Harlem Valley–Wingdale station


The Harlem Valley–Wingdale 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 from Southeast station, from White Plains, and 69 miles from Grand Central Terminal and travel time to Grand Central is approximately one hour, 55 minutes.
This station is the southernmost station in the Zone 9 Metro-North fare zone.
The 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. 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 was approximately one half mile north in the hamlet on Dutchess CR 21 and opened on December 31, 1848. 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, 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.

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