Tannersville station (New York)

This article is about the former Ulster and Delaware Railroad station. For other uses, see Tannersville station.

Tannersville
General information
Location	Tannersville, Greene County. New York
Tracks	1
History
Opened	June 1883[1][2]
Closed	January 22, 1940[3][2]
Key dates
February 21, 1940	Station agent eliminated[4]
March 2, 1966	Station depot burned[5]
Services
Preceding station New York Central Railroad Following station Haines Falls toward Kaaterskill Kaaterskill Branch Kaaterskill Junction toward Phoenicia

Tannersville Station was a train station in Tannersville, New York operated by the Ulster and Delaware Railroad. It ceased operation in 1940 and was burned down on March 2, 1966.[5]

History

The original station at Tannersvile, New York, branch MP 14.6, was architecturally similar to the Lanesville station; a small building with a platform on each end, was also torn down in 1899, after the Kaaterskill Railroad was standard-gauged by the U&D in 1899.

The new Tannersville station was a fabricated station made for the U&D in the early 1900s. This station had the typical frame of a U&D pre-fab station, but had three platforms; one on the left, one on the right, and another as an extension at the back of the station.

Tannersville was considered to be a successful year-round station, although branches of the U&D later became summer-only operations.

Tannersville's terminal was still standing after U&D's branches were abandoned in 1939 and scrapped in 1940. The terminal was then purchased by the town of Hunter in order to function as town offices and a snowplow garage.

The terminal was razed by a fire on March 2, 1966, along with three trucks and power equipment.[5]

Bibliography

• Interstate Commerce Commission (1940). Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States (Finance Reports). Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office. Retrieved May 6, 2021.
• National Railroad Adjustment Board (1941). Awards 1451 to 1550 Interpretations Third Division. La Grange, Illinois: Suburban Printers and Publishers Inc. Retrieved March 1, 2020.

References

1. Hibbard, F.B. (July 3, 1883). "Kaaterskill Railroad". The New York Tribune. p. 6. Retrieved May 6, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
2. Interstate Commerce Commission 1940, p. 156.
3. "Mountain Branches Allowed to Suspend". The Kingston Daily Freeman. January 22, 1940. p. 1. Retrieved May 6, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
4. National Railroad Adjustment Board 1941, p. 212.
5. Wilson, R.D. (December 31, 1966). "Death, Blaze Provided Ominous Start for 1966". The Kingston Daily Freeman. pp. 13, 20. Retrieved April 30, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.

External links

• Ulster and Delaware Railroad Historical Society map Archived 2015-12-21 at the Wayback Machine