Valhalla (Metro-North station)

Valhalla
Northbound view of Valhalla station from the southbound side of the platform.
Location	2 Cleveland Street Valhalla, NY 10595
Coordinates	41°04′24″N 73°46′22″W / 41.0732°N 73.7729°W / 41.0732; -73.7729Coordinates: 41°04′24″N 73°46′22″W / 41.0732°N 73.7729°W / 41.0732; -73.7729
Line(s)	Harlem Line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Bee-Line Bus System: 6
Construction
Parking	191 spaces
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	5
History
Opened	1890
Electrified	1984 700V (DC) third rail
Traffic
Passengers (2006)	73,320  0%
Services
Preceding station   Metro-North Railroad   Following station North White Plains toward Grand Central Harlem Line Mount Pleasant toward Wassaic Kensico Cemetery (closed 1984) toward Wassaic   Former services   New York Central Railroad North White Plains toward New York City Harlem Division Kensico Cemetery toward Chatham

The Valhalla Metro-North Railroad station serves the residents of Valhalla, New York, via the Harlem Line. Trains leave or arrive approximately every 20 minutes during peak periods, hourly otherwise, to Mount Kisco, Southeast or Grand Central Terminal. It is 25.5 miles (41.0 km) from Grand Central Terminal and the average travel time to Grand Central is 41 minutes.

The station is popular with commuters from the interior of northern Westchester County given its location at the foot of the Taconic State Parkway.

This station is the northernmost station in the Zone 5 Metro-North fare zone.

Rail service in Valhalla can be traced as far back as 1846, with the establishment of the New York and Harlem Railroad, which installed a station named "Davis Brook," but by 1851 the name had been changed to "Kensico." The NY&H became part of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad in 1864 and eventually taken over by the New York Central Railroad. By the late-1880s Kensico and the rail line that ran through it were relocated to make way for the Kensico Reservoir despite protests from the community lasting for the rest of the century, and the community that replaced it was named "Valhalla." The current station house was built in 1890, and at some point was converted into a restaurant.

As with most 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 which made it part of Metro-North in 1983.