Harlem Valley–Wingdale station

The Harlem Valley–Wingdale station (formerly State Hospital station) on the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line, located in Wingdale, New York. It is adjacent to the Harlem Valley State Hospital. Trains leave for New York City every two hours, and about every 30 minutes during rush hour. It is 18 miles (29 km) from Southeast station, 47 miles (76 km) from White Plains, and 69 miles (111 km) from Grand Central Terminal and travel time to Grand Central is approximately one hour, 55 minutes.

Harlem Valley–Wingdale
Station from grade crossing to its north
LocationWheeler Road off of Route 22, Wingdale, New York
Coordinates41.6374°N 73.5717°W / 41.6374; -73.5717
Line(s)Harlem Line
Platforms1 side platform
Tracks1
Construction
Disabled accessYes
Other information
Fare zone9
History
Previous namesState Hospital (–October 30, 1977)[1]
Traffic
Passengers (2007)39,260  0%
Services
Preceding station Metro-North Following station
Appalachian Trail
towards Southeast
 Harlem Line
limited service
 Dover Plains
towards Wassaic
Pawling
towards Southeast
 Harlem Line
Wassaic Branch
(weekdays)
Former services
Preceding station New York Central Railroad Following station
Pawling
toward New York
 Harlem Division Dover Furnace
toward Chatham

This station is the southernmost station in the Zone 9 Metro-North fare zone.

The 7.5 miles (12.1 km) distance from Harlem Valley–Wingdale to Dover Plains, the next station to the north, is the longest between two stations on the Harlem Line.

History

The station was formerly known as "State Hospital" and was a flag stop between the 1930s and 1960s.[2][3] It was built to serve the Harlem Valley State Hospital, and was expanded from a simple wooden platform to a shelter with a wood-burning stove. The Wingdale station (originally known as "Wing's station," then "South Dover station") was approximately one half mile north in the hamlet on Dutchess CR 21 (Pleasant Ridge Road) and opened on December 31, 1848.[4][5] It was located near such hotels as the 1806-built Jackson Wing Inn, and the 1858-built Duell Hotel, the latter of which still stands today. In the post-World War II era, the station was reduced from a station house, to a shelter along the platform. As with most of the Harlem Line, the merger of New York Central with Pennsylvania Railroad in 1968 transformed the two stations into Penn Central Railroad stations. 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. Penn Central continued to provide coal service to the hospital until it was taken over by Conrail, which continued coal service well into the 1990s. The stations were consolidated in 1977 with the State Hospital station being renamed Harlem Valley-Wingdale and the Wingdale stop being discontinued, thus transforming the station into the penultimate station on the Harlem Line,[6] until Metro-North acquired the line in 1983, and re-extended it to Wassaic in 2000.

Station layout

This station has one four-car-long high-level side platform to the east of the track.[7]:15

P
Platform level		 Track 1 ←      Harlem Line weekdays toward Southeast (Appalachian Trail or Pawling)
←      Harlem Line weekdays toward Wassaic (Dover Plains) →
Side platform, doors will open on the left or right
Street level Exit/entrance and parking
  • Location of the former Wingdale shelter

Notes
  1. "Conrail's New Timetables Effective Sunday, Oct. 30". The Pawling-News Chronicle. October 26, 1977. p. 14. Retrieved August 9, 2018.
  2. "Harlem Division Timetable". New York Central Railroad. July 12, 1959. Retrieved April 12, 2011.
  3. "Harlem Division Timetable". Penn Central Railroad. February 5, 1968. Archived from the original on August 31, 2010. Retrieved April 12, 2011.
  4. Dana 1866, p. 216.
  5. "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.
  6. Grogan, Louis V. (1989). The Coming of the New York and Harlem Railroad. New York: L.V. Grogan. pp. 185–188. ISBN 0-9621206-5-0.
  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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