History
Rail service in Williams Bridge can be traced as far back as 1842 with the establishement of the New York and Harlem Railroad, which became part of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad in 1864 and eventually taken over by the New York Central Railroad. Williams Bridge Station itself, which was originally built sometime in the 19th Century, was at one time in close proximity to the 210th Street – Williamsbridge elevated station of the IRT Third Avenue Line. In fact, the line itself used to curve from Webster Avenue over Gun Hill Road before terminating at Gun Hill Road station on the IRT White Plains Road Line to the east. Because of this, the Gun Hill Road bridge over the Harlem Line was a two-level bridge until the Third Avenue Line was abandoned in 1973.
As with many NYCRR stations in the Bronx, the station became a Penn Central station once the NYC & Pennsylvania Railroads merged in 1968, and eventually became part of the MTA's Metro-North Railroad.
Read more about this topic: Williams Bridge (Metro-North Station)
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