This Ulster and Delaware

station Station may refer to: Agriculture * Station (Australian agriculture), a large Australian landholding used for livestock production * Station (New Zealand agriculture), a large New Zealand farm used for grazing by sheep and cattle ** Cattle statio ...

, branch MP 9.8, was at the summit of a grade that went to the

Stony Clove Notch Stony Clove Notch is a narrow pass, roughly 2,220 feet (677 m) in elevation located in the Town of Hunter in Greene County, New York, deep in the Catskill Mountains. It is traversed by New York State Route 214, although in the past the Ulster ...

, where the Stony Clove Valley narrowed and was but a few yards wide. It was a flagstop, where people would have to signal a

train A train (from Old French , from Latin">-4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ... , from Latin , "to pull, to draw") is a series of connected vehicles th ...

to stop for them. This station never made much business, and was immediately taken out of service when the

New York Central The New York Central Railroad was a railroad primarily operating in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The railroad primarily connected greater New York and Boston in the east with Chicago and St. Louis in the Midw ...

took over the U&D on February 1, 1932. It was also a house, and a U&D employee lived there who would walk from Edgewood station to Kaaterskill Junction station to check for fires.

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Ulster and Delaware Railroad Historical Society map
Railway stations in the Catskill Mountains Former Ulster and Delaware Railroad stations Railway stations in Greene County, New York Former railway stations in New York (state) Railway stations in the United States closed in 1940 1940 disestablishments in New York (state) {{NewYork-railstation-stub