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In February 2021, Metro-North filed to abandon a 41-mile (66 km) segment of the Beacon Line between Beacon and the New York-Connecticut border, pursuant to the Housatonic Railroad's trackage rights being resolved. This would allow for the extension of the Empire State Trail. [16] Housatonic indicated its opposition to the proposed abandonment. [17]
Rail service in Hawthorne can be traced as far back as 1847, when the New York and Harlem Railroad built a line and a railroad station with the name "Unionville", the former name of Hawthorne itself. The railroad and the station became part of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad in 1864 and was eventually taken over by the New York ...
Built by Metro-North Ardsley-on-Hudson Hudson Line: Irvington: Westchester, NY: New York Central ‡ Circa 1896 Beacon Hudson Line: Beacon: Dutchess, NY: New York Central and New Haven: 1915 Replaced Fishkill Landing station, originally built by the Hudson River Railroad; Also served the ND&C (later CNE, then New Haven Railroads) Beacon Falls
Metro-North maintenance train going through Beacon on the Hudson Line. Metro-North began upgrading its Operations Control Center in Grand Central Terminal in 2008. All control hardware was replaced and software upgrades were performed. The new OCC at Grand Central opened over the weekend of July 18, 2010. [56]
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Beacon station is a commuter rail station on the Metro-North Railroad Hudson Line located in Beacon, New York. The station has three tracks, with one island platform and one side platform. The station has three tracks, with one island platform and one side platform.
[58]: 2 [59] The Metro-North Railroad purchased the New York portion of the line from Maybrook Properties in January 1995 as the Beacon Line. [60] [61] [62] Metro-North filed for federal permission for adverse abandonment of the line in 2021; the Housatonic, which retained freight rights on the line; opposed. [58]
It is the northernmost station in Passaic County along New Jersey Transit's Main Line. Trains coming through Hawthorne service Waldwick , Suffern and Port Jervis to the north and Hoboken Terminal to the south, where connections are available to New York City via Port Authority Trans-Hudson and ferries.