Williams Bridge station

Williams Bridge station (also known as Williams Bridge–East 210th Street station) is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line, serving the Williamsbridge and Norwood sections of the Bronx, New York City. The station is located at the intersection of Gun Hill Road and Webster Avenue.

Williams Bridge
Williams Bridge station in July 2019
General information
Location402 Gun Hill Road, Norwood, Bronx, New York
Coordinates40.8788°N 73.8707°W / 40.8788; -73.8707
Owned byMetro-North Railroad
Line(s)Harlem Line
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks4
ConnectionsNew York City Subway:
"2" train"5" train at Gun Hill Road
New York City Bus: Bx28, Bx30, Bx38, Bx41
Other information
Fare zone2
History
OpenedSeptember 3, 1842[1]
Passengers
2018867[2] (Metro-North)
Rank58 of 109[2]
Services
Preceding station Metro-North Railroad Following station
Botanical Garden Harlem Line Woodlawn
     New Haven Line does not stop here
Former services
Preceding station New York Central Railroad Following station
Botanical Garden
toward New York
Harlem Division Woodlawn
toward Chatham

History

Williams Bridge station, ca. 1849

Rail service in Williams Bridge can be traced as far back as 1842 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. Williams Bridge Station itself, which was originally built sometime in the 19th century, originally had a station house on the southeast corner of the Gun Hill Road bridge and even had a turntable.

From 1920 through 1973, the 210th Street–Williamsbridge station of the elevated IRT Third Avenue Line was close to the Williams Bridge station.[3] The Third Avenue Line used to curve from Webster Avenue over Gun Hill Road, then crossed over the Harlem Line tracks on a two-level bridge carrying Gun Hill Road and the Third Avenue El.[4] The line terminated at Gun Hill Road station on the IRT White Plains Road Line, along White Plains Road to the east.

As with many NYCRR stations in the Bronx, the station became a Penn Central station once the NYC & Pennsylvania Railroads merged in 1968. Penn Central's continuous financial despair throughout the 1970s forced them to turn over their commuter service to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The station and the railroad were turned over to Conrail in 1976, and eventually became part of the MTA's Metro-North Railroad in 1983. Access to a parking lot on the site of the former station house was available from the southbound on-ramp of the Bronx River Parkway, which had two way traffic from Gun Hill Road to the parking lot until the 1990s, and was named Newell Street between those two points.

Station layout

The station has two offset high-level side platforms, each four cars long[5]:10 and accessible from East Gun Hill Road (East 210th Street). When trains stop at the station, normally the front four open cars receive and discharge passengers.

G Street level Exit/entrance and buses
P
Platform level
Side platform, doors will open on the right
Track 4      Harlem Line toward Grand Central (Fordham)
     New Haven Line does not stop here
Track 2           Harlem Line and New Haven Line express service does not stop here
Track 1           Harlem Line and New Haven Line express service does not stop here →
Track 3      New Haven Line does not stop here →
     Harlem Line toward North White Plains (Woodlawn)
Side platform, doors will open on the right

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