Peekskill station

41°17′06″N 73°55′51″W / 41.28500°N 73.93083°W / 41.28500; -73.93083Line(s)Hudson LinePlatforms1 side platform
1 island platformTracks4Connections Bee-Line Bus System: 16, 18, 31ConstructionParking488 spacesAccessibleYesOther informationFare zone6HistoryOpenedSeptember 29, 1849^[1]Rebuilt1874Passengers20181,598^[2] (Metro-North)Rank39 of 109^[2] Services

Preceding station	Metro-North Railroad			Following station
Manitou toward Poughkeepsie		Hudson Line limited service		Cortlandt toward Grand Central
Garrison toward Poughkeepsie		Hudson Line

Former services
Preceding station Metro-North Railroad Following station Manitou toward Poughkeepsie Hudson Line Montrose closed 1995 toward Grand Central Preceding station New York Central Railroad Following station Manitou toward Chicago Main Line Harmon toward New York Terminus Hudson Division Montrose toward New York

Peekskill station is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Hudson Line, located in Peekskill, New York.

The former station building built by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad in 1874^[3] still stands, although it is no longer staffed.^[4]

History

Rail service in Peekskill began on September 29, 1849 with the Hudson River Railroad.^[1] The freight depot was the site of a February 19, 1861 visit by Abraham Lincoln who stopped there during his train trip to his inauguration. The railroad was acquired by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad in November 1869, and they rebuilt the passenger station in 1874. NYC&HR rebuilt the freight depot around 1890 and today it is on the National Register of Historic Places, as is the Standard House which served the railroad, as well as ships on the Hudson River.

A 1943 New York Central schedule lists Peekskill as the northern terminus of its Hudson Division commuter service. Trains continuing north of Peekskill were "long distance" trains, continuing not just to Poughkeepsie but also to Albany and other destinations.

With the railroads in decline during the post-WW II era, New York Central merged with their long time rival Pennsylvania Railroad in 1968 and the station became a Penn Central station. Amtrak took over intercity passenger service in 1971, but Peekskill station continued to serve only the expanded Penn Central Hudson Division trains which by that time ran to Poughkeepsie and were subsidized by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Conrail took over Penn Central in 1976 and ran Hudson Branch trains as far north as Albany until 1981 when they reverted to Poughkeepsie where it has remained ever since. MTA assigned the station to the newly established Metro-North Commuter Railroad in 1983.

Station layout

The station has four tracks and two high-level side platforms each six cars long. Tracks 4 and 6 terminate at the north end of the station while tracks 1 and 2 continue on.^[5]: 5 The station is located just south of a grade crossing.

References

External links

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

• Metro-North station page for Peekskill
• List of upcoming Metro-North train departure times and track assignments from MTA
• Peekskill Metro-North Hudson Line Station (Road and Rail Pictures)
• Entrance from Google Maps Street View