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Scarsdale railroad station
Location	1 Depot Place, Scarsdale, New York
Line(s)	Harlem Line
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	Bee-Line Bus System: 63, 64, 65, 66
Construction
Parking	35 spaces
Other information
Fare zone	4
History
Opened	December 1, 1844
Rebuilt	1904 (NYC), 2007 (MNRR)
Electrified	700V (DC) third rail
Traffic
Passengers (2007)	1.219 million  0%
Services
Preceding station Metro-North Following station Crestwood towards Grand Central Harlem Line Hartsdale towards North White Plains
Former services
Preceding station New York Central Railroad Following station Crestwood toward New York Harlem Division Hartsdale toward Chatham
Scarsdale Railroad Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Scarsdale, New York, USA
Built	1902
Architect	Nichols, Grant
Architectural style	Tudor Revival
NRHP reference No.	00000837
Added to NRHP	July 27, 2000

The Scarsdale station is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line, located in Scarsdale, New York. It is 19 miles (31 km) from Grand Central Terminal, and the average travel time varies between 30 and 45 minutes (depending on if a train is express or local). Scarsdale is the southernmost station on the two-track section of the Harlem Line; a third track begins to the south.

Scarsdale is the second busiest Metro-North station in Westchester County, after White Plains. It is the southernmost station in the Zone 4 Metro-North fare zone. As of August 2006, weekday commuter ridership was 4,080, and there are 919 parking spots.

History

Interior

The New York and Harlem Railroad laid tracks through Scarsdale during the 1840s, and established a station in Scarsdale as far back as 1846. The existing station house was built by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad in 1904 (although some evidence dates it back to 1902) in the Tudor Revival style. As with the rest of the Harlem Line, the merger of New York Central with Pennsylvania Railroad in 1968 transformed the station into a Penn Central Railroad station. Penn Central's continuous financial despair throughout the 1970s forced them to turn over their commuter service to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and it officially became part of Metro-North in 1983. The station has been on the National Register of Historic Places since the year 2000, and faced a restoration project in 2007.

Station layout

This station has two high-level side platforms, which are 12 cars long.

M	Mezzanine	Crossover between platforms
P Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Track 2	←      Harlem Line toward Grand Central (Crestwood)
	Track 1	←      Harlem Line toward North White Plains (Hartsdale) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Street level	Exit/entrance, parking, buses