Towner's was a station on the Harlem Line of the New York Central Railroad (now Metro-North Railroad). It was 58 miles from Grand Central Terminal. The station dates as far back as December 31, 1848 and was closed when the New York Central merged into Penn Central in 1968.[4][5] No station structures remain at the site.
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 Location of the former Towners station. Note the Maybrook-Beacon Line truss bridge in the background. | |||||||||||
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| Location | New York State Route 164 Patterson, New York | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°28′46″N 73°36′37″W / 41.4794°N 73.6102°W | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | December 31, 1848[1][2] | ||||||||||
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| January 1958 | Station agent eliminated[3] | ||||||||||
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Towners Station was located off New York State Route 164 just north of a bridge that carries the former New York and New England Railroad main line (now the Metro-North Beacon Line) over the tracks. The Beacon Line had a separate station nearby.[6]
Bibliography
edit- Dana, William B. (1866). The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 55. New York, New York: William B. Dana. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
References
edit- ^ Dana 1866, p. 216.
- ^ "New York and Harlem Railroad ---- Winter Arrangement". The Evening Post. New York, New York. December 12, 1849. p. 4. Retrieved December 12, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Central to Close Towners Station". The Poughkeepsie Journal. January 22, 1968. p. 17. Retrieved December 13, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Harlem Division Timetable". New York Central Railroad. July 12, 1959. Retrieved April 12, 2011.
- ^ "Harlem Division Timetable". Penn Central Railroad. February 5, 1968. Archived from the original on August 31, 2010. Retrieved April 12, 2011.
- ^ "The Maybrook Line across Dutchess County". Archived from the original on 2014-10-07. Retrieved 2014-08-16.
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