Dover Plains station

Dover Plains
Southbound train departing
Location	Market Street & Mill Street Dover Plains, New York, 12522
Coordinates	41°44′34″N 73°34′34″W / 41.7427°N 73.5762°W / 41.7427; -73.5762Coordinates: 41°44′34″N 73°34′34″W / 41.7427°N 73.5762°W / 41.7427; -73.5762
Line(s)	Harlem Line
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	1
Connections	Dutchess County Public Transit: D
Construction
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	9
History
Opened	1848
Rebuilt	1860; August 19, 1996[1]
Traffic
Passengers (2007)	46,540  0%
Services
Preceding station   Metro-North Railroad   Following station Harlem Valley–Wingdale toward Grand Central Harlem Line Tenmile River toward Wassaic   Former services   New York Central Railroad State School toward Chatham Harlem Division Dover Furnace toward New York

The Dover Plains station is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line, located in Dover Plains, New York. Trains leave for New York City every two hours, and about every 30 minutes during rush hour. It is 76.5 miles (123 km) from Grand Central Terminal and travel time to Grand Central is approximately two hours, two minutes.

The 7.5-mile (12 km) distance from Dover Plains to Harlem Valley–Wingdale, the next station to the south, is the longest between two stations on the Harlem Line.

Contents

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  1 History
  


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  2 Platform and track configuration
  


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  3 References
  


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  4 External links
  

History

Rail service in Dover Plains can be traced as far back as December 1, 1848^[2] with the establishment of the New York and Harlem Railroad, which became part of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad in 1864 and eventually taken over by the New York Central Railroad. Besides passenger service, freight service also originated and stopped at this location, in both directions north and south. It even contained a nearby railroad hotel.

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 and abandon service north of Dover Plains, thus transforming it into a terminal station in 1972. Freight service north of Dover Plains was abandoned by Conrail on March 27, 1980. The ticket officee was closed in September 1981. The line itself became part of Metro-North in 1983. The 1860-built NYCRR station house, now abandoned, more recently contained a local Bagel restaurant,^[3] and the former freight house also still exists.^[4] Dover Plains was a terminal station until 2000 when Metro-North expanded the line back to Wassaic.

Platform and track configuration

This station has one four-car-long high-level side platform to the west of the track.

P Platform level	Street level	Exit/entrance and parking
	Side platform, doors will open on the left or right
	Track 1	← Harlem Line toward Southeast or Grand Central (Harlem Valley–Wingdale) Harlem Line toward Wassaic (Tenmile River) →

References

1. 
   ^ Nicole R. Stokes (August 20, 1996). "New Railroad Station Debuts". Poughkeepsie Journal. p. 3B. Retrieved November 21, 2017 – via Newspapers.com..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
   
   


2. 
   ^ Grogan, Louis V. (1989). The Coming of the New York and Harlem Railroad. Self-Published. p. 15. ISBN 0-962120- 65-0.
   


3. 
   ^ Old Dover Plains Passenger Station (Existing Railroad Stations in Dutchess County, New York)
   


4. 
   ^ Old Dover Plains Freight Station (Existing Railroad Stations in Dutchess County, New York)
   

External links

• 
  Media related to Dover Plains (Metro-North station) at Wikimedia Commons


• Metro-North Railroad - Dover Plains


• List of upcoming train departure times from MTA


• Dover Plains Station (Road and Rail Pictures)


• October 16, 1993 Long Island Sunrise Trail Chapter NRHS Fantrip (TrainsAreFun)

v t e Metro-North Railroad stations
Manhattan main line	Grand Central Harlem–125th Street
Harlem Line	Melrose Tremont Fordham Botanical Garden Williams Bridge Woodlawn Wakefield Mount Vernon West Fleetwood Bronxville Tuckahoe Crestwood Scarsdale Hartsdale White Plains North White Plains Valhalla Kensico Cemetery Mount Pleasant Hawthorne Thornwood Pleasantville Chappaqua Mount Kisco Bedford Hills Katonah Goldens Bridge Purdy's Croton Falls Brewster Southeast Patterson Pawling Appalachian Trail Harlem Valley–Wingdale Dover Plains Tenmile River Wassaic
Hudson Line	Grand Central service Yankees–East 153rd Street Highbridge Morris Heights University Heights Marble Hill Spuyten Duyvil Penn Station service New York Penn Station (planned) Upper West Side (planned) West 125th Street (planned) Riverdale Ludlow Yonkers Glenwood Greystone Hastings-on-Hudson Dobbs Ferry Ardsley-on-Hudson Irvington Tarrytown Philipse Manor Scarborough Ossining Croton–Harmon Croton North Crugers Cortlandt Montrose Peekskill Manitou Garrison Cold Spring Breakneck Ridge Beacon New Hamburg Poughkeepsie
New Haven Line	Grand Central service Fordham Mount Vernon East Pelham Penn Station service New York Penn Station (planned) Hunts Point (planned) Parkchester (planned) Morris Park (planned) Co-Op City (planned) New Rochelle Larchmont Mamaroneck Harrison Rye Port Chester Greenwich Cos Cob Riverside Old Greenwich Stamford Noroton Heights Darien Rowayton South Norwalk East Norwalk Westport Green's Farms Southport Fairfield Fairfield Metro Bridgeport Barnum (planned) Stratford Milford Orange (planned) West Haven New Haven New Haven State Street New Canaan Branch Stamford East Stamford (proposed) Glenbrook Springdale Talmadge Hill New Canaan Danbury Branch South Norwalk Merritt 7 Kent Road Wilton Cannondale Georgetown (proposed) Branchville Redding Bethel Danbury North Danbury (proposed) Brookfield (proposed) New Milford (proposed) Waterbury Branch Bridgeport Stratford Derby–Shelton Ansonia Seymour Beacon Falls Naugatuck Waterbury
Pascack Valley Line	← (NJT Pascack Valley Line to Hoboken) Pearl River Nanuet Spring Valley
Port Jervis Line	Hoboken Secaucus Junction (Intermediate stops made by Main Line and/or Bergen County Line) Ramsey Route 17 Mahwah Suffern Sloatsburg Tuxedo Harriman Monroe Salisbury Mills–Cornwall Chester Campbell Hall Goshen Middletown–Town of Wallkill Otisville Port Jervis
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