Manhattan Transfer (train station)
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 Postcard around 1911
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| Data | |
| Operating point type | Passenger station |
| Location in the network | Touch station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 4th |
| opening | November 27, 1910 |
| Conveyance | 1937 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Harrison (New Jersey) |
| State | New Jersey |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 40 ° 44 ′ 31 ″ N , 74 ° 8 ′ 38 ″ W |
| Railway lines | |
| List of train stations in the United States | |
Manhattan Transfer was a transfer station located west of New York City in the state of New Jersey on the main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR), which runs along the east coast of the USA and is now part of the Northeast Corridor . The station was in operation from 1910 to 1937. and as a special feature had no pedestrian access so that it could only be reached by trains.
history
The station was built as part of the project called New York Tunnel Extension , which gave the PRR direct access to Manhattan with a tunnel under the Hudson River . Since the tunnel could only be driven with electric locomotives due to the danger of smoke being covered up , a station had to be created at which the long-distance trains in the direction of New York Pennsylvania Station stopped to exchange the steam locomotive for an electric locomotive.
The initially after its location in Harrison as Harrison Interchange Yard designated station was opened on 27 November 1910th The station consisted of two outer platforms on each side of the main line. When the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad (H&M), today's PATH , was built, it laid another track on each side of the PRR line at Manhattan Transfer. This enabled PRR travelers to switch to the H&M trains and reach Lower Manhattan directly . This extension opened on October 1, 1911.
From 1933 the line was also electrified to the south, so that the additional stop was only necessary to change to the H&M. After the relocation of the H&M rail line to the new Pennsylvania Station in Newark on June 20, 1937 , Manhattan Transfer was closed. Since then, passengers have been changing trains in Newark to get to Manhattan.
Both the important novel Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos from 1925 and the American vocal group The Manhattan Transfer are named after the train station.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Manhattan Transfer Station. In: structurae. Retrieved February 23, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Paula Geyh: Cities, Citizens, and Technologies: Urban Life and postmodernity . Routledge, 2009, ISBN 978-1-135-85220-7 , pp. 31 ( google.ch [accessed on February 23, 2020]).
- ^ Michael C. Duffy: Electric Railways: 1880-1990 . IET, 2003, ISBN 978-0-85296-805-5 , pp. 87 ( google.ch [accessed on February 23, 2020]).
- ^ Charles W. Raymond: The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. In: The Project Gutenberg. Retrieved February 24, 2020 .