Pleasantville station
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| Location | 400 Manville Road, Pleasantville, New York | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°08′05″N 73°47′32″W / 41.1348°N 73.7923°W | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Harlem Line | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Connections | Bee-Line: 6, 15, 19 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Parking | 263 spaces | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | October 1846[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1905, 1959 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Electrified | 1984 700V (DC) third rail | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2018 | 1,348[2] (Metro-North) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | 46 of 109[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pleasantville station is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line, located in Pleasantville, New York. There is also bus service to the station from Pace University.
History
[edit]The New York and Harlem Railroad laid tracks through Pleasantville during the 1840s. Evidence of the existence of Pleasantville station can be found as far back as October 1846.[3]: 14 The existing station house was built by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad in 1905.[4] The station also had freight sidings for the shipping department of the headquarters of Reader's Digest.[3]: 106 On December 20, 1956, New York State opened up bids for the elimination of several grade crossings in Pleasantville, though the project was originally planned by New York Central 25 years earlier. The project was expected to cost $3.857 million. The tracks were lowered for 7,000 feet (2,100 m), new bridges were built over the railroad for Manville and Bedford Roads (current and former NY 117 respectively), and the station house was moved.[5] The project was finished by 1959.
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 which made it part of Metro-North in 1983. When the Harlem Line was electrified between North White Plains and Brewster North in 1984, less reconstruction was required at Pleasantville than with other stations.
Present Day
[edit]Pleasantville is still a function station on the Harlem Line. The area is home to bus stops of multiple routes. Along with this, there are two manual ticket counters located on the platform and there is no customer service at this location.[6] There are multiple entrances to the platforms including elevators. With the station being 30 miles north of Manhattan, it is about a 50 minutes trip from Grand Central Terminal to Pleasantville assuming all goes well.[7]
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Station layout
[edit]The station has one six-car-long high-level island platform serving trains in both directions.[8]: 12
Bibliography
[edit]- Hyatt, Elijah Clarence (1898). History of the New York & Harlem Railroad. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
References
[edit]- ^ Hyatt 1898, p. 14.
- ^ a b METRO-NORTH 2018 WEEKDAY STATION BOARDINGS. Market Analysis/Fare Policy Group:OPERATIONS PLANNING AND ANALYSIS DEPARTMENT:Metro-North Railroad. April 2019. p. 6.
- ^ a b Grogan, Louis V. (1989). The Coming of the New York and Harlem Railroad. Self-Published. ISBN 0-962120-65-0.
- ^ "Existing Railway stations in Westchester County, New York". Archived from the original on December 31, 2019. Retrieved July 9, 2014.
- ^ "WESTCHESTER SET FOR TWO BIG JOBS; State Opens Bids Dec.20 for Pleasantville Crossing and New Expressway Work". The New York Times. November 24, 1956. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 23, 2017.
- ^ "Pleasantville". MTA. Retrieved May 3, 2024.
- ^ "Schedules". MTA. Retrieved May 3, 2024.
- ^ "Metro-North Railroad Track & Structures Department Track Charts Maintenance Program Interlocking Diagrams & Yard Diagrams 2015" (PDF). Metro-North Railroad. 2015. Retrieved January 28, 2019.
External links
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Media related to Pleasantville (Metro-North station) at Wikimedia Commons
- Metro-North station page for Pleasantville
- List of upcoming Metro-North train departure times and track assignments from MTA
- Pleasantville Metro-North Station (The SubwayNut)
- Former Pleasantville New York Central Railroad Depot image (Dynamic Depot Maps)
- Bedford Road entrance from Google Maps Street View
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