Williams Bridge station

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Coordinates: 40°52′44″N 73°52′15″W / 40.8788°N 73.8707°W / 40.8788; -73.8707
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Williams Bridge
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
toward Grand Central
 Harlem Line Woodlawn
toward North White Plains
     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

Williams Bridge station (also known as Williams Bridge–East 210th Street station) is a

Gun Hill Road and Webster Avenue. The station has two offset high-level side platforms, each four cars long, serving the outer tracks of the four-track line.[3]
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History

Williams Bridge station, ca. 1849

The

New York Central and Hudson River Railroad in 1864, and later the New York Central Railroad (NYC). The Williams Bridge station building was located at the southeast corner of the Gun Hill Road bridge. The Third Avenue Elevated
passed over the station from 1920 to 1973.

The NYC merged into

Penn Central in 1968, which in turn merged into Conrail in 1976. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) took over the service in 1983 as the Metro-North Railroad Harlem Line. A parking lot was located on the south side of the Gun Hill Road bridge on the east side of the tracks until the 1990s. The southbound on-ramp to the Bronx River Parkway
had two way traffic between Gun Hill Road and the parking lot; it was called Newell Street between those two points.

In January 2020, the MTA announced plans for renovations of Williams Bridge, Woodlawn, and Botanical Garden stations, including elevators and new stairs at Williams Bridge.[4] The northbound platform was temporarily closed on January 8, 2021, due to deterioration of the stairway.[5][6] Temporary stairs were built for both platforms that year and were replaced during a closure of the station from June 20 to July 12, 2023.[7] The MTA opened bidding on a design-build contract for the three stations in December 2023.[8]

References

  1. Indianapolis, Indiana
    : Bobbs-Merrill Company. p. 984. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "Metro-North Railroad Track & Structures Department Track Charts Maintenance Program Interlocking Diagrams & Yard Diagrams 2015" (PDF). Metro-North Railroad. 2015. Retrieved January 28, 2019.
  4. ^ "Metro-North Railroad to make three stations accessible". Progressive Railroading. January 9, 2020. Retrieved January 15, 2024.
  5. ^ Zambito, Thomas C. (April 2, 2021). "Longtime stairway shutdown on Metro-North line raises charges of ignoring hospital workers". Rockland/Westchester Journal News. Archived from the original on January 16, 2024.
  6. ^ "Williams Bridge Station Track 3 Stairway Closed for Repairs" (PDF). Metro-North Railroad. January 8, 2021. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 15, 2021.
  7. ^ "MTA Advises Customers of Upcoming Station Repair Work at Williams Bridge Metro-North Station" (Press release). Metro-North Railroad. June 6, 2023.
  8. ^ "Contract Solicitation Notice/Project Overview". Metro-North Railroad. December 20, 2023.

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