Kensico Cemetery station
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Kensico Cemetery | |||||||||||||||||||||
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![]() 1893 image of the former Kensico Cemetery station | |||||||||||||||||||||
General information | |||||||||||||||||||||
Location | 273 Lakeview Avenue Valhalla, NY, 10595 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 41°04′55.9″N 73°47′03.6″W / 41.082194°N 73.784333°W | ||||||||||||||||||||
Line(s) | Harlem Line | ||||||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||||||||||
Opened | December 1891[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
Closed | 1983 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Rebuilt | 1902 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Kensico Cemetery station was a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line that served the nearby Kensico Cemetery, to the north of Lakeview Avenue. Located along the platform behind the buildings at Sharon Gardens,[2] the station was similar to the still-existent and nearby Mount Pleasant station in which it served friends and family of those buried there instead of actual commuters.[citation needed]
By the late 1970s the low-level station saw only three trains a day on weekends, and was a flag stop for one train on weekdays.[3] Upon the electrification of the Harlem Line between North White Plains and Brewster North in 1983, the station was closed[4] given its redundancy to Mount Pleasant and the cost to modernize the station.
References
[edit]- ^ "New Station on the New York Central". Buffalo Evening News. December 18, 1891. p. 13. Retrieved June 24, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Existing Railroad Stations of Westchester County, New York". Archived from the original on December 31, 2019. Retrieved February 9, 2015.
- ^ Harlem Line timetable effective October 30, 1977
- ^ Station no longer appears on timetable effective April 24, 1983
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