Some stations, such as Cannondale are contributing properties to historic districts on NRHP. The Danbury Branch, Waterbury Branch, and Port Jervis Lines stop at platforms just short of former stations that are listed on NRHP. The New Haven Line has been terminating northeast of the historic New Haven Union Station at State Street station since 2002. Four of the northern termini of each line contains stations that are on NRHP, but the only one that serves Metro-North trains is Poughkeepsie station. The majority of protected stations are on the New Haven Line, including two of the three branches. Historical preservation of stations ĭozens of active stations that serve Metro-North are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the most notable of which is Grand Central Terminal which is also a National Historic Landmark and a New York City Landmark.

Stations on lines on the west side of the Hudson River were originally part of Erie Railroad which was merged into the Erie Lackawanna Railroad in 1960. Stations on the east side of the Hudson River were originally part of either New York Central Railroad or New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, both of which became part of Penn Central Railroad in 19 respectively. The main concourse of Grand Central Terminal, a National Historic Landmark and New York City Landmark.Īs with many commuter railroad systems of the late-20th Century in the United States, the stations exist along lines that were inherited from other railroads of the 19th and early 20th Centuries.

Metro north hudson line stops