Goldens Bridge station
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Goldens Bridge
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| Location | 1 Old Bedford Road at I-684 Goldens Bridge, New York |
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| Coordinates | 41°17′40″N 73°40′39″W / 41.2945°N 73.6776°WCoordinates: 41°17′40″N 73°40′39″W / 41.2945°N 73.6776°W | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 1 island platform | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Parking | 500+ meter spaces, 400+ permit | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disabled access | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Electrified | 1984 700V (DC) third rail |
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| Passengers (2007) | 296,944  0% |
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The Goldens Bridge Metro-North Railroad station serves the residents of Goldens Bridge, New York via the Harlem Line. It is 43.7 miles (70.3 km) from Grand Central Terminal and the average travel time to Grand Central is one hour, nine minutes. The station is located adjacent to Interstate 684 and is accessible to northbound travelers via Exit 6A (Routes 22 / 138).
This station is the northernmost station in the Zone 6 Metro-North fare zone.
Parking lots are available on both sides of the interstate; a parking permit or a daily fee is required. Metered parking fills up around 7:30 every morning on business days. Free parking is available on weekends and holidays. From trains in the vicinity of the station, it is possible to see the historic Bridge L-158 over Muscoot Reservoir. Once part of the railroad's Mahopac Branch, it is the only double-intersection Whipple truss rail bridge left in the state.
The New York and Harlem Railroad laid tracks for their main line through Golden's Bridge as far back as 1847. A station is known to have existed as far back as 1858, but may have existed earlier. The line was acquired by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad in 1864. In 1871, the vicinity of the station became a junction for the New York and Mahopac Railroad, a New York Central subsidiary better known as the Mahopac Branch, which connected the Harlem Division via Katonah to the Putnam Division in Mahopac. The New York Central-era station contained a water tower, a turntable, a privy, and an interlocking cabin known as "Cabin GN." The main station house was located where the southbound on-ramp to I-684 ends at the main road today. Among the industries used by the station were King Lumber and Plywood Supply and Sheffield Farms. The line was double-tracked from White Plains to Golden's Bridge in 1902, and then double-tracked to Brewster in 1909. In 1904, the nearby bridge for the Mahopac Branch over the Muscoot Reservoir, was replaced with Bridge L-158, a bridge originally used for the former West Shore Line at the mouth of Rondout Creek in Kingston. Between 1901 and 1915, the station was also intended to be the western terminus of the unfinished Danbury and Harlem Traction Company, a trolley line intended to connect the station to Danbury, Connecticut.
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