Otisville station is a commuter rail stop owned by Metro-North Railroad serving trains on the Port Jervis Line, serving the village of Otisville, New York along with the town of Mount Hope. It is located a short distance off New York State Route 211 near the eastern village line.
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 Hoboken-bound train arriving at Otisville station. | |||||||||||||
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| Location | 1 Kelly Hill Road Otisville, New York | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°28′18″N 74°31′45″W / 41.4718°N 74.5292°W | ||||||||||||
| Owned by | Metro-North Railroad | ||||||||||||
| Line(s) | NS Southern Tier Line | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||
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| Structure type | At-grade | ||||||||||||
| Parking | 151 spaces[1] | ||||||||||||
| Accessible | No[1] | ||||||||||||
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| Opened | November 1, 1846 | ||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1954[2] | ||||||||||||
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The station has long been among the least developed on the Metro-North system, with a shelter on the bare concrete low-level platform but no roof, and a 104-space parking lot across the street. A short distance west of the station, trains enter the 5,314-foot (1,620 m) long Otisville Tunnel under the Shawangunk Ridge, the longest in the Metro-North system and one of only two outside of the city. There is a long siding beginning just west of the station that allows trains to wait if one is coming through the tunnel. As a result, Otisville is technically a double-tracked station. When trains coming from the other direction are approaching, passengers board on the siding via a wooden platform on the tracks.
History
editOtisville station opened on November 1, 1846 as part of the extension of the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad (later Erie Railroad) from Middletown,[3] which had been the terminus since May 26, 1843.[4] This remained the case until December 31, 1847, when service was extended to Port Jervis.[3] The station was moved to its current location in January 1954 when the Erie realigned tracks between Howells and Graham station (in Guymard) onto the Graham Line, abandoning 11 miles (18 km) of the former main line.[2]
Station layout
editThe station has two tracks and a low-level side platform with a pathway connecting the platform to the bypass track.
References
edit- ^ a b "Otisville station". Metro-North Railroad. Retrieved July 7, 2023.
- ^ a b "Erie Will Send Traffic Through Tunnel Cutoff". The Journal-News. White Plains, New York. January 30, 1954. p. 5. Retrieved September 29, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b Hungerford, Edward (1946). Men of Erie: A Story of Human Effort. New York, New York: Random House. pp. 76–77.
- ^ "Now & Then Erie Railroad Station - Middletown". The Times Herald-Record. Middletown, New York. October 8, 2020. Retrieved September 26, 2021.
