New Hamburg station

New Hamburg
Poughkeepsie-bound Metro North train arriving at the New Hamburg station
Location	Main Street New Hamburg, NY, 12590
Coordinates	41°35′20″N 73°56′52″W / 41.5889°N 73.9479°W / 41.5889; -73.9479Coordinates: 41°35′20″N 73°56′52″W / 41.5889°N 73.9479°W / 41.5889; -73.9479
Owned by	Metro-North Railroad
Line(s)	Empire Corridor   Hudson Line
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	Dutchess County Public Transit: New Hamburg RailLink
Construction
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	8
History
Opened	1850s
Closed	July 2, 1973
Rebuilt	October 17, 1981
Traffic
Passengers (2006)	259,220  0%
Services
Preceding station   Metro-North Railroad   Following station Beacon toward Grand Central Hudson Line Poughkeepsie Terminus   Former services   New York Central Railroad Poughkeepsie toward Chicago Main Line Chelsea toward New York City

The New Hamburg Metro-North Railroad station serves the residents of the Wappingers Falls, New York and the Town of Poughkeepsie, New York via the Hudson Line. Trains leave for New York City every hour on weekdays, and about every 25 minutes during rush hour. It is 65 miles (105 km) from Grand Central Terminal and travel time to Grand Central is approximately one hour, 36 minutes.

The Hudson River Railroad was built through New Hamburg in the 1850 in order to expand the Troy and Greenbush Railroad from the Albany area to New York City. Earlier attempts to build the railroad in 1848 were HRR delayed by a fatal cholera outbreak among railroad workers between 1848 and 1849. The HRR was acquired by the New York Central Railroad in 1864.

The New Hamburg station bisects the hamlet's Main Street. Old photographs show a grade crossing used to exist here; since the line was double-tracked in 1928, however, getting from one end of Main Street to the other has required a detour via nearby Bridge Street. Another bridge further north on Reed Road is the only other crossing in the hamlet.

New Hamburg is notable as one of the few in the Metro-North system to have closed and reopened; the original New Hamburg station was closed by the Penn Central Railroad in 1973 and reopened on October 17, 1981 afer the MTA took over the line. Another notable fact about the station is that the distance between it and Poughkeepsie — 8.5 miles (13.7 km) — is the longest such distance between stations on the Hudson Line (on any Metro-North main line, in fact) and the third-longest system-wide.

This station has two high-level side platforms each six cars long.