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The planned Penn Station Access project would send some Hudson Line trains to Penn Station along the Empire Connection, with two new intermediate stops along the west side of Manhattan. The Hudson Line is colored green on Metro-North timetables and system maps, and stations on the line have green trim.
Tracks in Penn Station and on the LIRR use over-running third rail. Any Metro-North cars traveling from the Hudson Line to Penn Station would have to be specially equipped to operate with both current collection systems. This phase includes a proposal for two new Metro-North stations to be served by the Hudson Line.
Station Line Municipality County Former railroad Opened Closed Notes Chester Port Jervis Line: Village of Chester: Orange, NY: Erie: April 16, 1983 Croton North Hudson Line: Croton-on-Hudson: Westchester, NY: New York Central: 1890s 1983 1960s 1984 Briefly reopened by Metro-North Crugers Hudson Line: Crugers: Westchester, NY: New York Central
Hudson Line (Metro-North), a commuter line from New York City north to Poughkeepsie; Hudson Subdivision a rail line continuing north from Poughkeepsie to Rensselaer, owned by CSX and leased by Amtrak; West Side Line in New York City, now owned by Amtrak from New York Penn Station north to Spuyten Duyvil High Line, the abandoned West Side Line ...
The West Side Line, also called the West Side Freight Line, is a railroad line on the west side of the New York City borough of Manhattan.North of Penn Station, from 34th Street, the line is used by Amtrak passenger service heading north via Albany to Toronto; Montreal; Niagara Falls and Buffalo, New York; Burlington, Vermont; and Chicago.
The exterior of Penn Station in 1911 Penn Station's interior in the 1930s One of few remnants of the original station still in use, a staircase between tracks 3 and 4. A small portion of Penn Station opened on September 8, 1910, in conjunction with the opening of the East River Tunnels, and LIRR riders gained direct railroad service to ...
While the Hudson Tunnel Project would double the number of tracks under the Hudson River, it would not result in an increase in rail capacity due to constraints at Penn Station. Penn Station operates at capacity during peak periods, and since it takes a long time for passengers to board and alight trains, trains cannot leave and enter the ...
Cuomo endorsed the New Haven Line portion of the Penn Station Access project in his 2014 State of the State speech, stating that some Sandy recovery money could pay for the project's cost of over $1 billion. He did not mention the Hudson Line portion of the project. [88]