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Brodhead's Bridge station

Coordinates: 41°57′22″N 74°14′50″W / 41.95611°N 74.24722°W / 41.95611; -74.24722
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Brodhead's Bridge
The former Brodhead's Bridge station on a postcard.
General information
LocationBrodhead's Bridge, Olive, Ulster County, New York
Coordinates41°57′22″N 74°14′50″W / 41.95611°N 74.24722°W / 41.95611; -74.24722
Tracks1
History
ClosedJune 8, 1913[1]
Services
Preceding station New York Central Railroad Following station
Shokan
toward Oneonta
Catskill Mountain Branch Ashokan

The railway station of the hamlet of Brodhead's Bridge in Olive, New York was at milepost 18.1 on the Ulster and Delaware Railroad. It was a destination for tourists and vacationers from New York City who would stay at local resort homes (boarding houses) and use the nearby Esopus Creek to swim and fish.[2] Similar resort villages named Atwood and Olive Bridge were also served by this station, which was abandoned in 1913 before it was submerged by the waters of the newly built Ashokan Reservoir.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Abandons Old Line". The Rutland Daily Herald. June 9, 1913. p. 1. Retrieved February 18, 2022 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  2. ^ "Brodhead's Bridge". udrrhs.org. Ulster & Delaware Railroad. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
  3. ^ "Railway Vacates Ashokan". The New York Times. June 9, 1913. Retrieved October 7, 2011.