Brewster station
Brewster | ||||||||||||||||
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Metro-North | ||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Harlem Line | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island platform | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Connections | Putnam Transit: PART 1 Housatonic Area Regional Transit: 3, Danbury Shuttle | |||||||||||||||
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| Parking | 517 spaces | |||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | |||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 7 | |||||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||||
| Opened | December 31, 1848[1][2] | |||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1931[3] | |||||||||||||||
| Electrified | 1984 700V (DC) third rail | |||||||||||||||
| Passengers | ||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | 1,174[4] (Metro-North) | |||||||||||||||
| Rank | 54 of 109[4] | |||||||||||||||
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Brewster station is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line, located in Brewster, New York.
A sizable amount of the station's ridership comes from across the Connecticut state line given the quicker trips, shorter headways, and (outside peak hours) lack of a mid-trip transfer to Grand Central as opposed to taking the Danbury Branch of the New Haven Line. Because of this, Housatonic Area Regional Transit (the Greater Danbury-area mass transit provider) has a route and a shuttle connecting Danbury to Brewster station.
History
Railway service in Brewster can be traced as far back as December 31, 1848 when the
On March 7, 1913, the NY&P officially became the
It was one of the stations on the Harlem Line to serve the Berkshire Hills Express and other limited stop trains that went from New York City all the way to Pittsfield, Massachusetts and North Adams, Massachusetts in the Berkshires.[8][9] Such through trains were replaced by shuttle transfers in 1950.[10]
As with most of the Harlem Line, the merger of New York Central with
The station itself which dates back to 1931, is located next to downtown Brewster, on
Station layout
The station has one four-car-long high-level island platform serving trains in both directions.[11]: 13
Notes
- ^ Dana 1866, p. 216.
- ^ a b "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.
- ^ Existing Railroad Stations in Putnam County, New York
- ^ a b METRO-NORTH 2018 WEEKDAY STATION BOARDINGS. Market Analysis/Fare Policy Group:OPERATIONS PLANNING AND ANALYSIS DEPARTMENT:Metro-North Railroad. April 2019. p. 6.
- ^ Beers 1867 Atlas "Atlas of New York and Vicinity from Actual Surveys by and Under the Direction of F.W. Beers, A.D. Ellis and G.G. Soule, New York 1867"
- ISBN 0-915276-29-1.
- ^ Schiavone, Joe; Brian Vangor (2007). The Old Put. Merit Printing & Publishing.
- ^ "New York Central Railroad, Tables 6, 98". Official Guide of the Railways. 64 (9). National Railway Publication Company. February 1932.
- ^ "New York Central Railroad, Tables 11, 90". Official Guide of the Railways. 71 (3). National Railway Publication Company. August 1938.
- ^ New York Central June 1950 timetable, Table 42
- ^ "Metro-North Railroad Track & Structures Department Track Charts Maintenance Program Interlocking Diagrams & Yard Diagrams 2015" (PDF). Metro-North Railroad. 2015. Retrieved January 28, 2019.
References
- Dana, William B. (1866). The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 55. New York, New York: William B. Dana. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
External links
Media related to Brewster (Metro-North station) at Wikimedia Commons
