{{Short description|Train station in Whitehall, New York, US}} {{distinguish|Leeds Whitehall railway station|Whitehall Street-South Ferry (BMT Broadway Line)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Use American English|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox station | style = Amtrak | name = Whitehall, NY | image = Whitehall station - July 2017.jpg | image_caption = Whitehall station in July 2017 | address = 154 Main Street | borough = Whitehall, New York | country = United States | coordinates = {{coord|43.5558|-73.4033|type:railwaystation_region:US-NY|display=inline,title}} | line = Canadian Subdivision | owned = Amtrak | platform = 1 side platform | tracks = 1 | connections = | parking = | bicycle = | accessible = Yes | code = {{Amtrak code|WHL}} | opened = | rebuilt = April–November 14, 1994<ref name=1994start>{{cite news |last1=Marchette |first1=Darlene |title=Work on New Whitehall Amtrak Station Finally Begins |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35173523/whitehall_tsation_april_4_1994/ |accessdate=August 22, 2019 |work=The Post-Star |date=April 4, 1994 |location=Glens Falls, New York |pages=7-[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35173533/whitehall_station_april_4_1994_part_2/ 8]|via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}</ref><ref name=1994end>{{cite news |last1=Blow |first1=David |title=New Train Station Opens in Whitehall |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35173485/whitehall_station_november_15_1994/ |accessdate=August 22, 2019 |work=The Post-Star |date=November 15, 1994 |via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}</ref><br>2017 | years1 = April 30, 1971 | events1 = Delaware and Hudson Railroad service ends<ref>{{cite news |last1=Metivier |first1=Don A. |title=Hundreds Greet Amtrak's Arrival |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/33185016/amtrak_fort_edward_june_10_1972/ |accessdate=June 23, 2019 |work=The Post-Star |date=June 10, 1972 |location=Glens Falls, New York |pages=1, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/33184999/amtrak_el_june_10_1972_part_2/ 13]|via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}</ref> | years2 = August 6, 1974 | events2 = Amtrak service begins<ref>{{cite news |title=Rail Bond Issue Campaign Begins |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/33185232/amtrak_adirondack_august_5_1974/ |accessdate=June 23, 2019 |work=The Daily Messenger |date=August 5, 1974 |location=Canandaigua, New York |page=2|via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}</ref> | mpassengers = {{rail pass box|system=Amtrak|passengers={{Amtrak ridership|Whitehall}}{{Amtrak ridership|citationNY}}|pass_year={{Amtrak ridership|date}}}} | services = {{Adjacent stations|system=Amtrak|line=Adirondack|left=Ticonderoga|right=Fort Edward}} | other_services_header = Former services | other_services_collapsible = yes | other_services = {{Adjacent stations|system=Delaware and Hudson Railway |line1=Main|left1=Dresden|right1=Comstock |line2=Whitehall-Rutland|left2=Fair Haven }} | mapframe = yes | mapframe-marker-color = #{{rcr|Amtrak}} }}
'''Whitehall station''' is an Amtrak intercity train station in the village of Whitehall, New York. It is served by the ''Adirondack''. It has one low-level side platform with a small shelter on the east side of the track.
==History== The Saratoga and Washington Railroad opened from Saratoga Springs, New York to Gansevoort on August 15, 1848, and on to Whitehall on December 10.<ref name=icc>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3MxDAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA750 |title=Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Reports and Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States |volume=116 |year=1921 |pages=712, 749–751 |publisher=United States Interstate Commerce Commission}}</ref> The original terminus was just north of the village center at a dock on the Poultney River - the southern tip of Lake Champlain - thus establishing the railroad as a competitor to the Champlain Canal. A {{convert|1|mile|adj=on}} extension north to Lake Station on October 1, 1851 eliminated the need for ships to round a dangerous bend in the river.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lclt.org/whitehall-cliffs/ |title=Whitehall Cliffs: A Historic Landscape |date=24 May 2017 |publisher=Lake Champlain Land Trust}}</ref><ref name=icc /> thumb|left|Whitehall station in July 1975 On October 1, 1850, the railroad opened a branch from just south of Whitehall to the Vermont state line near Fair Haven.<ref name=icc /><ref name=nne /> Along with its Vermont subsidiary the Rutland and Whitehall Railroad (opened on November 1) and the Rutland and Washington Railroad (opened several weeks prior), this established a through rail route between Albany, New York and Rutland, Vermont.<ref name=icc /><ref name=nne>{{cite book |title=The Rail Lines of Northern New England |last=Lindsell |first=Robert M. |publisher=Branch Line Press |year=2000 |isbn=0942147065 |pages=36, 37}}</ref> The railroad built a brick freight house and station at the junction in 1850.<ref name=great>{{cite web |url=http://www.greatamericanstations.com/stations/whitehall-ny-whl/ |title=Whitehall, New York (WHL) |publisher=Amtrak |work=Great American Stations}}</ref>
After a "complicated series of bankruptcies, reorganizations, leases, and sales", the railroads were consolidated under the Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad in 1865, which in turn became part of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad (D&H) on May 1, 1871.<ref name=nne /> D&H subsidiary New York and Canada Railroad opened from Lake Station to Rouses Point (where the Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad connected to Montreal) on December 1, 1875, eliminating the need for Lake Station as a steamship terminal.<ref name=icc /> The D&H built a new station and freight house at Whitehall in 1892-93.<ref name=great />
In 1932, the D&H realigned its mainline through Whitehall, with a short tunnel under the village center. The relocated tracks were slightly farther from the station, and a staircase connected the platform to the building.<ref name=great /> Passenger service on the Whitehall Branch to Rutland ended on June 24, 1934.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107375149/rutland-daily-herald/ |title=D. & H. To Suspend Passenger Trains To And From City |newspaper=Rutland Daily Herald |date=May 26, 1934 |page=1 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107375100/the-enterprise-and-vermonter/ |title=Plan New Bus Lines |newspaper=The Enterprise and Vermonter |date=June 15, 1934 |page=7 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Passenger service to Whitehall ended on April 30, 1971, as Amtrak did not continue D&H passenger service when it took over intercity passenger trains the next day.
Service resumed with the introduction of the ''Adirondack'' on August 5, 1974.<ref>{{cite news |title=Montreal Train Run Commences Today |newspaper=Schenectady Gazette |date=August 5, 1974 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=T3chAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Z4kFAAAAIBAJ&pg=851,907778 |via=Google News}}</ref> The former station building was demolished by intentional burning on April 28, 1987.<ref>{{cite news |last1=McIntire |first1=Sandy |title=Firefighters Burn Whitehall RR Station |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35176897/whitehall_station_april_29_1987/ |accessdate=August 22, 2019 |work=The Post-Star |date=April 29, 1987 |location=Glens Falls, New York |page=9|via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}</ref> The former freight house is in use by a local business.<!--based on Great American Stations, which doesn't quite have the correct narrative--> Construction on a new Amtrak station in the village center began in April 1994 and was completed that November 14.<ref name=1994start /><ref name=1994end /> Amtrak began operating the ''Ethan Allen Express'' over the Whitehall Branch on December 2, 1996; because the 1994-built station is north of the junction, the ''Ethan Allen Express'' does not stop at Whitehall.<ref name="fun">{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/19/sports/train-trip-to-vermont-offers-some-of-the-fun.html |title=Train Trip to Vermont Offers Some of the Fun |last=Lloyd |first=Barbara |date=December 19, 1996 |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist|30em}}
== External links == {{commons category}} {{Amtrak web|WHL|Whitehall, NY}}
{{Amtrak New York stations}}
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