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View south along track from the platform |
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| Address | Market Street & Mill Street Dover Plains, New York, 12522 |
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| Connections | Dutchess County LOOP: D | ||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 9 | ||||||||||||||
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The Dover Plains Metro-North Railroad station serves the residents of Dover Plains, New York via the Harlem Line. Trains leave for New York City every two hours, and about every 30 minutes during rush hour. It is 76.5 miles (123 km) from Grand Central Terminal and travel time to Grand Central is approximately two hours, two minutes.
The 7.5-mile (12 km) distance from Dover Plains to Harlem Valley – Wingdale, the next station to the south, is the longest between two stations on the Harlem Line.
The Ticket Agent/Office was closed in September 1981.
This station has one four-car-long high-level side platform to the west of the track. The Harlem Line has one track at this location.
Dover Plains was a terminal station from the beginning days of the New York Central Railroad until 2000. Besides passenger service, freight service also originated and stopped at this location, in both directions north and south.