Highbridge Facility

Highbridge
Highbridge Metro-North Facility, as seen from its namesake
General information
Location	Depot Place and Exterior Drive Bronx, New York
Coordinates	40°50′17.5″N 73°55′53″W
Line(s)	Hudson Line
Platforms	1 side platform (employees only)
Tracks	3 mainline plus 11 yard
History
Rebuilt	December 2003
Electrified	700V (DC) third rail
Services
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The Highbridge Facility, also simply known as Highbridge, is a maintenance facility of the Metro-North Railroad in Bronx, New York City, United States. It is the third stop along the Hudson Line, and is for Metro-North employees only. The station is located south of the High Bridge, off Depot Place and Exterior Drive, and is accessible from Sedgwick Avenue by way of a viaduct that carries Depot Place over the Major Deegan Expressway, the Hudson Line, and Exterior Drive.

History and use

It was originally built by the New York Central Railroad. Photographs from the 1960s indicate that the station was a regular passenger depot before it was a rail yard.

The railroad station in the Highbridge section of the Bronx was once part of the New York Central (later Metro-North) railroad Hudson Division (Line). The station served as a transfer point for the Putnam Division (Line) of the NYC. The Central's long distance passenger trains including the Wolverine, 20th Century and Lake Shore Limited picked up their dining cars at Highbridge after leaving Grand Central Terminal but Highbridge was not an official stop for the trains. The Central also had a passenger car washing facility at Highbridge.

Along with the passenger service, Highbridge also had a tractor trailer/freight yard where trucks would load their trailers on to flat cars for "piggyback" service and at one time had a pier to load freight cars on barges when the Central owned its own fleet of tugboats and car carriers. The passenger station was closed and demolished in the late 1970s and the freight yard now serves as a maintenance facility of the Metro-North Railroad. In 1998, it was given a connection to the Oak Point Link towards a viaduct along the east bank of the Harlem River leading to the Harlem River Yards and Oak Point Yard, both of which are freight yards originally owned by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.

In popular culture

A scene in the movie Funny Girl shows Barbra Streisand riding one of the Central tugs.

Platform and track configuration

1	■ Hudson Line	Passing track
2	■ Hudson Line	Passing track
4	■ Hudson Line	Passing track, no platform here

External links

Media related to Highbridge Yard and Facility at Wikimedia Commons

• High Bridge Station Photo History (NYCSubway.org)