Valhalla | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Northbound view of Valhalla station from the southbound side of the platform. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | 2 Cleveland Street,Valhalla, New York | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°04′24″N73°46′22″W / 41.0732°N 73.7729°W /41.0732; -73.7729 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line | Harlem Line | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1island platform | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Connections | Bee-Line: 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parking | 191 spaces | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Accessible | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Opened | 1890 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Electrified | 1984 700V (DC)third rail | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | 467[1] (Metro-North) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | 75 of109[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Valhalla station is acommuter rail stop on theMetro-North Railroad'sHarlem Line, located inMount Pleasant, New York.
Rail service in Valhalla can be traced as far back as 1846, with the establishment of theNew York and Harlem Railroad, which installed a station named "Davis Brook," but by 1851 the name had been changed to "Kensico." The NY&H became part of theNew York Central and Hudson River Railroad in 1864 and eventually taken over by theNew York Central Railroad. By the late-1880s Kensico and the rail line that ran through it were relocated to make way for theKensico Reservoir despite protests from the community lasting for the rest of the century, and the community that replaced it was named "Valhalla." The current station house was built in 1890, and at some point was converted into a restaurant.[2][3]
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 which made it part of Metro-North in 1983.
Prior to Metro-North Railroad's electrification of this section of the Harlem Line in 1984, service at the station had been greatly reduced compared to other similar stations. In the late 1970s, weekday service was about half that of most other stations north of North White Plains, and weekend service was limited to a flag stop for six trains.[4] By 1990, service had been restored to fourteen trains a day on weekends, the equivalent of that at other similar stations.
On February 3, 2015, theValhalla train crash occurred north of the station, in which a Metro-North train crashed into a Mercedes-Benz SUV[5] at Commerce Street near theTaconic State Parkway. The crash caused six deaths and at least 15 injuries, including seven serious injuries.[6]
The station has one six-car-long high-levelisland platform serving trains in both directions.[7]: 11
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