Erie Railroad Station
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Team Smokey
N 41° 22.341 W 074° 41.490
18T E 525798 N 4580138
The Erie Railroad Station
Waymark Code: WM1R3H
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 06/28/2007
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member TheBeanTeam
Views: 68

This is the Erie Railroad Station (a.k.a. The Erie Depot) located at the corner of Jersey Avenue and Fowler Street in Port Jervis, NY.

The following taken from Wikipedia

It was built in 1892 as a passenger station for the Erie Railroad by Grattan & Jennings in a Queen Anne style. For many years it was the busiest passenger station on the railroad's Delaware Branch, owing to Port Jervis's position on the Delaware River near where New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania converge. The decline in passenger rail traffic in the mid-20th century eventually led the railroad to end all passenger service between Port Jervis and Binghamton in 1970. Commuter service to Hoboken was taken over by the MTA's Metro-North Railroad shortly thereafter. Metro-North chose not to use the old station for what it called the Port Jervis Line, electing instead to build a minimalist station of its own, consisting of a parking lot, shelter and street-level concrete platform several hundred feet further down the tracks. The old building began to decline, as the city itself did with the absence of the railroad, until it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Since then it has been renovated and today houses several small shops on the street side.
Is the station/depot currently used for railroad purposes?: No

Is the station/depot open to the public?: Yes

If the station/depot is not being used for railroad purposes, what is it currently used for?:
The building currently houses several small shops.


What rail lines does/did the station/depot serve?: The Erie Railroad

Station/Depot Web Site: Not listed

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