Marble Hill station

The 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 1 West 225th Street, 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).

This article is about the Metro-North station. For the New York City Subway station, see Marble Hill–225th Street station.
Marble Hill
Freight locomotives pass through the station. October 2014.
Location1 West 225th Street, Marble Hill, Manhattan, New York
Coordinates40.8747°N 73.9120°W / 40.8747; -73.9120
Owned byMetro-North Railroad
Line(s)Hudson Line
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks3
ConnectionsNew York City Subway:
at Marble Hill–225th Street
New York City Bus: Bx7, Bx9, Bx20
MTA Bus: BxM1
Other information
Fare zone2
History
Opened1906
Rebuilt2005
Electrified700V (DC) third rail
Key dates
April 22, 1951Station depot burned[1]
Traffic
Passengers (2006)27,040  0%
Services
Preceding station Metro-North Following station
Spuyten Duyvil
towards Croton–Harmon
 Hudson Line University Heights
towards Grand Central
Former services
Preceding station New York Central Railroad Following station
Spuyten Duyvil
toward Peekskill
 Hudson Division University Heights
toward New York
to Spuyten Duyvil
The Bronx
Manhattan
Manhattan
The Bronx
to University Heights

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.[2] With the easy subway transfer, albeit up a number of flights of stairs, many commuters choose to save money in exchange for a slightly longer commute, thus avoiding the additional cost of taking the trains directly into Grand Central Terminal or Harlem–125th Street.

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.[3] 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.[4]

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.[5] 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.[6] 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

This station has one narrow, 4-car-long high-level island platform accessible by enclosed stairway from West 225th Street.[7]: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.

G Street level Exit/entrance
P
Platform level		 Track 1 ←      Hudson Line toward Croton–Harmon (Spuyten Duyvil)
Island platform
Track 2 ←      Hudson Line toward Grand Central (University Heights) →
Track 4 ←      Hudson Line express service does not stop here →

References
  1. "Railroad Station Destroyed by Fire". The Philadelphia Inquirer. United Press International. April 23, 1951. p. 9. Retrieved March 14, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. "MTA Metro-North Railroad to Build Retaining Wall at Marble Hill Station" (Press release). Metro-North Railroad. January 31, 2008. Retrieved February 21, 2010.
  3. "2006 Hudson Line Timetable" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on September 24, 2015.
  4. "Hudson Line Timetable" (PDF).
  5. 1899 Home Life Map of New York City ( Manhattan and the Bronx ) - Geographicus - NYC-HomeLife-1899.jpg (map). 1899. Retrieved October 18, 2014 – via WikiMedia Commons.
  6. Documents of the Senate of the State of New York: Volume 3 (1907)
  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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