73°34′34″W / 41.7427°N 73.5762°W / 41.7427; -73.5762
Line(s) Harlem Line
Platforms1 side platform
Tracks1
Connections Dutchess County Public Transit : D
Construction
AccessibleYes
Other information
Fare zone9
History
OpenedDecember 31, 1848 [1] [2]
Rebuilt1860; August 19, 1996 [3]
Passengers
2018105 [4] (Metro-North)
Rank100 of 109 [4]
Services
Preceding station MTA NYC logo.svg Metro-North Railroad Following station
Harlem Valley–Wingdale
toward Southeast
Harlem Line
Wassaic Branch
(weekdays)
Tenmile River
toward Wassaic
Former services
Preceding station New York Central Railroad Following station
Dover Furnace
toward New York
Harlem Division State School
toward Chatham
Location
Dover Plains station

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

Contents

History

Rail service in Dover Plains can be traced as far back as December 31, 1848 with the establishment of the New York and Harlem Railroad, [2] which became part of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad in 1864 and eventually taken over by the New York Central Railroad (NYC).

Besides passenger service, freight service also originated and stopped at this location, in both directions north and south. It even contained a nearby railroad hotel. Under the New York Central, for the first five decades of the 20th century the station hosted through trains such as the Berkshire Hills Express to North Adams, Massachusetts via other towns in the Berkshires section of Massachusetts.

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 and abandon service north of Dover Plains, thus transforming it into a terminal station in 1972. Freight service north of Dover Plains was abandoned by Conrail on March 27, 1980. The ticket office was closed in September 1981. The line itself became part of Metro-North in 1983. The 1860-built NYC station house contained a bagel restaurant, [5] until it was closed in the 2010s, and left vacant, and the former freight house also still exists. [6] Dover Plains was a terminal station until 2000 when Metro-North expanded the line back to Wassaic.

Station layout

The station has one four-car-long high-level side platform to the west of the track. [7] :16

Notes

  1. Dana 1866, p. 216.
  2. 1 2 "New York and Harlem Railroad ---- Winter Arrangement". The Evening Post. New York, New York. December 12, 1849. p. 4. Retrieved December 12, 2019 via Newspapers.com. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  3. Nicole R. Stokes (August 20, 1996). "New Railroad Station Debuts". Poughkeepsie Journal . p. 3B. Retrieved November 21, 2017 via Newspapers.com. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  4. 1 2 METRO-NORTH 2018 WEEKDAY STATION BOARDINGS. Market Analysis/Fare Policy Group:OPERATIONS PLANNING AND ANALYSIS DEPARTMENT:Metro-North Railroad. April 2019. p. 6.
  5. Old Dover Plains Passenger Station (Existing Railroad Stations in Dutchess County, New York)
  6. Old Dover Plains Freight Station (Existing Railroad Stations in Dutchess County, New York)
  7. "Metro-North Railroad Track & Structures Department Track Charts Maintenance Program Interlocking Diagrams & Yard Diagrams 2015" (PDF). Metro-North Railroad. 2015. Retrieved January 28, 2019.

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