Pleasantville station

Pleasantville
Pleasantville
Location	400 Manville Road, Pleasantville, New York
Coordinates	41.1348°N 73.7923°W
Line(s)	Harlem Line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Bee-Line: 6, 15, 19
Construction
Parking	263 spaces
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	5
History
Opened	October 1846[1]
Rebuilt	1905, 1959
Electrified	1984; 700V (DC) third rail
Traffic
Passengers (2007)	311,845 0%
Services
Former services

The Pleasantville station is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line, located in Pleasantville, New York. Trains leave or arrive approximately every 20 minutes during peak periods, hourly otherwise. It is 30.5 miles (49.1 km) from Grand Central Terminal and travel time there is approximately 49 minutes. There is also bus service to the station from Pace University.

This station is located in the Zone 5 Metro-North fare zone.

History

The New York and Harlem Railroad laid tracks through Pleasantville during the 1840s. Evidence of the existence of Pleasantville station can be found as far back as October 1846.[2]^:14 The existing station house was built by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad in 1905.[3] The station also had freight sidings for the shipping department of the headquarters of Reader's Digest.[2]^:106 On December 20, 1956, New York State opened up bids for the elimination of several grade crossings in Pleasantville, though the project was originally planned by New York Central 25 years earlier. The project was expected to cost $3.857 million. The tracks were lowered for 7,000 feet (2,100 m), new bridges were built over the railroad for Manville and Bedford Roads (current and former NY 117 respectively), and the station house was moved.[4] The project was finished by 1959. As with most of the Harlem Line, the merger of New York Central with Pennsylvania Railroad in 1968 transformed the station into a Penn Central Railroad station. Penn Central's continuous financial despair throughout the 1970s forced them to turn over their commuter service to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority which made it part of Metro-North in 1983. When the Harlem Line was electrified between North White Plains and Brewster North in 1984, less reconstruction was required at Pleasantville than with other stations.

Station layout

This station has one six-car-long high-level island platform serving trains in both directions.[5]^:12

M	Mezzanine	Exit/entrance and parking
P Platform level	Track 2	← Harlem Line toward Grand Central (Hawthorne)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left or right
	Track 1	← Harlem Line toward Southeast (Chappaqua) →

Bibliography

Hyatt, Elijah Clarence (1898). History of the New York & Harlem Railroad. Retrieved May 21, 2020.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

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References

Hyatt 1898, p. 14.
Grogan, Louis V. (1989). The Coming of the New York and Harlem Railroad. Self-Published. ISBN 0-962120-65-0.
"Existing Railway stations in Westchester County, New York". Archived from the original on 2019-12-31. Retrieved 2014-07-09.
"WESTCHESTER SET FOR TWO BIG JOBS; State Opens Bids Dec.20 for Pleasantville Crossing and New Expressway Work". The New York Times. November 24, 1956. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 23, 2017.
"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

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[FOOTNOTEHyatt189814-1] Hyatt 1898, p. 14.

[:0-2] Grogan, Louis V. (1989). The Coming of the New York and Harlem Railroad. Self-Published. ISBN 0-962120-65-0.

[3] "Existing Railway stations in Westchester County, New York". Archived from the original on 2019-12-31. Retrieved 2014-07-09.

[4] "WESTCHESTER SET FOR TWO BIG JOBS; State Opens Bids Dec.20 for Pleasantville Crossing and New Expressway Work". The New York Times. November 24, 1956. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 23, 2017.

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