Tenmile River station: Difference between revisions
| Line 38: | Line 38: | ||
==Platform and track configuration== |
==Platform and track configuration== |
||
This station has one two-car-long high-level side platform to the east of the track. The Harlem Line has one track at this location. Unique among any of its stations, the MTA has placed identifying signage on concrete pilings opposite the platform to complement the signs on the platform itself. |
This station has one two-car-long high-level side platform to the east of the track. The Harlem Line has one track at this location. Unique among any of its stations, the MTA has placed identifying signage on concrete pilings opposite the platform to complement the signs on the platform itself.{{fact|reason="Have seen this done at other stations in the past. Not unique."}} |
||
[[File:Mta tenmile train station.JPG|200px|left|thumb|Station platform at dusk]] |
[[File:Mta tenmile train station.JPG|200px|left|thumb|Station platform at dusk]] |
||
Revision as of 23:41, 29 March 2009
Tenmile River | |
|---|---|
 Southeast-bound train approaching station | |
| General information | |
| Location | 12 Sinpatch Road, Amenia, NY, 12501 |
| Coordinates | 41°46′46″N 73°33′32″W / 41.7795°N 73.5590°W |
| Line(s) | |
| Connections | Dutchess LOOP (Route 10) |
| Construction | |
| Accessible | Yes |
| Other information | |
| Fare zone | 10 |
| Services | |
|
| |
The Tenmile River Metro-North Railroad station serves the residents of Amenia, New York via the Harlem Line. About every two hours trains depart bound for Southeast which connect to trains for New York City with direct service to Grand Central Terminal. It is 80 miles (128 km) from Grand Central Terminal and travel time to Grand Central is approximately two hours, nine minutes. [1]
This station is the second/second-to-last station in the Zone 10 Metro-North fare zone.[2]
Tenmile River is named for the waterway of the same name adjacent to the station and is in nearly the same spot as the State School station (named for a nearby institution for the developmentally disabled, now Taconic Developmental Center) which was closed with Penn Central's abandonment of passenger service north of Dover Plains in 1972.
Platform and track configuration
This station has one two-car-long high-level side platform to the east of the track. The Harlem Line has one track at this location. Unique among any of its stations, the MTA has placed identifying signage on concrete pilings opposite the platform to complement the signs on the platform itself.[citation needed]
History
This station was re-opened with the Wassaic train station on July 9, 2000. North of Dover Plains was Penn Central territory in 1972 and was mainly used for freight. After departing Dover, the train would cross the State School Station, which the Indians knew as "Weebutook", and not far after that you would arrive at a small shelter with the sign reading State School at Mile Post 78.90. In addition to the few passengers that came to visit the New York State-operated juvenile correctional facility, the major amount of railroad traffic was involved the shipments of soft coal on almost a regular basis. On any average day numerous carloads were moved in and empties switched out. Similar to the renaming of the State Facility at Wingdale, reflecting the vogue of the era, the State School was renamed the "Wassaic Developmental Center" in the late 1970s