Irvington station (Metro-North)

Irvington
Irvington
	Looking south along the tracks from the east platform. Temporary platform in place opposite during summer 2007 renovations.
Location	1 Astor Street, Irvington, New York
Coordinates	41°02′22″N 73°52′24″W / 41.0395°N 73.8733°WCoordinates: 41°02′22″N 73°52′24″W / 41.0395°N 73.8733°W
Line(s)	Empire Corridor
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	4
Construction
Parking	283 Spaces
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	4
History
Opened	1849
Rebuilt	1899
Electrified	700V (DC) third rail
Services
Former services
U.S. Historic district; Contributing property
Official name	Irvington New York Central Railroad Station
Designated	January 15, 2014
Part of	Irvington Historic District (New York)
Reference no.	13001095
Architectural style	Richardson Romanesque

Irvington is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Hudson Line, located in Irvington, New York. Trains leave for New York City every 25 to 30 minutes. It is 21.9 miles from Grand Central Terminal and travel time to Grand Central is about 51 minutes on local trains and 36 to 42 minutes on express/semi-express trains.

History[]

The old NYC station house as seen from the GCT-bound platform, now a frozen yogurt shop.

The Hudson River Railroad reached the settlement by 1849; the first passengers on a regularly scheduled run through the village paid fifty cents to travel from Peekskill to Chambers Street in Manhattan on September 29, 1849.^[2] The community was in the process of renaming itself after author Washington Irving, despite the fact that he was still alive at the time. In 1852, Irvington was also named for the first coal-fueled steam locomotive of the Hudson River Railroad.^[3] The HRR was acquired by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad in 1869, and the New York Central Railroad in 1913.

The existing station house was built in 1889 and designed by the Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge architectural firm. As with most of the stations along the Hudson Line, it was transformed into a Penn Central station when New York Central merged with the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1968. Bankruptcy of the company followed by 1970, and Penn Central eventually turned passenger service over to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York, who made it part of Metro-North in 1983.

Irvington's former New York Central Railroad station, built in 1889,^[4] has been a contributing property of the Irvington Historic District since January 15, 2014.^[5] Since being retired as a ticket office in 1957, it has been utilized as an art and curio shop, an office for the Weyerhauser lumber yard which was located on the other side of the tracks – now Scenic Hudson Park^[6] – and the office of an architectural firm. In 2016, with the addition of an outdoor garden, it was converted into a 20-seat café serving frozen yogurt.^[4]

Station layout[]

The station has two slightly offset high-level side platforms each eight cars long.^[7]^: 3 Track 1 is only used by diesel trains since it does not have a third rail.^{[citation needed]}

P Platform level	Street level	Astor Street exit/entrance and parking
	Side platform
	Track 3	← Hudson Line toward Croton–Harmon (Tarrytown)
	Track 1	← Hudson Line express service do not stop here ← Empire Corridor services do not stop here
	Track 2	← Empire Corridor services do not stop here → ← Hudson Line express service do not stop here →
	Track 4	← Hudson Line toward Grand Central (Ardsley-on-Hudson) →
	Side platform
	Street level	Bridge Street exit/entrance
B	Underpass	Connection between platforms

References[]

^ "NPS Focus". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. Retrieved January 19, 2016.
^ Lockwood, Wolfert Ecker in Graff & Graff, p.35
^ "45-855 Railroads, The First Big Business: Topic 5 (Voteview)". Archived from the original on 2013-01-23. Retrieved 2015-01-03.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Turiano, John Bruno (August 2016) "Froyo to Melt For"
^ Historic District Application - Irvington
^ Scenic Hudson Park at Irvington
^ "Metro-North Railroad Track & Structures Department Track Charts Maintenance Program Interlocking Diagrams & Yard Diagrams 2015" (PDF). Metro-North Railroad. 2015. Retrieved January 28, 2019.

External links[]

Media related to Irvington (Metro-North station) at Wikimedia Commons

[focus-1] "NPS Focus". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. Retrieved January 19, 2016.

[2] Lockwood, Wolfert Ecker in Graff & Graff, p.35

[3] "45-855 Railroads, The First Big Business: Topic 5 (Voteview)". Archived from the original on 2013-01-23. Retrieved 2015-01-03.

[mag-4] Jump up to: ^a ^b Turiano, John Bruno (August 2016) "Froyo to Melt For"

[5] Historic District Application - Irvington

[6] Scenic Hudson Park at Irvington

[7] "Metro-North Railroad Track & Structures Department Track Charts Maintenance Program Interlocking Diagrams & Yard Diagrams 2015" (PDF). Metro-North Railroad. 2015. Retrieved January 28, 2019.

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