Pleasantville station

Pleasantville station is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line, located in Pleasantville, New York. There is also bus service to the station from Pace University.

Pleasantville
General information
Location400 Manville Road, Pleasantville, New York
Coordinates41.1348°N 73.7923°W / 41.1348; -73.7923
Line(s)Harlem Line
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
ConnectionsBee-Line: 6, 15, 19
Construction
Parking263 spaces
AccessibleYes
Other information
Fare zone5
History
OpenedOctober 1846[1]
Rebuilt1905, 1959
Electrified1984
700V (DC) third rail
Passengers
20181,348[2] (Metro-North)
Rank46 of 109[2]
Services
Preceding station Metro-North Railroad Following station
Hawthorne
toward Grand Central
 Harlem Line Chappaqua
toward Southeast
Former services
Preceding station Metro-North Railroad Following station
Thornwood
closed 1984
toward Grand Central
 Harlem Line Chappaqua
toward Wassaic
Preceding station New York Central Railroad Following station
Thornwood
toward New York
 Harlem Division Chappaqua
toward Chatham

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.[3]: 14  The existing station house was built by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad in 1905.[4] The station also had freight sidings for the shipping department of the headquarters of Reader's Digest.[3]: 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.[5] 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

The station has one six-car-long high-level island platform serving trains in both directions.[6]: 12 

Bibliography
  • Hyatt, Elijah Clarence (1898). History of the New York & Harlem Railroad. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

References
  1. Hyatt 1898, p. 14.
  2. METRO-NORTH 2018 WEEKDAY STATION BOARDINGS. Market Analysis/Fare Policy Group:OPERATIONS PLANNING AND ANALYSIS DEPARTMENT:Metro-North Railroad. April 2019. p. 6.
  3. Grogan, Louis V. (1989). The Coming of the New York and Harlem Railroad. Self-Published. ISBN 0-962120-65-0.
  4. "Existing Railway stations in Westchester County, New York". Archived from the original on December 31, 2019. Retrieved July 9, 2014.
  5. "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.
  6. "Metro-North Railroad Track & Structures Department Track Charts Maintenance Program Interlocking Diagrams & Yard Diagrams 2015" (PDF). Metro-North Railroad. 2015. Retrieved January 28, 2019.


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