Dover Plains
Southbound train departing
General information
Location	Market Street and Mill Street,Dover Plains, New York
Coordinates	41°44′34″N73°34′34″W / 41.7427°N 73.5762°W /41.7427; -73.5762
Line	Harlem Line
Platforms	1side platform
Tracks	1
Connections	Dutchess County Public Transit: D
Construction
Accessible	yes
Other information
Fare zone	9
History
Opened	December 31, 1848[2][3]
Rebuilt	1860; August 19, 1996[4]
Passengers
2018	105[1] (Metro-North)
Rank	100 of109[1]
Services
Preceding station Metro-North Railroad Following station Harlem Valley–Wingdale towardSoutheast orGrand Central Harlem Line Tenmile River towardWassaic
Former services
Preceding station New York Central Railroad Following station Dover Furnace towardNew York Harlem Division State School towardChatham
Location

Dover Plains station is acommuter rail stop on theMetro-North Railroad'sHarlem Line, located inDover, New York.

Rail service in Dover Plains can be traced as far back as December 31, 1848 with the establishment of theNew York and Harlem Railroad,^[3] which became part of theNew York Central and Hudson River Railroad in 1864 and eventually taken over by theNew York Central Railroad (NYC).

Besides passenger service, freight service also originated and stopped at this location, in both directions north and south. It even contained a nearby railroad hotel. Under the New York Central, for the first five decades of the 20th century the station hosted through trains such as theBerkshire Hills Express toNorth Adams, Massachusetts via other towns in theBerkshires section of Massachusetts.

As with most of the Harlem Line, the merger of New York Central withPennsylvania Railroad in 1968 transformed the station into aPenn Central Railroad station. Penn Central's continuous financial despair throughout the 1970s forced them to turn over their commuter service to theMetropolitan Transportation Authority and abandon service north of Dover Plains, thus transforming it into a terminal station in 1972. Freight service north of Dover Plains was abandoned byConrail on March 27, 1980. The ticket office was closed in September 1981. The line itself became part of Metro-North in 1983. The 1860-built NYC station house contained a bagel restaurant,^[5] until it was closed in the 2010s, and left vacant, and the former freight house also still exists.^[6] Dover Plains was a terminal station until 2000 when Metro-North expanded the line back toWassaic.

The station has one four-car-long high-levelside platform to the west of the track.^[7]: 16

• Dana, William B. (1866).The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 55. New York, New York: William B. Dana. RetrievedDecember 12, 2019.

• Media related toDover Plains (Metro-North station) at Wikimedia Commons

• Metro-North station page for Dover Plains
• List of upcoming Metro-North train departure times and track assignments from MTA
• Dover Plains Station (Road and Rail Pictures)
• October 16, 1993 Long Island Sunrise Trail Chapter NRHS Fantrip (TrainsAreFun)

• Metro-North Railroad stations in New York (state)
• Railway stations in the United States opened in 1848
• Former New York Central Railroad stations
• Railway stations in Dutchess County, New York
• 1848 establishments in New York (state)
• Transportation in Dutchess County, New York

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