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The Melrose (also known as Melrose – East 162nd Street) Metro-North Railroad station serves the residents of the Melrose section of the Bronx via the Harlem Line. It is from Grand Central Terminal and is located in an open cut beneath Park Avenue at its intersection with East 162nd Street. Service at Melrose is limited; trains stop approximately every half-hour during rush hours and every two hours all other times. This station is the first/last station in the Zone 2 Metro-North fare zone, and is the first/last station of the CityTicket inter-city ticket zone. When Melrose station was originally built by the New York Central Railroad in the late-19th Century, it contained a station house as a bridge over all four tracks, with two island platforms. Similar structures were built for the former Morrisania Station, as well as Tremont Station.〔(Tour of the Harlem Line - Melrose )〕〔(Melrose Station, in the late 1800′s )〕 The station is located just south of a former wye with the northern terminus of the former Port Morris Branch, and was renovated, with the northbound platform moved out from underneath the overpass to its current location, circa 2006. In 2012, Melrose residents expressed concern regarding the station; residents would like to see more frequent service, but track and capacity limitations hinder the amount of service available for the stop. Other concerns regarded the lack of handicap access, and the past closure of the main entrance to the stop. The main entrance was closed when the community was at the height of its turmoil, but as the community has regained its footing the desire to have the station open to the primary commercial street, 161st Street, has grown. ==Platforms and tracks== , The station has two high-level side platforms each two cars long reached by stairway from East 162nd Street. When trains stop at this station, normally the front two open cars receive and discharge passengers. The west platform, generally used by southbound trains, is underneath East 162nd Street and the New York City Housing Authority's Morrisania Air Rights public housing project. The east platform, generally used by northbound trains, is offset from the other and is not underneath those structures. Both platforms have a staircase going up to the East 162nd Street overpass above the station. The Harlem Line has four tracks here. The two inner tracks, not next to either platform, are used by express trains. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Melrose (Metro-North station)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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