Kensico Cemetery station

Kensico Cemetery
1893 image of the former Kensico Cemetery station
General information
Location	273 Lakeview Avenue Valhalla, NY, 10595
Coordinates	41°04′55.9″N 73°47′03.6″W
Line(s)	Harlem Line
Tracks	2
History
Opened	December 1891[1]
Closed	1983
Rebuilt	1902
Former services
Preceding station Metro-North Railroad Following station Valhalla toward Grand Central Harlem Line limited service Mount Pleasant toward Wassaic Preceding station New York Central Railroad Following station Valhalla toward New York Harlem Division Mount Pleasant toward Chatham
Location

Kensico Cemetery station was a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line that served the nearby Kensico Cemetery, to the north of Lakeview Avenue. Located along the platform behind the buildings at Sharon Gardens,[2] the station was similar to the still-existent and nearby Mount Pleasant station in which it served friends and family of those buried there instead of actual commuters.^[citation needed]

By the late 1970s the low-level station saw only three trains a day on weekends, and was a flag stop for one train on weekdays.[3] Upon the electrification of the Harlem Line between North White Plains and Brewster North in 1983, the station was closed[4] given its redundancy to Mount Pleasant and the cost to modernize the station.

References

1. "New Station on the New York Central". Buffalo Evening News. December 18, 1891. p. 13. Retrieved June 24, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
2. "Existing Railroad Stations of Westchester County, New York". Archived from the original on December 31, 2019. Retrieved February 9, 2015.
3. Harlem Line timetable effective October 30, 1977
4. Station no longer appears on timetable effective April 24, 1983

2009 image of the low-level platform next to the Grand Central-bound tracks