Coleman's station
Coleman's | ||||||||||||||||
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Location | 512 Colman Station Road North East, NY, 12506 | |||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 41°54′7″N 73°31′6″W / 41.90194°N 73.51833°W | |||||||||||||||
Tracks | 0 | |||||||||||||||
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Fare zone | 12 | |||||||||||||||
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Opened | 1852 | |||||||||||||||
Closed | March 22, 1972 (passenger service); March 27, 1980 (freight) | |||||||||||||||
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Official name | Coleman's Railroad Station Site | |||||||||||||||
Designated | September 30, 1993 | |||||||||||||||
Part of | Coleman Station Historic District | |||||||||||||||
Reference no. | 93000945[1] | |||||||||||||||
Architectural style | None Specified |
Colemans was a former NYCRR train station that served the residents of North East, New York.
History
When the New York and Harlem Railroad began building their line through the Taconic Mountains towards Chatham in 1851, Coleman's was recommended as a freight only station by local entrepreneur Amasa Coleman, and landowner Oliver Barrett in order to take up a service overflow from Sharon and Millerton Stations. The station which was established in 1852 operated primarily as a freight stop throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, but began accepting passengers by the late 1950s. As with the rest of the Harlem Line it became a Penn Central station when NYC merged with their longtime rival Pennsylvania Railroad in 1968. Penn Central ended all passenger service north of Dover Plains on March 22, 1972 and the station resumed it's freight only status until March 27, 1980 when Conrail abandoned service on that segment of the line. Today it is located along the Harlem Valley Rail Trail[2] in the middle of the Coleman Station Historic District.
References
- ^ "NPS Focus". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. Retrieved October 23, 2013.
- ^ Harlem Valley Rail Trail map
- Stations along New York Central Railroad lines
- North East, New York
- Railway stations in Dutchess County, New York
- Defunct railway stations in New York
- Railway stations opened in 1852
- Railway stations closed in 1972
- Historic district contributing properties in New York
- 1852 establishments in New York
- National Register of Historic Places in Dutchess County, New York
- Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in New York
- New York (state) railway station stubs
- Dutchess County, New York Registered Historic Place stubs