Cortlandt station

Metro-North Railroad station in New York

41°14′49″N 73°55′24″W / 41.2470°N 73.9232°W / 41.2470; -73.9232Line(s)Hudson LinePlatforms1 island platformTracks3ConnectionsBus transport Bee-Line Bus System: 14ConstructionParking886 spacesAccessibleYesOther informationFare zone6HistoryOpenedJune 30, 1996[1]Passengers20181,225[2] (Metro-North)Rank48 of 109[2] Services
Preceding station Metro-North Railroad Following station
Peekskill
toward Poughkeepsie
 Hudson Line Croton–Harmon
toward Grand Central
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Cortlandt station is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Hudson Line, located in Montrose, New York. Trains leave for New York City every hour on weekdays, and about every 25 minutes during rush hour. It is 38.4 miles (61.8 km) from Grand Central Terminal and travel time to Grand Central is about 62 minutes.

History

Cortlandt is the second newest station on the Hudson Line (and seventh-newest on the Metro-North system). The station replaced the low-level Montrose and Crugers stations at a point midway between them on June 30, 1996.[3] Those stations were replaced as part of the last stage of expanding the Hudson Line to six-car high-level platforms. They could not be extended because of the curvature of their platforms.[1]: 6  Cortlandt is the first station north of Croton–Harmon, where electrification begins southbound.

On February 15, 2012, Metro-North completed the expansion project of the station. The new facility includes an overpass extension that ties the original station east of the tracks with a new entrance on the west side off NY 9A near the VA Hospital, new parking and a landscaped, canopy-covered, intermodal drop-off plaza. The new overpass has a spacious, heated waiting area with numerous benches and a coffee concession.[4]

Station layout

The station has one six-car-long high-level island platform.[5]: 4 

References

  1. ^ a b Transportation Research Record. Transportation Research Board, Commission on Sociotechnical Systems, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences. 1999. ISBN 9780309071031.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Hershenson, Roberta (September 8, 1996). "Cortlandt Welcomes New Train Station". The New York Times. Retrieved April 12, 2011.
  4. ^ "New Cortlandt Station Expansion Is Complete". Facebook. MTA Metro-North Railroad. February 15, 2012. Retrieved December 12, 2011.
  5. ^ "Metro-North Railroad Track & Structures Department Track Charts Maintenance Program Interlocking Diagrams & Yard Diagrams 2015" (PDF). Metro-North Railroad. 2015. Retrieved January 28, 2019.

Further reading

  • Bennett, Christopher K. (1999). "Metro-North's Cortlandt Station: Regional Intermodal Success Story". Transportation Research Record. 1677 (1): 3–9. doi:10.3141/1677-01. ISSN 0361-1981. S2CID 110454436.

External links

  • Media related to Cortlandt (Metro-North station) at Wikimedia Commons
  • Metro-North station page for Cortlandt
  • List of upcoming Metro-North train departure times and track assignments from MTA
  • Entrance from Google Maps Street View
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